kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6/ndisc.c, branch v5.18

ipv6: separate ndisc_ns_create() from ndisc_send_ns()

2022-02-21T12:13:45+00:00

This patch separate NS message allocation steps from ndisc_send_ns(), so it could be used in other places, like bonding, to allocate and send IPv6 NS message. Also export ndisc_send_skb() and ndisc_ns_create() for later bonding usage. Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Generate netlink notification when default IPv6 route preference changes

2022-02-14T11:15:37+00:00

Generate RTM_NEWROUTE netlink notification when the route preference changes on an existing kernel generated default route in response to RA messages. Currently netlink notifications are generated only when this route is added or deleted but not when the route preference changes, which can cause userspace routing application state to go out of sync with kernel. Signed-off-by: Kalash Nainwal Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ndisc: introduce ndisc_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter

2021-11-02T02:57:14+00:00

In most situations the neighbor discovery cache should be cleared on a NOCARRIER event which is currently done unconditionally. But for wireless roams the neighbor discovery cache can and should remain intact since the underlying network has not changed. This patch introduces a sysctl option ndisc_evict_nocarrier which can be disabled by a wireless supplicant during a roam. This allows packets to be sent after a roam immediately without having to wait for neighbor discovery. A user reported roughly a 1 second delay after a roam before packets could be sent out (note, on IPv4). This delay was due to the ARP cache being cleared. During testing of this same scenario using IPv6 no delay was noticed, but regardless there is no reason to clear the ndisc cache for wireless roams. Signed-off-by: James Prestwood Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: constify dev_addr passing

2021-10-13T16:40:46+00:00

In preparation for netdev->dev_addr being constant make all relevant arguments in ndisc constant. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: add IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU to expose mtu value

2021-08-28T00:29:18+00:00

The kernel provides a "/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf//mtu" file, which can temporarily record the mtu value of the last received RA message when the RA mtu value is lower than the interface mtu, but this proc has following limitations: (1) when the interface mtu (/sys/class/net//mtu) is updeated, mtu6 (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf//mtu) will be updated to the value of interface mtu; (2) mtu6 (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf//mtu) only affect ipv6 connection, and not affect ipv4. Therefore, when the mtu option is carried in the RA message, there will be a problem that the user sometimes cannot obtain RA mtu value correctly by reading mtu6. After this patch set, if a RA message carries the mtu option, you can send a netlink msg which nlmsg_type is RTM_GETLINK, and then by parsing the attribute of IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU to get the mtu value carried in the RA message received on the inet6 device. In addition, you can also get a link notification when ra_mtu is updated so it doesn't have to poll. In this way, if the MTU values that the device receives from the network in the PCO IPv4 and the RA IPv6 procedures are different, the user can obtain the correct ipv6 ra_mtu value and compare the value of ra_mtu and ipv4 mtu, then the device can use the lower MTU value for both IPv4 and IPv6. Signed-off-by: Rocco Yue Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210827150412.9267-1-rocco.yue@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement

2021-01-27T02:39:45+00:00

For IPv4, default route is learned via DHCPv4 and user is allowed to change metric using config etc/network/interfaces. But for IPv6, default route can be learned via RA, for which, currently a fixed metric value 1024 is used. Ideally, user should be able to configure metric on default route for IPv6 similar to IPv4. This patch adds sysctl for the same. Logs: For IPv4: Config in etc/network/interfaces: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp metric 4261413864 IPv4 Kernel Route Table: $ ip route list default via 172.21.47.1 dev eth0 metric 4261413864 FRR Table, if a static route is configured: [In real scenario, it is useful to prefer BGP learned default route over DHCPv4 default route.] Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP, O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, P - PIM, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP, T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP, > - selected route, * - FIB route S>* 0.0.0.0/0 [20/0] is directly connected, eth0, 00:00:03 K 0.0.0.0/0 [254/1000] via 172.21.47.1, eth0, 6d08h51m i.e. User can prefer Default Router learned via Routing Protocol in IPv4. Similar behavior is not possible for IPv6, without this fix. After fix [for IPv6]: sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric=1996489705 IP monitor: [When IPv6 RA is received] default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705 pref high Kernel IPv6 routing table $ ip -6 route list default via fe80::be16:65ff:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705 expires 21sec hoplimit 64 pref high FRR Table, if a static route is configured: [In real scenario, it is useful to prefer BGP learned default route over IPv6 RA default route.] Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIPng, O - OSPFv3, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, N - NHRP, T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP, > - selected route, * - FIB route S>* ::/0 [20/0] is directly connected, eth0, 00:00:06 K ::/0 [119/1001] via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e, eth0, 6d07h43m If the metric is changed later, the effect will be seen only when next IPv6 RA is received, because the default route must be fully controlled by RA msg. Below metric is changed from 1996489705 to 1996489704. $ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric=1996489704 net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric = 1996489704 IP monitor: [On next IPv6 RA msg, Kernel deletes prev route and installs new route with updated metric] Deleted default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705 expires 3sec hoplimit 64 pref high default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489704 pref high Signed-off-by: Praveen Chaudhary Signed-off-by: Zhenggen Xu Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210125214430.24079-1-pchaudhary@linkedin.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Exempt multicast addresses from five-second neighbor lifetime

2020-11-13T22:24:39+00:00

Commit 58956317c8de ("neighbor: Improve garbage collection") guarantees neighbour table entries a five-second lifetime. Processes which make heavy use of multicast can fill the neighour table with multicast addresses in five seconds. At that point, neighbour entries can't be GC-ed because they aren't five seconds old yet, the kernel log starts to fill up with "neighbor table overflow!" messages, and sends start to fail. This patch allows multicast addresses to be thrown out before they've lived out their five seconds. This makes room for non-multicast addresses and makes messages to all addresses more reliable in these circumstances. Fixes: 58956317c8de ("neighbor: Improve garbage collection") Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113015815.31397-1-jdike@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2020-05-02T00:02:27+00:00

Alexei Starovoitov says: ==================== pull-request: bpf-next 2020-05-01 (v2) The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree. We've added 61 non-merge commits during the last 6 day(s) which contain a total of 153 files changed, 6739 insertions(+), 3367 deletions(-). The main changes are: 1) pulled work.sysctl from vfs tree with sysctl bpf changes. 2) bpf_link observability, from Andrii. 3) BTF-defined map in map, from Andrii. 4) asan fixes for selftests, from Andrii. 5) Allow bpf_map_lookup_elem for SOCKMAP and SOCKHASH, from Jakub. 6) production cloudflare classifier as a selftes, from Lorenz. 7) bpf_ktime_get_*_ns() helper improvements, from Maciej. 8) unprivileged bpftool feature probe, from Quentin. 9) BPF_ENABLE_STATS command, from Song. 10) enable bpf_[gs]etsockopt() helpers for sock_ops progs, from Stanislav. 11) enable a bunch of common helpers for cg-device, sysctl, sockopt progs, from Stanislav. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv6: new arg skip_notify to ip6_rt_del

2020-04-28T19:50:37+00:00

Used in subsequent work to skip route delete notifications on nexthop deletes. Suggested-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

2020-04-27T06:07:40+00:00

Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit safer. As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers a lot of the changes are mechnical. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov Signed-off-by: Al Viro