IPv4 policy routing (and the ip command) allows to add a routing rule with 'local' type, however this did not work with IPv6. This patch implements the 'local' routing type by redirecting all such packets to the local IP stack. Signed-off-by: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 1473ee0..9491579 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -1174,6 +1174,8 @@ int ip6_route_add(struct fib6_config *cfg) if (addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST) rt->u.dst.input = ip6_mc_input; + else if (cfg->fc_flags & RTF_LOCAL) + rt->u.dst.input = ip6_input; else rt->u.dst.input = ip6_forward; @@ -1195,7 +1197,7 @@ int ip6_route_add(struct fib6_config *cfg) they would result in kernel looping; promote them to reject routes */ if ((cfg->fc_flags & RTF_REJECT) || - (dev && (dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) && !(addr_type&IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))) { + (((cfg->fc_flags & RTF_LOCAL) == 0) && (dev && (dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) && !(addr_type&IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK)))) { /* hold loopback dev/idev if we haven't done so. */ if (dev != net->loopback_dev) { if (dev) { @@ -2086,6 +2088,8 @@ static int rtm_to_fib6_config(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, if (rtm->rtm_type == RTN_UNREACHABLE) cfg->fc_flags |= RTF_REJECT; + else if (rtm->rtm_type == RTN_LOCAL) + cfg->fc_flags |= RTF_LOCAL; cfg->fc_nlinfo.pid = NETLINK_CB(skb).pid; cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh = nlh; -- 1.6.0.4