ipv4: fib: Notify about nexthop status changes

When a multipath route is hit the kernel doesn't consider nexthops that
are DEAD or LINKDOWN when IN_DEV_IGNORE_ROUTES_WITH_LINKDOWN is set.
Devices that offload multipath routes need to be made aware of nexthop
status changes. Otherwise, the device will keep forwarding packets to
non-functional nexthops.

Add the FIB_EVENT_NH_{ADD,DEL} events to the fib notification chain,
which notify capable devices when they should add or delete a nexthop
from their tables.

Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ip_fib.h b/include/net/ip_fib.h