Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 3/9] sit: allow encapsulated IPv6 traffic to be delivered locally

[Ignat Korchagin]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:50 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:12:52 -0500 Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit ed6ae5ca437d9d238117d90e95f7f2cc27da1b31 ]
> >
> > While experimenting with FOU encapsulation Amir noticed that encapsulated IPv6
> > traffic fails to be delivered, if the peer IP address is configured locally.
>
> Unless Ignat and Amir need it I'd vote for not backporting this to LTS.
> This patch is firmly in the "this configuration was never supported"
> category. 5.15 and 5.16 are probably fine.

We planned to use it on 5.15 and onwards. Not backporting to 5.10 is
fine for us.