On 5/15/19 11:28 AM, Wei Wang wrote:
> From: Wei Wang <wei...@google.com>
> Date: Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:25 AM
> To: David Ahern
> Cc: Wei Wang, David Miller, Linux Kernel Network Developers, Martin
> KaFai Lau, Mikael Magnusson, Eric Dumazet
>
>>>
>>> What about rt6_remove_exception_rt?
>>>
>>> You can add a 'cache' hook to ip/iproute.c to delete the cached routes
>>> and verify that it works. I seem to have misplaced my patch to do it.
>> I don't think rt6_remove_exception_rt() needs any change.
>> It is because it gets the route cache rt6_info as the input parameter,
>> not specific saddr or daddr from a flow or a packet.
>> It is guaranteed that the hash used in the exception table is
>> generated from rt6_info->rt6i_dst and rt6_info->rt6i_src.
>>
>> For the case where user tries to delete a cache route, ip6_route_del()
>> calls rt6_find_cached_rt() to find the cached route first. And
>> rt6_find_cached_rt() is taken care of to find the cached route
>> according to both passed in src addr and f6i->fib6_src.
>> So I think we are good here.
>>
>> From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, May 15, 2019 at 9:38 AM
>> To: Wei Wang, David Miller, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
>> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau, Wei Wang, Mikael Magnusson, Eric Dumazet
>>
>>> On 5/15/19 9:56 AM, David Ahern wrote:
>>>> You can add a 'cache' hook to ip/iproute.c to delete the cached routes
>>>> and verify that it works. I seem to have misplaced my patch to do it.
>>>
>>> found it.
>
> Thanks. I patched it to iproute2 and tried it.
> The route cache is removed by doing:
> ip netns exec a ./ip -6 route del fd01::c from fd00::a cache
>
you have to pass in a device. The first line in ip6_del_cached_rt:
if (cfg->fc_ifindex && rt->dst.dev->ifindex != cfg->fc_ifindex)
goto out;
'ip route get' is one way to check if it has been deleted. We really
need to add support for dumping exception routes.
