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authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>2012-08-08 21:53:36 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-08-09 16:18:07 -0700
commit1fb9489bf190ce2b3fc03891f3de4b2d30600e28 (patch)
treeda4e17036949e72ae0b1f0fc3b6b31557de18353 /net/ipv6/route.c
parentaa79e66eee5d525e2fcbd2a5fcb87ae3dd4aa9e9 (diff)
net: Loopback ifindex is constant now
As pointed out, there are places, that access net->loopback_dev->ifindex and after ifindex generation is made per-net this value becomes constant equals 1. So go ahead and introduce the LOOPBACK_IFINDEX constant and use it where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/route.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/route.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 8e80fd27910..0ddf2d132e7 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ struct dst_entry * ip6_route_output(struct net *net, const struct sock *sk,
{
int flags = 0;
- fl6->flowi6_iif = net->loopback_dev->ifindex;
+ fl6->flowi6_iif = LOOPBACK_IFINDEX;
if ((sk && sk->sk_bound_dev_if) || rt6_need_strict(&fl6->daddr))
flags |= RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE;