* [PATCH net v4 1/2] vxlan: reset the remote's dst cache when snooping moves a MAC
2026-11-13 15:51 [PATCH net v4 0/2] vxlan: reset the remote's dst cache when snooping moves a MAC Zhefu Peng
@ 2026-11-13 15:51 ` Zhefu Peng
2026-11-13 15:51 ` [PATCH net v4 2/2] selftests: net: add a test for vxlan snooping moving " Zhefu Peng
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From: Zhefu Peng @ 2026-11-13 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: andrew+netdev, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, horms, kuniyu,
mschiffer, nicolas.dichtel, shuah, linux-kselftest
vxlan_snoop() handles a known MAC that now arrives from another remote
by rewriting the remote's IP address in place. It leaves the remote's
dst_cache alone, so the next packet to that MAC is routed with the dst
cached for the previous remote. When the two remotes have different
next hops, the packet leaves the wrong way. For example, if the
previous remote was on-link and the new one is behind a router, the
device resolves the new remote's address on the local link, the
neighbour stays incomplete, and traffic to the MAC is blackholed until
the cached route is invalidated, such as by "ip route flush cache".
The same branch also leaves remote_ifindex unchanged, although the
early return compares it and vxlan_xmit_one() uses it as the output
interface. When a MAC moves between an IPv6 link-local and another
address, the remote keeps the previous interface, and every later
packet from that remote enters the migration branch again.
vxlan_fdb_replace(), which makes the same change through netlink,
already resets the cache, updates remote_ifindex and clears offloaded.
Do the same when snooping.
Reproduced with network namespaces: a learning VXLAN device has one
peer VTEP on-link and another behind a router, and an inner MAC moves
from the first peer to the second. Without this patch, pings to the MAC
fail after the move until the route cache is flushed: in 10 of 10 runs
with one CPU, and in 5 of 6 runs with two CPUs, where it depends on
whether the sending CPU holds the stale entry. With the patch, they
succeed in all 16 runs. In a second setup over IPv6, the MAC moves from
a peer with a global address to a peer with a link-local one. Without
this patch, the move and every later packet from the new peer each send
an RTM_NEWNEIGH notification, 33 in each run. With the patch, only the
move sends one.
This was found by our AI-driven automated live migration tests. The fix
and this changelog were written with the help of an AI coding assistant.
Fixes: 0c1d70af924b ("net: use dst_cache for vxlan device")
Fixes: 87613de95041 ("vxlan: fix snooping for link-local IPv6 addresses")
Signed-off-by: Zhefu Peng <ilskdw@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index d11028b37..6bc54642e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -1482,7 +1482,10 @@ static enum skb_drop_reason vxlan_snoop(struct net_device *dev,
"%pM migrated from %pIS to %pIS\n",
src_mac, &rdst->remote_ip.sa, &src_ip->sa);
+ dst_cache_reset(&rdst->dst_cache);
rdst->remote_ip = *src_ip;
+ rdst->remote_ifindex = ifindex;
+ rdst->offloaded = false;
vxlan_fdb_notify(vxlan, f, rdst, RTM_NEWNEIGH, true, NULL);
} else {
/* learned new entry */
--
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2026-11-13 15:51 [PATCH net v4 0/2] vxlan: reset the remote's dst cache when snooping moves a MAC Zhefu Peng
2026-11-13 15:51 ` [PATCH net v4 1/2] " Zhefu Peng
@ 2026-11-13 15:51 ` Zhefu Peng
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From: Zhefu Peng @ 2026-11-13 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: andrew+netdev, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, horms, kuniyu,
mschiffer, nicolas.dichtel, shuah, linux-kselftest
Add a test for a learning VXLAN device that snoops a known MAC from
another VTEP.
The first case moves the MAC from an on-link IPv4 remote to a remote
behind a router, and checks that traffic to the MAC still flows. This
fails while the device keeps the route cached for the previous remote.
