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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> |
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datagram.c | ||
dev_addr_lists.c | ||
dev_ioctl.c | ||
dev.c | ||
devlink.c | ||
drop_monitor.c | ||
dst_cache.c | ||
dst.c | ||
ethtool.c | ||
fib_rules.c | ||
filter.c | ||
flow_dissector.c | ||
flow.c | ||
gen_estimator.c | ||
gen_stats.c | ||
hwbm.c | ||
link_watch.c | ||
lwtunnel.c | ||
Makefile | ||
neighbour.c | ||
net_namespace.c | ||
net-procfs.c | ||
net-sysfs.c | ||
net-sysfs.h | ||
net-traces.c | ||
netclassid_cgroup.c | ||
netevent.c | ||
netpoll.c | ||
netprio_cgroup.c | ||
pktgen.c | ||
ptp_classifier.c | ||
request_sock.c | ||
rtnetlink.c | ||
scm.c | ||
secure_seq.c | ||
skbuff.c | ||
sock_diag.c | ||
sock_reuseport.c | ||
sock.c | ||
stream.c | ||
sysctl_net_core.c | ||
timestamping.c | ||
tso.c | ||
utils.c |