Commit a0b7d6d9 authored by Juliusz Chroboczek's avatar Juliusz Chroboczek

Reorder flush/install when changing a route over netlink.

As suggested by Dave Taht and Julien Cristau.
parent d56184b9
......@@ -790,33 +790,43 @@ kernel_route(int operation, const unsigned char *dest, unsigned short plen,
ipv4 = v4mapped(gate);
if(operation == ROUTE_MODIFY) {
int added;
if(newmetric == metric && memcmp(newgate, gate, 16) == 0 &&
newifindex == ifindex)
return 0;
/* It is better to add the new route before removing the old
one, to avoid losing packets. However, this only appears
to work if the metrics are different. */
if(newmetric != metric) {
one, to avoid losing packets. However, if the old and new
priorities are equal, this only works if the kernel supports
ECMP. So we first try the "right" order, and fall back on
the "wrong" order if it fails with EEXIST. */
rc = kernel_route(ROUTE_ADD, dest, plen,
newgate, newifindex, newmetric,
NULL, 0, 0);
if(rc < 0 && errno != EEXIST)
if(rc < 0) {
if(errno != EEXIST)
return rc;
rc = kernel_route(ROUTE_FLUSH, dest, plen,
gate, ifindex, metric,
NULL, 0, 0);
if(rc < 0 && (errno == ENOENT || errno == ESRCH))
rc = 1;
added = 0;
} else {
rc = kernel_route(ROUTE_FLUSH, dest, plen,
added = 1;
}
kernel_route(ROUTE_FLUSH, dest, plen,
gate, ifindex, metric,
NULL, 0, 0);
if(!added) {
rc = kernel_route(ROUTE_ADD, dest, plen,
newgate, newifindex, newmetric,
NULL, 0, 0);
if(rc < 0 && errno == EEXIST)
if(rc < 0) {
if(errno == EEXIST)
rc = 1;
/* In principle, we should try to re-install the flushed
route on failure to preserve. However, this should
hopefully not matter much in practice. */
}
}
return rc;
}
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