On 5/15/19 6:03 PM, Wei Wang wrote: > Thanks Martin. > Changing __rt6_find_exception_xxx() might not be easy cause other > callers of this function does not really need to back off and use > another saddr. > And the validation of the result is a bit different for different callers. > What about add a new helper for the above 2 cases and just call that > from both places?
Since this needs to be backported to stable releases, I would say simplest patch for that is best. I have changes queued for this area once net-next opens; I can look at consolidating as part of that.
