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From: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, gpiez@web•de,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat•com>, Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi•bg>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:08:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506D8A4F.3020008@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349349926.16011.48.camel@edumazet-glaptop>



On 10/04/12 12:25, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 17:48 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>
>>
>> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 17:35 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 22:04 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 16:01 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>>> If you can find a way to more reliably trigger the case, that would
>>>>> help us immensely.
>>>>
>>>> I am building a KMEMCHECK kernel, as a last try before my night ;)
>>>
>>> This was a total disaster. KMEMCHECK dies horribly on my machine
>>>
>>> David, shouldnt we use a nh_rth_forward instead of a nh_rth_input in
>>> __mkroute_input() ?
>>>
>>> (And change rt_cache_route() as well ?)
>>>
>>> I am testing a patch right now.
>>
>
> OK so I implemented David idea and it seems to work.
>
> Testers are needed, thanks ! ;)
>

I've tested 3.6.0 with this patch applied and networking in a WinXP KVM 
client is now working fine. The patch applies cleanly to 3.6.0, so I 
assume the patch will be forwarded to stable in due course.

Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail•com>

> [PATCH] ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info
>
> commit d2d68ba9fe8 (ipv4: Cache input routes in fib_info nexthops.)
> introduced a regression for forwarding.
>
> This was hard to reproduce but the symptom was that packets were
> delivered to local host instead of being forwarded.
>
> David suggested to add fib_type to fib_info so that we dont
> inadvertently share same fib_info for different purposes.
>
> With help from Julian Anastasov who provided very helpful
> hints, reproduced here :
>
> <quote>
>          Can it be a problem related to fib_info reuse
> from different routes. For example, when local IP address
> is created for subnet we have:
>
> broadcast 192.168.0.255 dev DEV  proto kernel  scope link  src
> 192.168.0.1
> 192.168.0.0/24 dev DEV  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.1
> local 192.168.0.1 dev DEV  proto kernel  scope host  src 192.168.0.1
>
>          The "dev DEV  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.1" is
> a reused fib_info structure where we put cached routes.
> The result can be same fib_info for 192.168.0.255 and
> 192.168.0.0/24. RTN_BROADCAST is cached only for input
> routes. Incoming broadcast to 192.168.0.255 can be cached
> and can cause problems for traffic forwarded to 192.168.0.0/24.
> So, this patch should solve the problem because it
> separates the broadcast from unicast traffic.
>
>          And the ip_route_input_slow caching will work for
> local and broadcast input routes (above routes 1 and 3) just
> because they differ in scope and use different fib_info.
>
> </quote>
>
> Many thanks to Chris Clayton for his patience and help.
>
> Reported-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail•com>
> Bisected-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail•com>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat•com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>
> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi•bg>
> ---
>   include/net/ip_fib.h     |    1 +
>   net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c |    2 ++
>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/ip_fib.h b/include/net/ip_fib.h
> index 926142e..9497be1 100644
> --- a/include/net/ip_fib.h
> +++ b/include/net/ip_fib.h
> @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct fib_info {
>   	unsigned char		fib_dead;
>   	unsigned char		fib_protocol;
>   	unsigned char		fib_scope;
> +	unsigned char		fib_type;
>   	__be32			fib_prefsrc;
>   	u32			fib_priority;
>   	u32			*fib_metrics;
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
> index 3509065..2677530 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
> @@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ static struct fib_info *fib_find_info(const struct fib_info *nfi)
>   		    nfi->fib_scope == fi->fib_scope &&
>   		    nfi->fib_prefsrc == fi->fib_prefsrc &&
>   		    nfi->fib_priority == fi->fib_priority &&
> +		    nfi->fib_type == fi->fib_type &&
>   		    memcmp(nfi->fib_metrics, fi->fib_metrics,
>   			   sizeof(u32) * RTAX_MAX) == 0 &&
>   		    ((nfi->fib_flags ^ fi->fib_flags) & ~RTNH_F_DEAD) == 0 &&
> @@ -833,6 +834,7 @@ struct fib_info *fib_create_info(struct fib_config *cfg)
>   	fi->fib_flags = cfg->fc_flags;
>   	fi->fib_priority = cfg->fc_priority;
>   	fi->fib_prefsrc = cfg->fc_prefsrc;
> +	fi->fib_type = cfg->fc_type;
>
>   	fi->fib_nhs = nhs;
>   	change_nexthops(fi) {
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-04 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-17 15:44 Possible networking regression in 3.6.0 Chris Clayton
2012-09-18 14:21 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-18 14:31   ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-18 14:40     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-18 15:51       ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-19 15:26       ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-22  6:26         ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-27 11:50           ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-27 12:14             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 18:05               ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-27 21:03                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 21:17                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-28  6:53                     ` David Miller
2012-09-28  9:14                       ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-28  9:22                     ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-28 11:26                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-28 14:28                         ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-30 15:26                         ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-30 19:45                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01  8:36                             ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01  9:15                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 15:13                                 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 15:31                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 16:19                                     ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 16:37                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 18:28                                         ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 18:34                                     ` Captain Obvious
2012-10-01 19:21                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 19:55                                         ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 19:22                                       ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 19:34                                 ` Dave Jones
2012-10-01 20:01                                   ` David Miller
2012-10-01 20:04                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 15:27                                       ` Edivaldo de Araújo Pereira
2012-10-02 15:35                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 15:48                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 15:57                                           ` Dave Jones
2012-10-02 16:06                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 18:25                                           ` David Miller
2012-10-02 21:14                                             ` Alexander Duyck
2012-10-02 21:35                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 23:24                                           ` Julian Anastasov
2012-10-03  3:10                                             ` David Miller
2012-10-03 15:01                                               ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-03 20:57                                               ` Julian Anastasov
2012-10-03  7:28                                             ` [PATCH] udp: increment UDP_MIB_NOPORTS in mcast receive Eric Dumazet
2012-10-03 12:45                                               ` David Stevens
2012-10-03 13:15                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-03 14:09                                                   ` David Stevens
2012-10-03 15:29                                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-03 17:31                                                       ` David Stevens
2012-10-03 19:30                                                         ` David Miller
2012-10-03 17:39                                                     ` Rick Jones
2012-10-03  2:55                                           ` Possible networking regression in 3.6.0 David Miller
2012-10-04 11:25                                           ` [PATCH] ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info Eric Dumazet
2012-10-04 13:08                                             ` Chris Clayton [this message]
2012-10-04 13:32                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-04 18:14                                                 ` David Miller
2012-09-18 14:44     ` Possible networking regression in 3.6.0 Chris Clayton

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