The second case moves the MAC from a global IPv6 remote to a link-local
one, and checks that the FDB entry records the new output interface.
Both cases ping from CPU 0. The route cache is per CPU, and only the
CPU that filled it hits the stale entry.
This test was written with the help of an AI coding assistant.
Signed-off-by: Zhefu Peng <ilskdw@gmail.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 1 +
.../selftests/net/test_vxlan_snoop_move.sh | 161 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 162 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/net/test_vxlan_snoop_move.sh
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
index baea3e7f0..69d440c5b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ TEST_PROGS := \
test_vxlan_mdb.sh \
test_vxlan_nh.sh \
test_vxlan_nolocalbypass.sh \
+ test_vxlan_snoop_move.sh \
test_vxlan_under_vrf.sh \
test_vxlan_vnifilter_notify.sh \
test_vxlan_vnifiltering.sh \
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/test_vxlan_snoop_move.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/test_vxlan_snoop_move.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e8c91fbcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/test_vxlan_snoop_move.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# Check that a learning VXLAN device fully updates a remote when snooping
+# moves a known MAC to another VTEP:
+#
+# - The route cached for the old remote is dropped. The old remote is
+# on-link and the new one is behind a router, so a stale cached route
+# blackholes traffic to the moved MAC.
+# - The output interface follows the new remote. The MAC moves from a
+# global IPv6 address to a link-local one, which needs an interface.
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2154,SC2329 # setup_ns sets the ns names; tests_run calls the tests
+source lib.sh
+
+ALL_TESTS="
+ test_move_behind_router
+ test_move_to_link_local
+"
+
+MAC=02:00:c0:a8:00:0a
+
+ping_from_cpu0()
+{
+ local ns=$1; shift
+
+ taskset -c 0 ip netns exec "$ns" ping -c 3 -W 1 -i 0.2 "$@" &> /dev/null
+}
+
+add_sw_port()
+{
+ local ns=$1; shift
+ local dev=$1; shift
+ local port=$1; shift
+
+ ip link add "$dev" netns "$ns" type veth peer name "$port" netns "$sw"
+ ip -n "$sw" link set "$port" master br0 up
+ ip -n "$ns" link set "$dev" up
+}
+
+test_move_behind_router()
+{
+ RET=0
+
+ setup_ns sw ex a r b
+ defer cleanup_ns "$sw" "$ex" "$a" "$r" "$b"
+
+ ip -n "$sw" link add br0 up type bridge
+ add_sw_port "$ex" e0 s-e
+ add_sw_port "$a" a0 s-a
+ add_sw_port "$r" r0 s-r
+ ip link add r1 netns "$r" type veth peer name b0 netns "$b"
+ ip -n "$r" link set r1 up
+ ip -n "$b" link set b0 up
+
+ ip -n "$ex" addr add 10.0.1.1/24 dev e0
+ ip -n "$ex" route add default via 10.0.1.254
+ ip -n "$a" addr add 10.0.1.2/24 dev a0
+ ip -n "$r" addr add 10.0.1.254/24 dev r0
+ ip -n "$r" addr add 10.0.2.254/24 dev r1
+ ip netns exec "$r" sysctl -wq net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
+ ip -n "$b" addr add 10.0.2.2/24 dev b0
+ ip -n "$b" route add default via 10.0.2.254
+
+ ip -n "$ex" link add vx0 type vxlan id 42 dstport 4789 \
