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From: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@gmail.com>
To: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.com>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>, Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4 1/2] gre: Fix IPv6 link-local address generation.
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:18:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z9RIyKZDNoka53EO@mini-arch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <559c32ce5c9976b269e6337ac9abb6a96abe5096.1741375285.git.gnault@redhat.com>

On 03/07, Guillaume Nault wrote:
> Use addrconf_addr_gen() to generate IPv6 link-local addresses on GRE
> devices in most cases and fall back to using add_v4_addrs() only in
> case the GRE configuration is incompatible with addrconf_addr_gen().
> 
> GRE used to use addrconf_addr_gen() until commit e5dd729460ca
> ("ip/ip6_gre: use the same logic as SIT interfaces when computing v6LL
> address") restricted this use to gretap and ip6gretap devices, and
> created add_v4_addrs() (borrowed from SIT) for non-Ethernet GRE ones.
> 
> The original problem came when commit 9af28511be10 ("addrconf: refuse
> isatap eui64 for INADDR_ANY") made __ipv6_isatap_ifid() fail when its
> addr parameter was 0. The commit says that this would create an invalid
> address, however, I couldn't find any RFC saying that the generated
> interface identifier would be wrong. Anyway, since gre over IPv4
> devices pass their local tunnel address to __ipv6_isatap_ifid(), that
> commit broke their IPv6 link-local address generation when the local
> address was unspecified.
> 
> Then commit e5dd729460ca ("ip/ip6_gre: use the same logic as SIT
> interfaces when computing v6LL address") tried to fix that case by
> defining add_v4_addrs() and calling it to generate the IPv6 link-local
> address instead of using addrconf_addr_gen() (apart for gretap and
> ip6gretap devices, which would still use the regular
> addrconf_addr_gen(), since they have a MAC address).
> 
> That broke several use cases because add_v4_addrs() isn't properly
> integrated into the rest of IPv6 Neighbor Discovery code. Several of
> these shortcomings have been fixed over time, but add_v4_addrs()
> remains broken on several aspects. In particular, it doesn't send any
> Router Sollicitations, so the SLAAC process doesn't start until the
> interface receives a Router Advertisement. Also, add_v4_addrs() mostly
> ignores the address generation mode of the interface
> (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/addr_gen_mode), thus breaking the
> IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_RANDOM and IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_STABLE_PRIVACY cases.
> 
> Fix the situation by using add_v4_addrs() only in the specific scenario
> where the normal method would fail. That is, for interfaces that have
> all of the following characteristics:
> 
>   * run over IPv4,
>   * transport IP packets directly, not Ethernet (that is, not gretap
>     interfaces),
>   * tunnel endpoint is INADDR_ANY (that is, 0),
>   * device address generation mode is EUI64.

Could you please double check net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh ?
It seems like it started falling after this series has been pulled:
https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-forwarding-dbg/results/31301/2-ip6gre-custom-multipath-hash-sh/stdout

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-03-14 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-07 19:28 [PATCH net v4 0/2] gre: Fix regressions in IPv6 link-local address generation Guillaume Nault
2025-03-07 19:28 ` [PATCH net v4 1/2] gre: Fix " Guillaume Nault
2025-03-09 18:03   ` Ido Schimmel
2025-03-14 15:18   ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]
2025-03-14 19:22     ` Guillaume Nault
2025-03-14 20:18       ` Stanislav Fomichev
2025-03-16 13:08         ` Ido Schimmel
2025-03-17 21:10           ` Guillaume Nault
2025-03-20 16:26             ` Simon Horman
2025-03-20 19:04               ` Ido Schimmel
2025-03-24 14:36                 ` Guillaume Nault
2025-03-07 19:28 ` [PATCH net v4 2/2] selftests: Add IPv6 link-local address generation tests for GRE devices Guillaume Nault
2025-03-09 18:04   ` Ido Schimmel
2025-03-10  9:44   ` Petr Machata
2025-03-13  9:30 ` [PATCH net v4 0/2] gre: Fix regressions in IPv6 link-local address generation patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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