Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 095/317] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Prevent ipv6 gateway with v4 route via replace and append

Sasha Levin
2019-05-29T19:01:01Z

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:27:41PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>On 5/22/19 1:19 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 7973d9e76727aa42f0824f5569e96248a572d50b ]
>>
>> mlxsw currently does not support v6 gateways with v4 routes. Commit
>> 19a9d136f198 ("ipv4: Flag fib_info with a fib_nh using IPv6 gateway")
>> prevents a route from being added, but nothing stops the replace or
>> append. Add a catch for them too.
>> $ ip ro add 172.16.2.0/24 via 10.99.1.2
>> $ ip ro replace 172.16.2.0/24 via inet6 fe80::202:ff:fe00:b dev swp1s0
>> Error: mlxsw_spectrum: IPv6 gateway with IPv4 route is not supported.
>> $ ip ro append 172.16.2.0/24 via inet6 fe80::202:ff:fe00:b dev swp1s0
>> Error: mlxsw_spectrum: IPv6 gateway with IPv4 route is not supported.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>
>Not needed for 5.0. IPv6 nexthops with an IPv4 gateway is a 5.2 feature.

Dropped, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha