linux/net/core
He Chunhui d1c2b5010d net: neigh: disallow transition to NUD_STALE if lladdr is unchanged in neigh_update()
NUD_STALE is used when the caller(e.g. arp_process()) can't guarantee
neighbour reachability. If the entry was NUD_VALID and lladdr is unchanged,
the entry state should not be changed.

Currently the code puts an extra "NUD_CONNECTED" condition. So if old state
was NUD_DELAY or NUD_PROBE (they are NUD_VALID but not NUD_CONNECTED), the
state can be changed to NUD_STALE.

This may cause problem. Because NUD_STALE lladdr doesn't guarantee
reachability, when we send traffic, the state will be changed to
NUD_DELAY. In normal case, if we get no confirmation (by dst_confirm()),
we will change the state to NUD_PROBE and send probe traffic. But now the
state may be reset to NUD_STALE again(e.g. by broadcast ARP packets),
so the probe traffic will not be sent. This situation may happen again and
again, and packets will be sent to an non-reachable lladdr forever.

The fix is to remove the "NUD_CONNECTED" condition. After that the
"NEIGH_UPDATE_F_WEAK_OVERRIDE" condition (used by IPv6) in that branch will
be redundant, so remove it.

This change may increase probe traffic, but it's essential since NUD_STALE
lladdr is unreliable. To ensure correctness, we prefer to resolve lladdr,
when we can't get confirmation, even while remote packets try to set
NUD_STALE state.

Signed-off-by: Chunhui He <hchunhui@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26 14:25:20 -07:00
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datagram.c udp: enable MSG_PEEK at non-zero offset 2016-04-05 16:29:37 -04:00
dev_addr_lists.c
dev_ioctl.c dev_ioctl: use sizeof(x) instead of sizeof x 2014-11-18 15:27:32 -05:00
dev.c net: add ndo to setup/query xdp prog in adapter rx 2016-07-19 21:46:31 -07:00
devlink.c devlink: add hardware messages tracing facility 2016-07-12 14:20:18 -07:00
drop_monitor.c net: tracepoint napi:napi_poll add work and budget 2016-07-09 18:05:02 -04:00
dst_cache.c net: dst_cache_per_cpu_dst_set() can be static 2016-03-18 17:45:08 -04:00
dst.c net: add dst_cache to ovs vxlan lwtunnel 2016-02-16 20:21:48 -05:00
ethtool.c sctp: Add GSO support 2016-06-03 19:37:21 -04:00
fib_rules.c fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to fib_nl_newrule 2016-06-30 08:23:19 -04:00
filter.c bpf, events: fix offset in skb copy handler 2016-07-25 10:34:11 -07:00
flow_dissector.c packet: Use symmetric hash for PACKET_FANOUT_HASH. 2016-07-01 16:07:50 -04:00
flow.c flowcache: Avoid OOM condition under preasure 2016-03-17 10:28:42 +01:00
gen_estimator.c net: sched: do not acquire qdisc spinlock in qdisc/class stats dump 2016-06-07 16:37:14 -07:00
gen_stats.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-06-10 11:52:24 -07:00
hwbm.c net: hwbm: Fix unbalanced spinlock in error case 2016-05-25 12:35:09 -07:00
link_watch.c dev: introduce dev_get_iflink() 2015-04-02 14:04:59 -04:00
lwtunnel.c lwtunnel: autoload of lwt modules 2016-02-21 22:00:28 -05:00
Makefile net: add a hardware buffer management helper API 2016-03-14 12:19:46 -04:00
neighbour.c net: neigh: disallow transition to NUD_STALE if lladdr is unchanged in neigh_update() 2016-07-26 14:25:20 -07:00
net_namespace.c netns: make nsid_lock per net 2015-05-17 23:41:11 -04:00
net-procfs.c net: remove NETDEV_TX_LOCKED support 2016-04-26 15:53:05 -04:00
net-sysfs.c net: introduce NETDEV_CHANGE_TX_QUEUE_LEN 2016-07-01 05:32:17 -04:00
net-sysfs.h
net-traces.c net: IPv6 fib lookup tracepoint 2015-11-22 11:54:10 -05:00
netclassid_cgroup.c core: remove unneded headers for net cgroup controllers. 2016-02-17 15:31:27 -05:00
netevent.c netevent: remove automatic variable in register_netevent_notifier() 2015-05-31 00:03:21 -07:00
netpoll.c net: tracepoint napi:napi_poll add work and budget 2016-07-09 18:05:02 -04:00
netprio_cgroup.c core: remove unneded headers for net cgroup controllers. 2016-02-17 15:31:27 -05:00
pktgen.c net: pktgen: support injecting packets for qdisc testing 2016-07-04 16:07:34 -07:00
ptp_classifier.c ptp: Change ptp_class to a proper bitmask 2015-11-03 11:08:22 -05:00
request_sock.c tcp: restore fastopen operations 2015-10-05 03:19:06 -07:00
rtnetlink.c rtnl: protect do_setlink from IFLA_XDP_ATTACHED 2016-07-20 22:07:23 -07:00
scm.c unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct 2016-02-08 10:30:42 -05:00
secure_seq.c net: remove a sparse error in secure_dccpv6_sequence_number() 2015-05-25 22:55:37 -04:00
skbuff.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-07-06 10:35:22 -07:00
sock_diag.c sock_diag: align nlattr properly when needed 2016-04-26 12:00:48 -04:00
sock_reuseport.c soreuseport: fix NULL ptr dereference SO_REUSEPORT after bind 2016-01-19 14:44:23 -05:00
sock.c dccp: limit sk_filter trim to payload 2016-07-13 11:53:41 -07:00
stream.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-12-03 21:09:12 -05:00
sysctl_net_core.c bpf: add generic constant blinding for use in jits 2016-05-16 13:49:32 -04:00
timestamping.c net: skb_defer_rx_timestamp should check for phydev before setting up classify 2015-07-09 14:17:15 -07:00
tso.c net: tso: add support for IPv6 2015-10-26 22:24:22 -07:00
utils.c net: the space is required before the open parenthesis '(' 2016-06-29 05:15:14 -04:00