From: Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com
[ Upstream commit 0c51e12e218f20b7d976158fdc18019627326f7a ]
In case user space sends a packet destined to a broadcast address when a matching broadcast route is not configured, the kernel will create a unicast neighbour entry that will never be resolved [1].
When the broadcast route is configured, the unicast neighbour entry will not be invalidated and continue to linger, resulting in packets being dropped.
Solve this by invalidating unresolved neighbour entries for broadcast addresses after routes for these addresses are internally configured by the kernel. This allows the kernel to create a broadcast neighbour entry following the next route lookup.
Another possible solution that is more generic but also more complex is to have the ARP code register a listener to the FIB notification chain and invalidate matching neighbour entries upon the addition of broadcast routes.
It is also possible to wave off the issue as a user space problem, but it seems a bit excessive to expect user space to be that intimately familiar with the inner workings of the FIB/neighbour kernel code.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/55a04a8f-56f3-f73c-2aea-2195923f09d1@huawei.c...
Reported-by: Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com Tested-by: Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- include/net/arp.h | 1 + net/ipv4/arp.c | 9 +++++++-- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 5 ++++- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/arp.h b/include/net/arp.h index c8f580a0e6b1..dc6e9dd3e1e6 100644 --- a/include/net/arp.h +++ b/include/net/arp.h @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ void arp_send(int type, int ptype, __be32 dest_ip, const unsigned char *src_hw, const unsigned char *th); int arp_mc_map(__be32 addr, u8 *haddr, struct net_device *dev, int dir); void arp_ifdown(struct net_device *dev); +int arp_invalidate(struct net_device *dev, __be32 ip, bool force);
struct sk_buff *arp_create(int type, int ptype, __be32 dest_ip, struct net_device *dev, __be32 src_ip, diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c index e90c89ef8c08..b18b2a3c54ad 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c @@ -1114,13 +1114,18 @@ static int arp_req_get(struct arpreq *r, struct net_device *dev) return err; }
-static int arp_invalidate(struct net_device *dev, __be32 ip) +int arp_invalidate(struct net_device *dev, __be32 ip, bool force) { struct neighbour *neigh = neigh_lookup(&arp_tbl, &ip, dev); int err = -ENXIO; struct neigh_table *tbl = &arp_tbl;
if (neigh) { + if ((neigh->nud_state & NUD_VALID) && !force) { + neigh_release(neigh); + return 0; + } + if (neigh->nud_state & ~NUD_NOARP) err = neigh_update(neigh, NULL, NUD_FAILED, NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE| @@ -1167,7 +1172,7 @@ static int arp_req_delete(struct net *net, struct arpreq *r, if (!dev) return -EINVAL; } - return arp_invalidate(dev, ip); + return arp_invalidate(dev, ip, true); }
/* diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c index 70e5e9e5d835..1885a2fbad86 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c @@ -917,9 +917,11 @@ void fib_add_ifaddr(struct in_ifaddr *ifa) return;
/* Add broadcast address, if it is explicitly assigned. */ - if (ifa->ifa_broadcast && ifa->ifa_broadcast != htonl(0xFFFFFFFF)) + if (ifa->ifa_broadcast && ifa->ifa_broadcast != htonl(0xFFFFFFFF)) { fib_magic(RTM_NEWROUTE, RTN_BROADCAST, ifa->ifa_broadcast, 32, prim, 0); + arp_invalidate(dev, ifa->ifa_broadcast, false); + }
if (!ipv4_is_zeronet(prefix) && !(ifa->ifa_flags & IFA_F_SECONDARY) && (prefix != addr || ifa->ifa_prefixlen < 32)) { @@ -935,6 +937,7 @@ void fib_add_ifaddr(struct in_ifaddr *ifa) prim, 0); fib_magic(RTM_NEWROUTE, RTN_BROADCAST, prefix | ~mask, 32, prim, 0); + arp_invalidate(dev, prefix | ~mask, false); } } }