Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Fixed source specific default route handling.

[David Miller]

From: Markus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 13:36:59 +0300

> If there are only IPv6 source specific default routes present, the
> host gets -ENETUNREACH on e.g. connect() because ip6_dst_lookup_tail
> calls ip6_route_output first, and given source address any, it fails,
> and ip6_route_get_saddr is never called.
> 
> The change is to use the ip6_route_get_saddr, even if the initial
> ip6_route_output fails, and then doing ip6_route_output _again_ after
> we have appropriate source address available.
> 
> Note that this is '99% fix' to the problem; a correct fix would be to
> do route lookups only within addrconf.c when picking a source address,
> and never call ip6_route_output before source address has been
> populated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@xxxxxx>

Applied, but would like to see the more complete fix at some
point.
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