Re: [PATCH net v4] ipv6: fib6_rules: flush route cache when rule is changed

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 01:01:24PM +0000, Lena Wang (王娜) wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-03-04 at 20:45 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
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> >  On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 14:39:46 +0000 Lena Wang (王娜) wrote:
> > > From: Shiming Cheng <shiming.cheng@mediatek.com>
> > > 
> > > When rule policy is changed, ipv6 socket cache is not refreshed.
> > > The sock's skb still uses a outdated route cache and was sent to
> > > a wrong interface.
> > > 
> > > To avoid this error we should update fib node's version when
> > > rule is changed. Then skb's route will be reroute checked as
> > > route cache version is already different with fib node version.
> > > The route cache is refreshed to match the latest rule.
> > 
> > Doesn't apply, please rebase on top of latest net/main.
> Hi Jakub,
> I use master branch to make this patch. And it seems same with
> main branch of kernel/git/netdev/net.git.
> 
> Could you tell me which branch should be used?
> 
> Thanks
> Lena

Hi Lena,

The primary branch is main these days.
If you are using master than it may well be stale.

For reference, the current HEAD commit is.

4daa873133d3 ("Merge tag 'mlx5-fixes-2024-03-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux")