netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 16/19] ipv6: Flush multipath routes when all siblings are dead

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Message-ID: <7a3fb99c-b441-4fb9-c2e7-99918258b809@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 Jan 2018 10:38:19 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 16/19] ipv6: Flush multipath routes when all
 siblings are dead

On 12/31/17 9:15 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> By default, IPv6 deletes nexthops from a multipath route when the
> nexthop device is put administratively down. This differs from IPv4
> where the nexthops are kept, but marked with the RTNH_F_DEAD flag. A
> multipath route is flushed when all of its nexthops become dead.
> 
> Align IPv6 with IPv4 and have it conform to the same guidelines.
> 
> In case the multipath route needs to be flushed, its siblings are
> flushed one by one. Otherwise, the nexthops are marked with the
> appropriate flags and the tree walker is instructed to skip all the
> siblings.
> 
> As explained in previous patches, care is taken to update the sernum of
> the affected tree nodes, so as to prevent the use of wrong dst entries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/route.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
> index ab95e07b5e74..9b142eb83f3c 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/route.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
> @@ -3486,8 +3486,10 @@ static int fib6_ifup(struct rt6_info *rt, void *p_arg)
>  	const struct arg_netdev_event *arg = p_arg;
>  	const struct net *net = dev_net(arg->dev);
>  
> -	if (rt != net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry && rt->dst.dev == arg->dev)
> +	if (rt != net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry && rt->dst.dev == arg->dev) {
>  		rt->rt6i_nh_flags &= ~arg->nh_flags;
> +		fib6_update_sernum_upto_root(dev_net(rt->dst.dev), rt);
> +	}
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -3528,6 +3530,35 @@ static void rt6_multipath_flush(struct rt6_info *rt)
>  		iter->should_flush = 1;
>  }
>  
> +static unsigned int rt6_multipath_dead_count(const struct rt6_info *rt,
> +					     const struct net_device *down_dev)
> +{
> +	struct rt6_info *iter;
> +	unsigned int dead = 0;
> +
> +	if (rt->dst.dev == down_dev || rt->rt6i_nh_flags & RTNH_F_DEAD)
> +		dead++;
> +	list_for_each_entry(iter, &rt->rt6i_siblings, rt6i_siblings)
> +		if (iter->dst.dev == down_dev ||
> +		    iter->rt6i_nh_flags & RTNH_F_DEAD)
> +			dead++;
> +
> +	return dead;
> +}
> +
> +static void rt6_multipath_nh_flags_set(struct rt6_info *rt,
> +				       const struct net_device *dev,
> +				       unsigned int nh_flags)
> +{
> +	struct rt6_info *iter;
> +
> +	if (rt->dst.dev == dev)
> +		rt->rt6i_nh_flags |= nh_flags;
> +	list_for_each_entry(iter, &rt->rt6i_siblings, rt6i_siblings)
> +		if (iter->dst.dev == dev)
> +			iter->rt6i_nh_flags |= nh_flags;
> +}
> +
>  /* called with write lock held for table with rt */
>  static int fib6_ifdown(struct rt6_info *rt, void *p_arg)
>  {
> @@ -3550,13 +3581,21 @@ static int fib6_ifdown(struct rt6_info *rt, void *p_arg)
>  		}
>  		return -2;
>  	case NETDEV_DOWN:
> -		if (rt->dst.dev != dev)
> -			break;
> -		if (rt->rt6i_nsiblings == 0 ||
> -		    !rt->rt6i_idev->cnf.ignore_routes_with_linkdown)
> +		if (rt->should_flush)
>  			return -1;
> -		rt->rt6i_nh_flags |= (RTNH_F_DEAD | RTNH_F_LINKDOWN);
> -		break;
> +		if (!rt->rt6i_nsiblings)
> +			return rt->dst.dev == dev ? -1 : 0;
> +		if (rt6_multipath_uses_dev(rt, dev)) {
> +			if (rt->rt6i_nsiblings + 1 ==
> +			    rt6_multipath_dead_count(rt, dev)) {

I'd prefer a tmp variable to make that line more readable and still
within the 80 column guideline.
			unsigned int count;

			count = rt6_multipath_dead_count(rt, dev);
			if (rt->rt6i_nsiblings + 1 == count) {


> +				rt6_multipath_flush(rt);
> +				return -1;
> +			}
> +			rt6_multipath_nh_flags_set(rt, dev, RTNH_F_DEAD |
> +						   RTNH_F_LINKDOWN);
> +			fib6_update_sernum(rt);
> +		}
> +		return -2;
>  	case NETDEV_CHANGE:
>  		if (rt->dst.dev != dev ||
>  		    rt->rt6i_flags & (RTF_LOCAL | RTF_ANYCAST))
>