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net: use dst_confirm_neigh for UDP, RAW, ICMP, L2TP

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When same struct dst_entry can be used for many different
neighbours we can not use it for pending confirmations.

The datagram protocols can use MSG_CONFIRM to confirm the
neighbour. When used with MSG_PROBE we do not reach the
code where neighbour is confirmed, so we have to do the
same slow lookup by using the dst_confirm_neigh() helper.
When MSG_PROBE is not used, ip_append_data/ip6_append_data
will set the skb flag dst_pending_confirm.

Reported-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Fixes: 5110effee8 ("net: Do delayed neigh confirmation.")
Fixes: f2bb4bedf3 ("ipv4: Cache output routes in fib_info nexthops.")
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Julian Anastasov 2017-02-06 23:14:16 +02:00 • committed by David S. Miller
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