Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: Not to probe neighbourless routes

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Aug 28 2019 - 15:55:10 EST


From: <wang.yi59@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:50:08 +0800 (CST)

> We used an older version of the kernel, and found that configuring default
> route led to a lot of NS messages, which affected the real business.
>
> Although commit f547fac624be adds rate-limiting, there are still some
> unreasonable things.
>
> We have tested this change on CentOS 7.6 (3.10.0-957), whose rt6_probe()
> implementation is similar to the latest code. When remaking patch based on
> linux-5.3-rc5, a line of code was missed out with a mistack.

Therefore, you are not testing this patch on current kernels, so you are
sending a patch which is completely untested.

This is not appropriate nor accceptable.