Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] l3mdev icmp error route lookup fixes

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 08:57:47 EST


----- On Oct 11, 2020, at 7:56 PM, David Ahern dsahern@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On 10/5/20 9:30 AM, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 9/25/20 1:04 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here is an updated series of fixes for ipv4 and ipv6 which which ensure
>>> the route lookup is performed on the right routing table in VRF
>>> configurations when sending TTL expired icmp errors (useful for
>>> traceroute).
>>>
>>> It includes tests for both ipv4 and ipv6.
>>>
>>> These fixes address specifically address the code paths involved in
>>> sending TTL expired icmp errors. As detailed in the individual commit
>>> messages, those fixes do not address similar icmp errors related to
>>> network namespaces and unreachable / fragmentation needed messages,
>>> which appear to use different code paths.
>>>
>>> The main changes since the last round are updates to the selftests.
>>>
>>
>> This looks fine to me. I noticed the IPv6 large packet test case is
>> failing; the fib6 tracepoint is showing the loopback as the iif which is
>> wrong:
>>
>> ping6 8488 [004] 502.015817: fib6:fib6_table_lookup: table 255 oif 0
>> iif 1 proto 58 ::/0 -> 2001:db8:16:1::1/0 tos 0 scope 0 flags 0 ==> dev
>> lo gw :: err -113
>>
>> I will dig into it later this week.
>>
>
> I see the problem here -- source address selection is picking ::1. I do
> not have a solution to the problem yet, but its resolution is
> independent of the change in this set so I think this one is good to go.

OK, do you want to pick up the RFC patch series, or should I re-send it
without RFC tag ?

Thanks,

Mathieu


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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
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