Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: Allow the l3mdev to be a loopback

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:19:05 -0700

> On 9/19/18 5:56 AM, Mike Manning wrote:
>> From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@vyatta.att-mail.com>
>> 
>> There is no way currently for an IPv6 client connect using a loopback
>> address in a VRF, whereas for IPv4 the loopback address can be added:
>> 
>>     $ sudo ip addr add dev vrfred 127.0.0.1/8
>>     $ sudo ip -6 addr add ::1/128 dev vrfred
>>     RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address
>> 
>> So allow ::1 to be configured on an L3 master device. In order for
>> this to be usable ip_route_output_flags needs to not consider ::1 to
>> be a link scope address (since oif == l3mdev and so it would be
>> dropped), and ipv6_rcv needs to consider the l3mdev to be a loopback
>> device so that it doesn't drop the packets.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@vyatta.att-mail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@vyatta.att-mail.com>
>> ---
>>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c  | 1 +
>>  net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 3 ++-
>>  net/ipv6/route.c     | 3 ++-
>>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> 
> Been on my to-do list for a while. Thanks for the patch. This resolves,
> for example, a harmless error message from the 'host' command from
> bind9-host-9.10.3 which probes for dscp support via the loopback
> address. e.g.,
> 
> $ host www.google.com
> ../../../../lib/isc/unix/net.c:581: sendmsg() failed: Network is unreachable

Applied, thanks everyone.