netdev - ping not working

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Date:   Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:10:13 +0200
From:   folkert <folkert@...heusden.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ping not working

Hi,

This might be slightly off-topic altough it involves Linux, tap-device
and ping.

For fun I'm implementing an IP-stack. To do so I open a tap-device and
use read/write to obtain/send packets. I configured the interface with
IFF_NO_PI to not to get flags/protocol header.

At this point it can answer to ARP requests. If I use arping I see that
it replies to requests. Also by verifying in wireshark of course.

Now the problem is though, that ICMP doesn't work. When pinging, I see
packets coming in and replies going out but for some reasons ping
"doesn't see them". In wireshark everything looks fine:
https://vps001.vanheusden.com/~folkert/myip2.pcap (and
https://vps001.vanheusden.com/~folkert/myip.pcap ).
but if I run ping with strace I see something peculiar:

sendto(3, "\10\0&\354\0\0\0\1\303\3508_\0\0\0\0\10\370\r\0\0\0\0\0\20\21\22\23\24\25\26\27"..., 64, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.3.2")}, 16) = 64
recvmsg(3, {msg_namelen=128}, 0)        = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

As you see, the recvmsg (always!) fails with an EAGAIN.

My question now is: how can I debug this? Or is this a common bug (in 
implementations of ip stacks)?

Folkert van Heusden