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Commit 4ed377e3 authored by Hannes Frederic Sowa's avatar Hannes Frederic Sowa Committed by David S. Miller
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net: neighbour: use source address of last enqueued packet for solicitation



Currently we always use the first member of the arp_queue to determine
the sender ip address of the arp packet (or in case of IPv6 - source
address of the ndisc packet). This skb is fixed as long as the queue is
not drained by a complete purge because of a timeout or by a successful
response.

If the first packet enqueued on the arp_queue is from a local application
with a manually set source address and the to be discovered system
does some kind of uRPF checks on the source address in the arp packet
the resolving process hangs until a timeout and restarts. This hurts
communication with the participating network node.

This could be mitigated a bit if we use the latest enqueued skb's
source address for the resolving process, which is not as static as
the arp_queue's head. This change of the source address could result in
better recovery of a failed solicitation.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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