From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dsahern@kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dsahern@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] net: Fail route add with unsupported nexthop attribute
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:27:36 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190226.142736.1056480085548243192.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190226170004.4535-1-dsahern@kernel.org>
From: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:00:01 -0800
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>
> RTA_VIA was added for MPLS as a way of specifying a gateway from a
> different address family. IPv4 and IPv6 do not currently support RTA_VIA
> so using it leads to routes that are not what the user intended. Catch
> and fail - returning a proper error message.
>
> MPLS on the other hand does not support RTA_GATEWAY since it does not
> make sense to have a nexthop from the MPLS address family. Similarly,
> catch and fail - returning a proper error message.
Series applied and queued up for -stable.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-26 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-26 17:00 [PATCH net 0/3] net: Fail route add with unsupported nexthop attribute David Ahern
2019-02-26 17:00 ` [PATCH net 1/3] ipv4: Return error for RTA_VIA attribute David Ahern
2019-02-26 17:00 ` [PATCH net 2/3] ipv6: " David Ahern
2019-02-26 17:00 ` [PATCH net 3/3] mpls: Return error for RTA_GATEWAY attribute David Ahern
2019-02-26 22:27 ` David Miller [this message]
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