netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv4: send arp replies to the correct tunnel

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:10:21 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv4: send arp replies to the correct tunnel

On 09/22/15 at 06:12pm, Jiri Benc wrote:
> When using ip lwtunnels, the additional data for xmit (basically, the actual
> tunnel to use) are carried in ip_tunnel_info either in dst->lwtstate or in
> metadata dst. When replying to ARP requests, we need to send the reply to
> the same tunnel the request came from. This means we need to construct
> proper metadata dst for ARP replies.
> 
> We could perform another route lookup to get a dst entry with the correct
> lwtstate. However, this won't always ensure that the outgoing tunnel is the
> same as the incoming one, and it won't work anyway for IPv4 duplicate
> address detection.
> 
> The only thing to do is to "reverse" the ip_tunnel_info.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>

Great start, thanks!

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
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