Merge branch 'ipv6-RT_ONLINK-remove-prep'
Guillaume Nault says:
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ipv4: First steps toward removing RTO_ONLINK
RTO_ONLINK is a flag that allows to reduce the scope of route lookups.
It's stored in a normally unused bit of the ->flowi4_tos field, in
struct flowi4. However it has several problems:
* This bit is also used by ECN. Although ECN bits are supposed to be
cleared before doing a route lookup, it happened that some code
paths didn't properly sanitise their ->flowi4_tos. So this mechanism
is fragile and we had bugs in the past where ECN bits slipped in and
could end up being erroneously interpreted as RTO_ONLINK.
* A dscp_t type was recently introduced to ensure ECN bits are cleared
during route lookups. ->flowi4_tos is the most important structure
field to convert, but RTO_ONLINK prevents such conversion, as dscp_t
mandates that ECN bits (where RTO_ONLINK is stored) be zero.
Therefore we need to stop using RTO_ONLINK altogether. Fortunately
RTO_ONLINK isn't a necessity. Instead of passing a flag in ->flowi4_tos
to tell the route lookup function to restrict the scope, we can simply
initialise the scope correctly.
Patch 1 does some preparatory work: it stops resetting ->flowi4_scope
automatically before a route lookup, thus allowing callers to set their
desired scope without having to rely on the RTO_ONLINK flag.
Patch 2-3 convert a few code paths to avoid relying on RTO_ONLINK.
More conversions will have to take place before we can eventually
remove this flag.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>