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    ipv6: fix 'disable_policy' for fwd packets · ccd27f05
    Nicolas Dichtel authored
    The goal of commit df789fe7 ("ipv6: Provide ipv6 version of
    "disable_policy" sysctl") was to have the disable_policy from ipv4
    available on ipv6.
    However, it's not exactly the same mechanism. On IPv4, all packets coming
    from an interface, which has disable_policy set, bypass the policy check.
    For ipv6, this is done only for local packets, ie for packets destinated to
    an address configured on the incoming interface.
    
    Let's align ipv6 with ipv4 so that the 'disable_policy' sysctl has the same
    effect for both protocols.
    
    My first approach was to create a new kind of route cache entries, to be
    able to set DST_NOPOLICY without modifying routes. This would have added a
    lot of code. Because the local delivery path is already handled, I choose
    to focus on the forwarding path to minimize code churn.
    
    Fixes: df789fe7 ("ipv6: Provide ipv6 version of "disable_policy" sysctl")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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