netdev - Re: Regression from "ipv4: Cache ip_error() routes even when not forwarding."

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Date:	Sat, 17 Jan 2015 08:30:20 -0800
From:	Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...sta.com>
To:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc:	Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...stanetworks.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression from "ipv4: Cache ip_error() routes even when not forwarding."

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg> wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Francesco Ruggeri wrote:
>
>> Commit 251da413("ipv4: Cache ip_error() routes even when not forwarding."),
>> later slightly modified by cd0f0b95("ipv4: distinguish EHOSTUNREACH from
>> the ENETUNREACH"), introduced a regression where an ip_error route is cached
>> when an ARP request is received on a non-forwarding non matching interface,
>> and it affects later legitimate packets for the same destination even if
>> coming over different interfaces.
>> Attached are two scripts that show the problem. The first one does basic
>> forwarding, and the second one does proxy arp.
>> In both cases a dummy interface is created for the sole purpose of receiving
>> an ARP request that results in the ip_error route to be cached. The offending
>> ARP request is generated by using a 'ping -c 1' (commented out in the scripts).
>> Verified in 3.16 build.
>
>         3.16? Just in case, can you check if this
> fix from 3.18 helps:

Thanks, I will.

Francesco

>
> commit fa19c2b050ab5254326f5fc07096dd3c6a8d5d58
> Author: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@...en-communications.fr>
> Date:   Thu Oct 30 10:09:53 2014 +0100
>
>     ipv4: Do not cache routing failures due to disabled forwarding.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
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