netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:13:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:54:12 -0700 (PDT)

> From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:50:21 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:42:46 +0200
>> 
>>> (Apparently we choke on neighbour entries count.
>>> 
>>> entries = atomic_inc_return(&tbl->entries) - 1;
>>> 
>>> We need a percpu_counter ? Or something is wrong ?
>> 
>> What do you mean we choke on it?  Does it exceed the thresholds
>> and we start garbage-collecting?
>> 
>> That would indicate a leak, or we are creating new neigh entries when
>> we shouldn't be, ie. we're not comparing the keys in the hash table
>> entries correctly during the lookup in net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> 
> I see the problem, we get the key wrong during neigh creation for
> loopback.
> 
> I'll fix this, thanks.

This should do it:

====================
[PATCH] ipv4: Fix neigh lookup keying over loopback/point-to-point devices.

We were using a special key "0" for all loopback and point-to-point
device neigh lookups under ipv4, but we wouldn't use that special
key for the neigh creation.

So basically we'd make a new neigh at each and every lookup :-)

This special case to use only one neigh for these device types
is of dubious value, so just remove it entirely.

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
 include/net/arp.h |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/arp.h b/include/net/arp.h
index 4617d98..7f7df93 100644
--- a/include/net/arp.h
+++ b/include/net/arp.h
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ static inline struct neighbour *__ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref(struct net_device *dev
 	struct neighbour *n;
 	u32 hash_val;
 
-	if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK | IFF_POINTOPOINT))
-		key = 0;
-
 	hash_val = arp_hashfn(key, dev, nht->hash_rnd[0]) >> (32 - nht->hash_shift);
 	for (n = rcu_dereference_bh(nht->hash_buckets[hash_val]);
 	     n != NULL;
-- 
1.7.10.4

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