From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40910 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753730AbeA2UOo (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:14:44 -0500 Subject: Patch "ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree To: jwestfall@surrealistic.net, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:57:05 +0100 Message-ID: <151722342519619@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipv4-make-neigh-lookup-keys-for-loopback-point-to-point-devices-be-inaddr_any.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Mon Jan 29 11:15:06 CET 2018 From: Jim Westfall Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:18:51 -0800 Subject: ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY From: Jim Westfall [ Upstream commit cd9ff4de0107c65d69d02253bb25d6db93c3dbc1 ] Map all lookup neigh keys to INADDR_ANY for loopback/point-to-point devices to avoid making an entry for every remote ip the device needs to talk to. This used the be the old behavior but became broken in a263b3093641f (ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path) and later removed in 0bb4087cbec0 (ipv4: Fix neigh lookup keying over loopback/point-to-point devices) because it was broken. Signed-off-by: Jim Westfall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/net/arp.h | 3 +++ net/ipv4/arp.c | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/net/arp.h +++ b/include/net/arp.h @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ static inline struct neighbour *__ipv4_n { struct neighbour *n; + if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK | IFF_POINTOPOINT)) + key = INADDR_ANY; + rcu_read_lock_bh(); n = __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref(dev, key); if (n && !atomic_inc_not_zero(&n->refcnt)) --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c @@ -221,11 +221,16 @@ static u32 arp_hash(const void *pkey, static int arp_constructor(struct neighbour *neigh) { - __be32 addr = *(__be32 *)neigh->primary_key; + __be32 addr; struct net_device *dev = neigh->dev; struct in_device *in_dev; struct neigh_parms *parms; + u32 inaddr_any = INADDR_ANY; + if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK | IFF_POINTOPOINT)) + memcpy(neigh->primary_key, &inaddr_any, arp_tbl.key_len); + + addr = *(__be32 *)neigh->primary_key; rcu_read_lock(); in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev); if (in_dev == NULL) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwestfall@surrealistic.net are queue-3.18/ipv4-make-neigh-lookup-keys-for-loopback-point-to-point-devices-be-inaddr_any.patch queue-3.18/net-allow-neigh-contructor-functions-ability-to-modify-the-primary_key.patch