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authorThomas Winter <Thomas.Winter@alliedtelesis.co.nz>2018-04-30 23:15:29 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-05-01 20:23:33 +0200
commitedd7ceb78296fb1574958991b6655c3c2cedf124 (patch)
tree77b37435ded8db11a3be72f83157d37b03bacef0 /net
parentethtool: fix a potential missing-check bug (diff)
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ipv6: Allow non-gateway ECMP for IPv6
It is valid to have static routes where the nexthop is an interface not an address such as tunnels. For IPv4 it was possible to use ECMP on these routes but not for IPv6. Signed-off-by: Thomas Winter <Thomas.Winter@alliedtelesis.co.nz> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
index deab2db6692e..3c97c29d4401 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -934,9 +934,6 @@ static int fib6_add_rt2node(struct fib6_node *fn, struct rt6_info *rt,
* list.
* Only static routes (which don't have flag
* RTF_EXPIRES) are used for ECMPv6.
- *
- * To avoid long list, we only had siblings if the
- * route have a gateway.
*/
if (rt_can_ecmp &&
rt6_qualify_for_ecmp(iter))