From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] ipv6: Fix after pmtu events dissapearing host routes Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:26:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1422527211.2861.2.camel@redhat.com> References: <54C78B8D.1070104@huawei.com> <20150128121026.GM13046@secunet.com> <20150128121150.GN13046@secunet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yang Yingliang , netdev , "David S. Miller" To: Steffen Klassert Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39543 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754269AbbA2K1J (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:27:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150128121150.GN13046@secunet.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mi, 2015-01-28 at 13:11 +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote: > We currently don't clone host routes before we use them. > If a pmtu event is received on such a route, it gets > an expires value. As soon as the expiration time is > elapsed, the route is deleted. As a result, the host > is not reachable any more. > > We fix this by cloning host routes if they are gatewayed, > i.e. if pmtu events can happen. > > Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert > --- > net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c > index c910831..3e864e7 100644 > --- a/net/ipv6/route.c > +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c > @@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ redo_rt6_select: > > if (!(rt->rt6i_flags & (RTF_NONEXTHOP | RTF_GATEWAY))) > nrt = rt6_alloc_cow(rt, &fl6->daddr, &fl6->saddr); > - else if (!(rt->dst.flags & DST_HOST)) > + else if (!(rt->dst.flags & DST_HOST) || (rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_GATEWAY)) > nrt = rt6_alloc_clone(rt, &fl6->daddr); > else > goto out2; My approach was to suppress mtu updates on the loopback interface. Hmm... Bye, Hannes