From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 02:33:45 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ipv6: don't count addrconf generated routes against gc limit X-Git-Tag: next-20131212~112^2~28 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3300ef4bbb1f1e33ff0400e1e6cf7733d988f4f;p=karo-tx-linux.git ipv6: don't count addrconf generated routes against gc limit Brett Ciphery reported that new ipv6 addresses failed to get installed because the addrconf generated dsts where counted against the dst gc limit. We don't need to count those routes like we currently don't count administratively added routes. Because the max_addresses check enforces a limit on unbounded address generation first in case someone plays with router advertisments, we are still safe here. Reported-by: Brett Ciphery Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index ddb9d41c8eea..a0a48ac3403f 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -2166,12 +2166,10 @@ struct rt6_info *addrconf_dst_alloc(struct inet6_dev *idev, bool anycast) { struct net *net = dev_net(idev->dev); - struct rt6_info *rt = ip6_dst_alloc(net, net->loopback_dev, 0, NULL); - - if (!rt) { - net_warn_ratelimited("Maximum number of routes reached, consider increasing route/max_size\n"); + struct rt6_info *rt = ip6_dst_alloc(net, net->loopback_dev, + DST_NOCOUNT, NULL); + if (!rt) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - } in6_dev_hold(idev);