Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv6: Dump route exceptions too in rt6_dump_route()

From: Stefano Brivio <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 00:17:47 +0200

On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 21:44:58 +0000
Martin Lau <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > +	if (!(filter->flags & RTM_F_CLONED)) {
> > +		err = rt6_fill_node(net, arg->skb, rt, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0,
> > +				    RTM_NEWROUTE,
> > +				    NETLINK_CB(arg->cb->skb).portid,
> > +				    arg->cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, flags);
> > +		if (err)
> > +			return err;
> > +	} else {
> > +		flags |= NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	bucket = rcu_dereference(rt->rt6i_exception_bucket);
> > +	if (!bucket)
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < FIB6_EXCEPTION_BUCKET_SIZE; i++) {
> > +		hlist_for_each_entry(rt6_ex, &bucket->chain, hlist) {
> > +			if (rt6_check_expired(rt6_ex->rt6i))
> > +				continue;
> > +
> > +			err = rt6_fill_node(net, arg->skb, rt,
> > +					    &rt6_ex->rt6i->dst,
> > +					    NULL, NULL, 0, RTM_NEWROUTE,
> > +					    NETLINK_CB(arg->cb->skb).portid,
> > +					    arg->cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, flags);  
> Thanks for the patch.
> 
> A question on when rt6_fill_node() returns -EMSGSIZE while dumping the
> exception bucket here.  Where will the next inet6_dump_fib() start?

And thanks for reviewing.

It starts again from the same node, see fib6_dump_node(): w->leaf = rt;
where rt is the fib6_info where we failed dumping, so we won't skip
dumping any node.

This also means that to avoid sending duplicates in the case where at
least one rt6_fill_node() call goes through and one fails, we would
need to track the last bucket and entry sent, or, alternatively, to
make sure we can fit the whole node before dumping.

I don't think that can happen in practice, or at least I haven't found a
way to create enough valid exceptions for the same node.

Anyway, I guess that would be nicer, but the fix is going to be much
bigger, and I don't think we even have to guarantee that. I'd rather
take care of that as a follow-up. Any preferred solution by the way?

-- 
Stefano