From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon,  7 Aug 2017 08:44:15 -0700

> A missing piece to the VRF puzzle is the ability to bind sockets to
> devices enslaved to a VRF. This patch set adds the enslaved device
> index, sdif, to IPv4 and IPv6 socket lookups. The end result for users
> is the following scope options for services:
> 
> 1. "global" services - sockets not bound to any device
> 
>    Allows 1 service to work across all network interfaces with
>    connected sockets bound to the VRF the connection originates
>    (Requires net.ipv4.tcp_l3mdev_accept=1 for TCP and
>     net.ipv4.udp_l3mdev_accept=1 for UDP)
> 
> 2. "VRF" local services - sockets bound to a VRF
> 
>    Sockets work across all network interfaces enslaved to a VRF but
>    are limited to just the one VRF.
> 
> 3. "device" services - sockets bound to a specific network interface
> 
>    Service works only through the one specific interface.
> 
> v3
> - convert __inet_lookup_established in dccp_v4_err; missed in v2
> 
> v2
> - remove sk_lookup struct and add sdif as an argument to existing
>   functions
> 
> Changes since RFC:
> - no significant logic changes; mainly whitespace cleanups

Series applied, let's see if it builds this time :-)

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