netdev - Re: IGMP on IPv6

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Date:   Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:20:27 -0400
From:   Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
CC:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>,
        "open list:TI NETCP ETHERNET DRIVER" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: IGMP on IPv6

On 04/18/2017 01:12 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
> On 04/17/2017 05:38 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com> wrote:
>>> On 03/22/2017 11:04 AM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>>>> This is going directly to the slave Ethernet interface.
>>>>
>>>> When I put a WARN_ONCE, I found this is coming directly from
>>>> mld_ifc_timer_expire() -> mld_sendpack() -> ip6_output()
>>>>
>>>> Do you think this is fixed in latest kernel at master? If so, could
>>>> you point me to some commits.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ping... I see this behavior is also seen on v4.9.x Kernel. Any clue if
>>> this is fixed by some commit or I need to debug? I see IGMPv6 has some
>>> fixes on the list to make it similar to IGMPv4. So can someone clarify this is
>>> is a bug at IGMPv6 code or I need to look into the HSR driver code?
>>> Since IGMPv4 is going over the HSR interface I am assuming this is a
>>> bug in the IGMPv6 code. But since I have not experience with this code
>>> can some expert comment please?
>>>
>>
>> How did you configure your network interfaces and IPv4/IPv6 multicast?
>> IOW, how did you reproduce this? For example, did you change your
>> HSR setup when this happened since you mentioned
>> NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER?
>>
> Thanks for responding! Really appreciate.
> 
> I didn't set up anything explicitly for IPv4/IPv6 multicast. As part of
> my testing, I dump the packets going through the slave interfaces attached
> to the hsr interface (for example my Ethernet interfaces eth2 and eth3
> are attached to the hsr interface and I dump the packets at the egress
> of eth2 and eth3 in my driver along with that at hsr xmit function). As
> soon as I create the hsr interface, I see a bunch of packets going directly
> through the lower interface, not through the upper one (i.e hsr interface)
> and these are of eth_type = 86 dd. Please ignore my reference to 
> NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER for now as it was wild guess.
> 
> I have not done any debugging, but the WARN_ONCE which I have placed
> in the lower level driver looking for eth_type = 86 dd provided the 
> above trace. 
> 
Here is the command I have used to create the hsr interface...

ip link add name hsr0 type hsr slave1 eth2 slave2 eth3 supervision 45 version 1


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Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone