Re: [PATCH net] ip6_gre: let collect_md ip6gretap send from the unspecified address

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

Date: Thu Oct 08 2026 - 19:40:58 EST


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Mon, 5 Oct 2026 22:12:27 +0300 you wrote:
> ip6gre_xmit_ipv6() drops an IPv6 packet whose source address equals the
> tunnel remote, to avoid a trivial tunneling loop. On a collect_md
> ip6gretap device t->parms.raddr is not the exit point: the outer
> destination comes from the per-packet tunnel metadata. Such devices are
> normally created without a remote, so raddr is ::, and the check never
> matches a real tunnel endpoint. It matches every frame sent from the
> unspecified address instead.
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [net] ip6_gre: let collect_md ip6gretap send from the unspecified address
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/f3f5d7ab19b5

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