+ local 10.0.1.1 learning
+ bridge -n "$ex" fdb append 00:00:00:00:00:00 dev vx0 dst 10.0.1.2
+ bridge -n "$ex" fdb append 00:00:00:00:00:00 dev vx0 dst 10.0.2.2
+ ip -n "$ex" addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev vx0
+ ip -n "$ex" link set vx0 up
+
+ ip -n "$a" link add vx0 address "$MAC" type vxlan id 42 dstport 4789 \
+ local 10.0.1.2 remote 10.0.1.1
+ ip -n "$b" link add vx0 address "$MAC" type vxlan id 42 dstport 4789 \
+ local 10.0.2.2 remote 10.0.1.1
+ ip -n "$a" addr add 192.168.0.10/24 dev vx0
+ ip -n "$b" addr add 192.168.0.10/24 dev vx0
+ ip -n "$a" link set vx0 up
+
+ ping_from_cpu0 "$ex" 192.168.0.10
+ check_err $? "ping before the move failed"
+
+ ip -n "$a" link set vx0 down
+ ip -n "$b" link set vx0 up
+ ip netns exec "$b" ping -c 1 -W 1 192.168.0.1 &> /dev/null
+
+ bridge -n "$ex" fdb show dev vx0 | grep -q "$MAC dst 10.0.2.2 "
+ check_err $? "fdb entry did not move to the new remote"
+
+ ping_from_cpu0 "$ex" 192.168.0.10
+ check_err $? "ping after the move failed"
+
+ log_test "IPv4 move to a remote behind a router"
+}
+
+test_move_to_link_local()
+{
+ local ns
+
+ RET=0
+
+ setup_ns sw ex a b
+ defer cleanup_ns "$sw" "$ex" "$a" "$b"
+
+ for ns in "$sw" "$ex" "$a" "$b"; do
+ ip netns exec "$ns" sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_dad=0
+ ip netns exec "$ns" sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_dad=0
+ done
+
+ ip -n "$sw" link add br0 up type bridge
+ add_sw_port "$ex" e0 s-e
+ add_sw_port "$a" a0 s-a
+ add_sw_port "$b" b0 s-b
+
+ ip -n "$ex" addr add 2001:db8:1::1/64 dev e0 nodad
+ ip -n "$ex" addr add fe80::1/64 dev e0 nodad
+ ip -n "$a" addr add 2001:db8:1::2/64 dev a0 nodad
+ ip -n "$b" addr add fe80::b/64 dev b0 nodad
+
+ ip -n "$ex" link add vx0 type vxlan id 42 dstport 4789 \
+ local 2001:db8:1::1 learning
+ bridge -n "$ex" fdb append 00:00:00:00:00:00 dev vx0 dst 2001:db8:1::2
+ bridge -n "$ex" fdb append 00:00:00:00:00:00 dev vx0 dst fe80::b via e0
+ ip -n "$ex" addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev vx0
+ ip -n "$ex" link set vx0 up
+
+ ip -n "$a" link add vx0 address "$MAC" type vxlan id 42 dstport 4789 \
+ local 2001:db8:1::2 remote 2001:db8:1::1
+ ip -n "$b" link add vx0 address "$MAC" type vxlan id 42 dstport 4789 \
+ local fe80::b remote fe80::1 dev b0 nolearning
+ ip -n "$a" addr add 192.168.0.10/24 dev vx0
+ ip -n "$b" addr add 192.168.0.10/24 dev vx0
+ ip -n "$a" link set vx0 up
+
+ ping_from_cpu0 "$ex" 192.168.0.10
+ check_err $? "ping before the move failed"
+
+ ip -n "$a" link set vx0 down
+ ip -n "$b" link set vx0 up
+ ip netns exec "$b" ping -c 1 -W 1 192.168.0.1 &> /dev/null
+
+ bridge -n "$ex" fdb show dev vx0 | grep -q "$MAC dst fe80::b via e0 "
+ check_err $? "fdb entry did not move to the new remote and interface"
+
+ ping_from_cpu0 "$ex" 192.168.0.10
+ check_err $? "ping after the move failed"
+
+ log_test "IPv6 move from a global to a link-local remote"
+}
+
+cleanup()
+{
+ defer_scopes_cleanup
+}
+
+require_command taskset
+
+trap cleanup EXIT
+tests_run
+
+exit "$EXIT_STATUS"
--
2.54.0
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