iproute: properly support high routing table IDs
authorJo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:00:37 +0000 (18:00 +0200)
committerJo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:23:06 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
commit8badcba229b0ba3d469934f4315b736b0c712fbd
treec1a7658dba588d428abfcbbfd8caf3c319c5fde3
parent864b2d113ad0815c2444575014e7cf51498944db
iproute: properly support high routing table IDs

The Linux kernel uses two distinct fields to denote the routing table ID in
use by network routes; the 8 bit `rtm_table` member of `struct rtmsg` and the
32 bit `RTA_TABLE` netlink attribute.

If a routing table ID is larger than 255, the `RT_TABLE` attribute must be used
and the `rtm_table` field has to be set to the special `RT_TABLE_UNSPEC` value.

This commit adds a patch which...
 - switches the *_n2a() and *_a2n() functions of rt_names.c to use dynamically
   sized, name-sorted arrays instead of fixed arrays limited to 1024 slots in
   order to support IDs up to 65535
 - adds proper handling of high table IDs to iprule.c and iproute.c when
   adding, removing and dumping ip rules and network routes

After this change, the Busybox ip applet fully supports IP rules with high ID
numbers, using the same logic as the full iproute2.

Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
package/utils/busybox/Makefile
package/utils/busybox/patches/020-networking-libiproute-fix-displaying-route-table-for.patch [deleted file]
package/utils/busybox/patches/303-ip-route-fix-high-table-ids.patch [new file with mode: 0644]