3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Kalash Nainwal kalash@arista.com
[ Upstream commit 97f0082a0592212fc15d4680f5a4d80f79a1687c ]
Set rtm_table to RT_TABLE_COMPAT for ipv6 for tables > 255 to keep legacy software happy. This is similar to what was done for ipv4 in commit 709772e6e065 ("net: Fix routing tables with id > 255 for legacy software").
Signed-off-by: Kalash Nainwal kalash@arista.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -2558,7 +2558,7 @@ static int rt6_fill_node(struct net *net table = rt->rt6i_table->tb6_id; else table = RT6_TABLE_UNSPEC; - rtm->rtm_table = table; + rtm->rtm_table = table < 256 ? table : RT_TABLE_COMPAT; if (nla_put_u32(skb, RTA_TABLE, table)) goto nla_put_failure; if (rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_REJECT) {