netdev - Re: vrf and multicast problem

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Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:33:42 -0800
From:   Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vrf and multicast problem

On 3/9/22 7:54 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/9/22 3:31 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>> [resend, sorry...sent to wrong mailing list the first time]
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We recently found a somewhat weird problem, and before I go digging into
>> the kernel source, I wanted to see if someone had an answer already...
>>
>> I am binding (SO_BINDTODEVICE) a socket to an Ethernet port that is in a
>> VRF with a second
>> interface.  When I try to send mcast traffic out that eth port, nothing is
>> seen on the wire.
>>
>> But, if I set up a similar situation with a single network port in
>> a vrf and send multicast, then it does appear to work as I expected.
>>
>> I am not actually trying to do any mcast routing here, I simply want to
>> send
>> out mcast frames from a port that resides inside a vrf.
>>
>> Any idea what might be the issue?
>>
> 
> multicast with VRF works. I am not aware of any known issues

I set up a more controlled network to do some more testing.  I have eth2
on 192.168.100.x/24 network, and eth1 on 172.16.0.1/16.

I bind the mcast transmitter to eth1:

193 setsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, "eth1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 0
194 setsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
195 bind(28, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(8888), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0
196 fcntl(28, F_GETFL)                      = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
197 fcntl(28, F_SETFL, O_ACCMODE|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
198 setsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, [1], 4) = 0
199 setsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, [64000], 4) = 0
200 setsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, [128000], 4) = 0
201 getsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, [256000], [4]) = 0
202 getsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, [128000], [4]) = 0
203 write(3, "1646940176442:  BtbitsIpEndpoint"..., 69) = 69
204 setsockopt(28, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], 4)  = 0
205 getsockopt(28, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], [4]) = 0
206 setsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], 4) = 0
207 getsockopt(28, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], [4]) = 0
208 write(3, "1646940176442:  UdpEndpBase.cc 2"..., 148) = 148
209 setsockopt(28, SOL_IP, IP_MULTICAST_IF, [16781484], 4) = 0
210 setsockopt(28, SOL_IP, IP_MULTICAST_TTL, " ", 1) = 0

That IP_MULTICAST_IF ioctl should be assigning the IP address of
eth1.

But when I sniff, I see the mcast packets going out of eth2:

[root@...22-63e7 lanforge]# tshark -n -i eth2
Running as user "root" and group "root". This could be dangerous.
Capturing on 'eth2'
     1 0.000000000 192.168.100.28 → 225.5.5.1    LANforge 1514 Seq: 474
     2 0.060868103 192.168.100.226 → 192.168.100.255 ADwin Config 94
     3 0.060900503 00:0d:b9:41:6a:90 → ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0x1111 92 Ethernet II
     4 0.209523669 192.168.100.28 → 225.5.5.1    LANforge 1514 Seq: 475

[root@...22-63e7 lanforge]# ifconfig eth1
eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
         inet 172.16.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.16.255.255
         inet6 fe80::230:18ff:fe01:63e8  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
         ether 00:30:18:01:63:e8  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
         RX packets 1972669  bytes 409744407 (390.7 MiB)
         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
         TX packets 5818525  bytes 7341747933 (6.8 GiB)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
         device memory 0xdf740000-df75ffff

[root@...22-63e7 lanforge]# ifconfig eth2
eth2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.100.28  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.100.255
         inet6 fe80::230:18ff:fe01:63e9  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
         ether 00:30:18:01:63:e9  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
         RX packets 24638831  bytes 8874820766 (8.2 GiB)
         RX errors 26712  dropped 6596663  overruns 0  frame 16757
         TX packets 1753211  bytes 370552564 (353.3 MiB)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
         device memory 0xdf720000-df73ffff

If I disable VRF and use routing-rules based approach, then it works
as I expect (mcast frames go out of eth1).

We tested back to quite-old kernels with same symptom, so I think it is not
a regression.

Any suggestions on where to start poking at this in the kernel?

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com