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Re: [PATCH 3.4.106] ipvs: rerouting to local clients is not needed anymo

To: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.4.106] ipvs: rerouting to local clients is not needed anymore
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:32:50 +0100
On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 09:23:20AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:56:12AM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > commit f5a41847acc5 ("ipvs: move ip_route_me_harder for ICMP")
> > from 2.6.37 introduced ip_route_me_harder() call for responses to
> > local clients, so that we can provide valid rt_src after SNAT.
> > It was used by TCP to provide valid daddr for ip_send_reply().
> > After commit 0a5ebb8000c5 ("ipv4: Pass explicit daddr arg to
> > ip_send_reply()." from 3.0 this rerouting is not needed anymore
> > and should be avoided, especially in LOCAL_IN.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Pablo, could you guide this into stable 3.4 ?

Also added to my queue, you'll be Cc'ed by when I'll pass this to
-stable.

Thanks Julian and Simon
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