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ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Thu, 4 Oct 2012 01:25:26 +0000 (01:25 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:50:21 +0000 (05:50 +0900)
commit52fc5048534e9d4127622fa5a269a92f3bb5218b
tree72cf1d0aa74a2acc2ec9b778baa0ef5b7ab2aa7a
parentc1d5777da53b53e02b38845ef9e80ac542f6a08a
ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info

[ Upstream commit f4ef85bbda96324785097356336bc79cdd37db0a ]

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>
Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/net/ip_fib.h
net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c