Re: [PATCH] Networking: send-to-self [link to non-broken patch this

[kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello!

> Think about this:  Suppose you are connecting to a listening socket that has 
> been
> bound to a device.  That creates the the temporary socket structure
> on the receive side,

That does _not_. All transmits use listening socket structure.


> can get routed based on the parent's bound_dev_if if my assumption here is
> not correct.

Find function tcp_v4_send_synack(), then tcp_v4_route_req() and derive
that your modifications have exactly zero impact on it,
sk->bound_dev_if is setup and used exactly like it was used before.

Alexey