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  1. Feb 27, 2016
    • David Lamparter's avatar
      net: l3mdev: prefer VRF master for source address selection · 17b693cd
      David Lamparter authored 
      

When selecting an address in context of a VRF, the vrf master should be
preferred for address selection.  If it isn't, the user has a hard time
getting the system to select to their preference - the code will pick
the address off the first in-VRF interface it can find, which on a
router could well be a non-routable address.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
[dsa: Fixed comment style and removed extra blank link ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      17b693cd
    • David Ahern's avatar
      net: l3mdev: address selection should only consider devices in L3 domain · 3f2fb9a8
      David Ahern authored 
      

David Lamparter noted a use case where the source address selection fails
to pick an address from a VRF interface - unnumbered interfaces.

Relevant commands from his script:
    ip addr add 9.9.9.9/32 dev lo
    ip link set lo up

    ip link add name vrf0 type vrf table 101
    ip rule add oif vrf0 table 101
    ip rule add iif vrf0 table 101
    ip link set vrf0 up
    ip addr add 10.0.0.3/32 dev vrf0

    ip link add name dummy2 type dummy
    ip link set dummy2 master vrf0 up

    --> note dummy2 has no address - unnumbered device

    ip route add 10.2.2.2/32 dev dummy2 table 101
    ip neigh add 10.2.2.2 dev dummy2 lladdr 02:00:00:00:00:02

    tcpdump -ni dummy2 &

And using ping instead of his socat example:
    $ ping -I vrf0 -c1 10.2.2.2
    ping: Warning: source address might be selected on device other than vrf0.
    PING 10.2.2.2 (10.2.2.2) from 9.9.9.9 vrf0: 56(84) bytes of data.

>From tcpdump:
    12:57:29.449128 IP 9.9.9.9 > 10.2.2.2: ICMP echo request, id 2491, seq 1, length 64

Note the source address is from lo and is not a VRF local address. With
this patch:

    $ ping -I vrf0 -c1 10.2.2.2
    PING 10.2.2.2 (10.2.2.2) from 10.0.0.3 vrf0: 56(84) bytes of data.

>From tcpdump:
    12:59:25.096426 IP 10.0.0.3 > 10.2.2.2: ICMP echo request, id 2113, seq 1, length 64

Now the source address comes from vrf0.

The ipv4 function for selecting source address takes a const argument.
Removing the const requires touching a lot of places, so instead
l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu is changed to take a const argument and then
do the typecast to non-const as required by netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu.
This is similar to what l3mdev_fib_table_rcu does.

IPv6 for unnumbered interfaces appears to be selecting the addresses
properly.

Cc: David Lamparter <david@opensourcerouting.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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  3. Feb 26, 2016