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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] net: evaluate net.conf.ipvX.all.ignore_routes_with_linkdown
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:15:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201019201518.4a48ef1a@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c23018cd-b382-7b0b-8166-71b5d04969c4@gmail.com>

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:56:36 -0600 David Ahern wrote:
> On 10/19/20 6:53 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 14:50:11 +0200 Vincent Bernat wrote:  
> >> Introduced in 0eeb075fad73, the "ignore_routes_with_linkdown" sysctl
> >> ignores a route whose interface is down. It is provided as a
> >> per-interface sysctl. However, while a "all" variant is exposed, it
> >> was a noop since it was never evaluated. We use the usual "or" logic
> >> for this kind of sysctls.  
> >   
> >> Without this patch, the two last lines would fail on H1 (the one using
> >> the "all" sysctl). With the patch, everything succeeds as expected.
> >>
> >> Also document the sysctl in `ip-sysctl.rst`.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 0eeb075fad73 ("net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down")
> >> Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.ch>  
> > 
> > I'm not hearing any objections, but I have two questions:
> >  - do you intend to merge it for 5.10 or 5.11? Because it has a fixes
> >    tag, yet it's marked for net-next. If we put it in 5.10 it may get
> >    pulled into stable immediately, knowing how things work lately.
> >  - we have other sysctls that use IN_DEV_CONF_GET(), 
> >    e.g. "proxy_arp_pvlan" should those also be converted?
> 
> The inconsistency with 'all' has been a major pain. In this case, I
> think it makes sense. Blindly changing all of them I suspect will lead
> to trouble. It is something reviewers should keep an eye on as sysctl
> settings get added.

Just saying.. if Vincent had the time to clean them all up _carefully_,
it'd be less likely we'll see another one added through copy & paste :)

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-20  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-17 12:50 [PATCH net-next v1] net: evaluate net.conf.ipvX.all.ignore_routes_with_linkdown Vincent Bernat
2020-10-20  0:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-20  2:56   ` David Ahern
2020-10-20  3:15     ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2020-10-20  6:20   ` Vincent Bernat
2020-10-20 22:55     ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-20  2:57 ` David Ahern

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