Re: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Wei Wang
2017-08-12T19:29:58Z

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:37 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/11/17 6:25 PM, Wei Wang wrote:
>> By "a patch to fix that" do you mean after your patch, for every rt6,
>> rt6->rt6i_idev will be the same as rt6->dst.dev?
>
> FIB entries should have them the same device with my patch.
>
> The copies done (ip6_rt_cache_alloc and ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc) will have to
> set dst.dev to loopback or VRF device for RTF_LOCAL routes; it's the
> only way to get local traffic to work and this is similar to what IPv4 does.

Got it. Thanks David.

Wei