Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 077/244] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Prevent ipv6 gateway with v4 route via replace and append

David Ahern
2019-05-22T19:39:03Z

On 5/22/19 1:23 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(+)

This patch is not needed for any release prior to 5.2.

IPv6 nexthops with an IPv4 route is a 5.2 feature.