From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Anton Danilov <littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/2] selftests: net: add FOU multicast encapsulation resubmit test
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:22:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.b213c4463b15@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5b65f092d22a12b52fc536c0565b948cd8ecae3.1783372173.git.littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com>
Anton Danilov wrote:
> Add a selftest to verify that FOU-encapsulated packets addressed to a
> multicast destination are correctly resubmitted to the inner protocol
> handler (GRE) via the UDP multicast delivery path. Both IPv4 and IPv6
> paths are tested.
>
> The test creates two network namespaces connected by a veth pair with
> a FOU/GRETAP (IPv4) and FOU/ip6gretap (IPv6) tunnel using multicast
> remote addresses (239.0.0.1 and ff0e::1). Ping is sent through each
> tunnel and received packets are counted on the receiver's tunnel
> interface.
>
> The veth pair is created directly inside the namespaces to avoid
> possible name collisions with devices in the root namespace.
>
> Static neighbor entries are configured on the sender because ARP/ND
> replies from the receiver cannot traverse the unidirectional multicast
> tunnel back to the sender.
>
> The early demux optimization (net.ipv4.ip_early_demux, which controls
> both IPv4 and IPv6) is disabled on the receiver to force packets
> through __udp4_lib_mcast_deliver() / __udp6_lib_mcast_deliver(), which
> is the code path being tested.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Danilov <littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
> +setup_ipv4() {
> + # IPv4 FOU (CONFIG_NET_FOU) is built in on kernels configured for
Instead of this distinction and modprobe for IPv6, also set those new
CONFIGs to =Y, so that the two are equivalent?
Not important enough to respin.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-09 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-08 0:35 [PATCH net-next v6 0/2] udp: fix FOU/GUE over multicast Anton Danilov
2026-07-08 0:35 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/2] udp: fix encapsulation packet resubmit in multicast deliver Anton Danilov
2026-07-09 1:24 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-07-09 20:11 ` Anton Danilov
2026-07-09 21:18 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-07-08 0:35 ` [PATCH net-next v6 2/2] selftests: net: add FOU multicast encapsulation resubmit test Anton Danilov
2026-07-09 1:22 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
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