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Ido Schimmel 73dd98ac19 ipv4: Invalidate neighbour for broadcast address upon address addition
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In case user space sends a packet destined to a broadcast address when a
matching broadcast route is not configured, the kernel will create a
unicast neighbour entry that will never be resolved [1].

When the broadcast route is configured, the unicast neighbour entry will
not be invalidated and continue to linger, resulting in packets being
dropped.

Solve this by invalidating unresolved neighbour entries for broadcast
addresses after routes for these addresses are internally configured by
the kernel. This allows the kernel to create a broadcast neighbour entry
following the next route lookup.

Another possible solution that is more generic but also more complex is
to have the ARP code register a listener to the FIB notification chain
and invalidate matching neighbour entries upon the addition of broadcast
routes.

It is also possible to wave off the issue as a user space problem, but
it seems a bit excessive to expect user space to be that intimately
familiar with the inner workings of the FIB/neighbour kernel code.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/55a04a8f-56f3-f73c-2aea-2195923f09d1@huawei.com/

Reported-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-04-15 14:18:33 +02:00
arch powerpc: Set crashkernel offset to mid of RMA region 2022-04-15 14:18:32 +02:00
block Revert "Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges"" 2022-04-15 14:18:23 +02:00
certs
crypto crypto: authenc - Fix sleep in atomic context in decrypt_tail 2022-04-15 14:18:04 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: spi: mxic: The interrupt property is not mandatory 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
drivers power: supply: axp288-charger: Set Vhold to 4.4V 2022-04-15 14:18:33 +02:00
fs ubifs: Rectify space amount budget for mkdir/tmpfile operations 2022-04-15 14:18:31 +02:00
include ipv4: Invalidate neighbour for broadcast address upon address addition 2022-04-15 14:18:33 +02:00
init bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default 2022-02-16 12:52:49 +01:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel dma-debug: fix return value of __setup handlers 2022-04-15 14:18:18 +02:00
lib XArray: Update the LRU list in xas_split() 2022-04-15 14:18:28 +02:00
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mm mm/usercopy: return 1 from hardened_usercopy __setup() handler 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
net ipv4: Invalidate neighbour for broadcast address upon address addition 2022-04-15 14:18:33 +02:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins/stackleak: Exactly match strings instead of prefixes 2022-04-15 14:18:22 +02:00
security Fix incorrect type in assignment of ipv6 port for audit 2022-04-15 14:18:22 +02:00
sound ASoC: topology: Allow TLV control to be either read or write 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
tools bpf: Fix comment for helper bpf_current_task_under_cgroup() 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
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