[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "ipv6: fix backtracking for throw routes" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipv6: fix backtracking for throw routes

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt19.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 34e2eda5e3f2ad44d9014b0f3abb286751e5783a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Barth <cyrus at openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:16:04 +0100
Subject: ipv6: fix backtracking for throw routes

[ Upstream commit 73ba57bfae4a1914f6a6dac71e3168dd900e00af ]

for throw routes to trigger evaluation of other policy rules
EAGAIN needs to be propagated up to fib_rules_lookup
similar to how its done for IPv4

A simple testcase for verification is:

ip -6 rule add lookup 33333 priority 33333
ip -6 route add throw 2001:db8::1
ip -6 route add 2001:db8::1 via fe80::1 dev wlan0 table 33333
ip route get 2001:db8::1

Signed-off-by: Steven Barth <cyrus at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c
index 3fd0a57..ab82a47 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ static int fib6_rule_action(struct fib_rule *rule, struct flowi *flp,
 				goto again;
 			flp6->saddr = saddr;
 		}
+		err = rt->dst.error;
 		goto out;
 	}
 again:
--
1.9.1