lwn.git/net/ipv4/arp.c, branch docs-5.17-3

arp: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS

2021-11-22T14:34:07+00:00

proc_create_net() and remove_proc_entry() already contain the case whether to define CONFIG_PROC_FS, so remove #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS. Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: arp: introduce arp_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter

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

This change introduces a new sysctl parameter, arp_evict_nocarrier. When set (default) the ARP cache will be cleared on a NOCARRIER event. This new option has been defaulted to '1' which maintains existing behavior. Clearing the ARP cache on NOCARRIER is relatively new, introduced by: commit 859bd2ef1fc1110a8031b967ee656c53a6260a76 Author: David Ahern Date: Thu Oct 11 20:33:49 2018 -0700 net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down The reason for this changes is to prevent the ARP cache from being cleared when a wireless device roams. Specifically for wireless roams the ARP cache should not be cleared because the underlying network has not changed. Clearing the ARP cache in this case can introduce significant delays sending out packets after a roam. A user reported such a situation here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CACsRnHWa47zpx3D1oDq9JYnZWniS8yBwW1h0WAVZ6vrbwL_S0w@mail.gmail.com/ After some investigation it was found that the kernel was holding onto packets until ARP finished which resulted in this 1 second delay. It was also found that the first ARP who-has was never responded to, which is actually what caues the delay. This change is more or less working around this behavior, but again, there is no reason to clear the cache on a roam anyways. As for the unanswered who-has, we know the packet made it OTA since it was seen while monitoring. Why it never received a response is unknown. In any case, since this is a problem on the AP side of things all that can be done is to work around it until it is solved. Some background on testing/reproducing the packet delay: Hardware: - 2 access points configured for Fast BSS Transition (Though I don't see why regular reassociation wouldn't have the same behavior) - Wireless station running IWD as supplicant - A device on network able to respond to pings (I used one of the APs) Procedure: - Connect to first AP - Ping once to establish an ARP entry - Start a tcpdump - Roam to second AP - Wait for operstate UP event, and note the timestamp - Start pinging Results: Below is the tcpdump after UP. It was recorded the interface went UP at 10:42:01.432875. 10:42:01.461871 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28 10:42:02.497976 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28 10:42:02.507162 ARP, Reply 192.168.254.1 is-at ac:86:74:55:b0:20, length 46 10:42:02.507185 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 1, length 64 10:42:02.507205 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 2, length 64 10:42:02.507212 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 3, length 64 10:42:02.507219 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 4, length 64 10:42:02.507225 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 5, length 64 10:42:02.507232 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 6, length 64 10:42:02.515373 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 1, length 64 10:42:02.521399 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 2, length 64 10:42:02.521612 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 3, length 64 10:42:02.521941 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 4, length 64 10:42:02.522419 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 5, length 64 10:42:02.523085 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 6, length 64 You can see the first ARP who-has went out very quickly after UP, but was never responded to. Nearly a second later the kernel retries and gets a response. Only then do the ping packets go out. If an ARP entry is manually added prior to UP (after the cache is cleared) it is seen that the first ping is never responded to, so its not only an issue with ARP but with data packets in general. As mentioned prior, the wireless interface was also monitored to verify the ping/ARP packet made it OTA which was observed to be true. Signed-off-by: James Prestwood Reviewed-by: David Ahern 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

inet: Use fallthrough;

2020-03-12T22:55:00+00:00

Convert the various uses of fallthrough comments to fallthrough; Done via script Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b56602fcf79f849e733e7b521bb0e17895d390fa.1582230379.git.joe@perches.com/ And by hand: net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c has a fallthrough comment outside of an #ifdef block that causes gcc to emit a warning if converted in-place. So move the new fallthrough; inside the containing #ifdef/#endif too. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down

2018-10-12T16:47:39+00:00

When a link's carrier goes down it could be a sign of the port changing networks. If the new network has overlapping addresses with the old one, then the kernel will continue trying to use neighbor entries established based on the old network until the entries finally age out - meaning a potentially long delay with communications not working. This patch evicts neighbor entries on carrier down with the exception of those marked permanent. Permanent entries are managed by userspace (either an admin or a routing daemon such as FRR). Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

proc: introduce proc_create_net{,_data}

2018-05-16T05:24:30+00:00

Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations and deal with network namespaces in ->open and ->release. All callers of proc_create + seq_open_net converted over, and seq_{open,release}_net are removed entirely. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

arp: fix arp_filter on l3slave devices

2018-04-06T02:05:03+00:00

arp_filter performs an ip_route_output search for arp source address and checks if output device is the same where the arp request was received, if it is not, the arp request is not answered. This route lookup is always done on main route table so l3slave devices never find the proper route and arp is not answered. Passing l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu(dev) return value as oif fixes the lookup for l3slave devices while maintaining same behavior for non l3slave devices as this function returns 0 in that case. Fixes: 613d09b30f8b ("net: Use VRF device index for lookups on TX") Signed-off-by: Miguel Fadon Perlines Acked-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Drop pernet_operations::async

2018-03-27T17:18:09+00:00

Synchronous pernet_operations are not allowed anymore. All are asynchronous. So, drop the structure member. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Use octal not symbolic permissions

2018-03-26T16:07:48+00:00

Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions. Done with checkpatch -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace and some typing. Miscellanea: o Whitespace neatening around these conversions. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller