From 0d6a77079c475033cb622c07c5a880b392ef664e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:26:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: do not create neighbor entries for local delivery [ Upstream commit bd30e947207e2ea0ff2c08f5b4a03025ddce48d3 ] They will be created at output, if ever needed. This avoids creating empty neighbor entries when TPROXYing/Forwarding packets for addresses that are not even directly reachable. Note that IPv4 already handles it this way. No neighbor entries are created for local input. Tested by myself and customer. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/ipv6/route.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 19724bd3b10a..791c1fa879b2 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -819,7 +819,8 @@ restart: dst_hold(&rt->dst); read_unlock_bh(&table->tb6_lock); - if (!dst_get_neighbour_raw(&rt->dst) && !(rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_NONEXTHOP)) + if (!dst_get_neighbour_raw(&rt->dst) + && !(rt->rt6i_flags & (RTF_NONEXTHOP | RTF_LOCAL))) nrt = rt6_alloc_cow(rt, &fl6->daddr, &fl6->saddr); else if (!(rt->dst.flags & DST_HOST)) nrt = rt6_alloc_clone(rt, &fl6->daddr); -- 2.39.2