[NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications

The results of FIB rules lookups are cached in the routing cache
except for IPv6 as no such cache exists. So far, it was the
responsibility of the user to flush the cache after modifying any
rules. This lead to many false bug reports due to misunderstanding
of this concept.

This patch automatically flushes the route cache after inserting
or deleting a rule.

Thanks to Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> for catching a bug
in the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c b/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c
index b021b3440ca3..fe29b98d6c8f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c
@@ -298,6 +298,11 @@ static size_t fib4_rule_nlmsg_payload(struct fib_rule *rule)
                + nla_total_size(4); /* flow */
 }
 
+static void fib4_rule_flush_cache(void)
+{
+        rt_cache_flush(0);
+}
+
 static struct fib_rules_ops fib4_rules_ops = {
         .family         = AF_INET,
         .rule_size      = sizeof(struct fib4_rule),
@@ -309,6 +314,7 @@ static struct fib_rules_ops fib4_rules_ops = {
         .fill           = fib4_rule_fill,
         .default_pref   = fib4_rule_default_pref,
         .nlmsg_payload  = fib4_rule_nlmsg_payload,
+        .flush_cache    = fib4_rule_flush_cache,
         .nlgroup        = RTNLGRP_IPV4_RULE,
         .policy         = fib4_rule_policy,
         .rules_list     = &fib4_rules,