Re: The recvmsg() with IP_PKTINFO for local addresses returns various ipi_ifindex

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 8/9/18 2:13 AM, Damir Mansurov wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I use the IP_PKTINFO to detect ipi_ifindex from which the packet was
> arrived, it used to work for local addresses also.
> 
> For local addresses ipi_ifindex always returned 1, but starting from
> Linux 4.14 ip_ifindex began to return various values.
> 
> Example host configuration:
> 1:  lo:   127.0.0.1
> 2:  eth0: 192.168.3.45
> 3:  eth1: 192.168.4.45
> 
> I use sendto() with addresses {127.0.0.1, 192.168.3.45 and
> 192.168.4.45}, call recvmsg() and than use standard procedure to get
> ipi_ifindex, it shows results:
> 
>                  |      ipi_ifindex     |      ipi_ifindex
>  sendto(address) |   Linux ver < 4.14   |   Linux ver >= 4.14
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>   127.0.0.1      |          1           |           1
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>   192.168.3.45   |          1           |           2
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>   192.168.4.45   |          1           |           3
> 
> 
> It seems that this behavior depends from commit:
> net: ipv4: set orig_oif based on fib result for local traffic
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-4.14.y&id=839da4d98960bcc68e6b7b945b33ad3916ec1e92
> 
> 
> I believe that ipi_ifindex for local addresses should be 1.
> Is there a Bug for Linux >= 4.14 or is this a valid behavior?

The index should be the device with the address. It was reporting
loopback prior to the mentioned commit because loopback is used for
packet Tx which is an implementation detail for sending packets locally.