I'd like to implement a route caching mechanism that works with PF state keys and always pick newest more specific route when available.
In order to do so I need to get rid of the 'struct route'. The problem of the 'struct route' is that you have to pass it to ip{,6}_output() which might change it to something else. This model doesn't work well now that route lookups are done in ip{,6}_input(). So here's a diff that gets rid of 'struct route_in6' in IPv6 multicast forwarding. Note that we lose the single global cache entry. ok? Index: netinet6/ip6_mroute.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_mroute.c,v retrieving revision 1.103 diff -u -p -r1.103 ip6_mroute.c --- netinet6/ip6_mroute.c 15 Jun 2016 11:49:34 -0000 1.103 +++ netinet6/ip6_mroute.c 22 Aug 2016 10:50:22 -0000 @@ -1369,10 +1369,10 @@ phyint_send6(struct ip6_hdr *ip6, struct { struct mbuf *mb_copy; struct ifnet *ifp = mifp->m6_ifp; - int error = 0; - int s = splsoftnet(); - static struct route_in6 ro; - struct sockaddr_in6 *dst6; + struct sockaddr_in6 *dst6, sin6; + int s, error = 0; + + s = splsoftnet(); /* * Make a new reference to the packet; make sure that @@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ phyint_send6(struct ip6_hdr *ip6, struct /* XXX: ip6_output will override ip6->ip6_hlim */ im6o.im6o_hlim = ip6->ip6_hlim; im6o.im6o_loop = 1; - error = ip6_output(mb_copy, NULL, &ro, IPV6_FORWARDING, &im6o, + error = ip6_output(mb_copy, NULL, NULL, IPV6_FORWARDING, &im6o, NULL); splx(s); return; @@ -1414,12 +1414,13 @@ phyint_send6(struct ip6_hdr *ip6, struct * If we belong to the destination multicast group * on the outgoing interface, loop back a copy. */ - dst6 = &ro.ro_dst; + dst6 = &sin6; + memset(&sin6, 0, sizeof(sin6)); if (in6_hasmulti(&ip6->ip6_dst, ifp)) { dst6->sin6_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6); dst6->sin6_family = AF_INET6; dst6->sin6_addr = ip6->ip6_dst; - ip6_mloopback(ifp, m, &ro.ro_dst); + ip6_mloopback(ifp, m, dst6); } /* * Put the packet into the sending queue of the outgoing interface @@ -1429,8 +1430,7 @@ phyint_send6(struct ip6_hdr *ip6, struct dst6->sin6_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6); dst6->sin6_family = AF_INET6; dst6->sin6_addr = ip6->ip6_dst; - error = ifp->if_output(ifp, mb_copy, sin6tosa(&ro.ro_dst), - NULL); + error = ifp->if_output(ifp, mb_copy, sin6tosa(dst6), NULL); } else { if (ip6_mcast_pmtu) icmp6_error(mb_copy, ICMP6_PACKET_TOO_BIG, 0,