netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net/ipv6: Introduce accept_unsolicited_na knob to implement router-side changes for RFC9131

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Message-ID: <0bf37720-870a-9dde-d825-92e12633ce38@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:11:52 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     Arun Ajith S <aajith@...sta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...nel.org,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        corbet@....net, prestwoj@...il.com, gilligan@...sta.com,
        noureddine@...sta.com, gk@...sta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net/ipv6: Introduce accept_unsolicited_na
 knob to implement router-side changes for RFC9131

On 4/14/22 09:56, Arun Ajith S wrote:
> Add a new neighbour cache entry in STALE state for routers on receiving
> an unsolicited (gratuitous) neighbour advertisement with
> target link-layer-address option specified.
> This is similar to the arp_accept configuration for IPv4.
> A new sysctl endpoint is created to turn on this behaviour:
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/interface/accept_unsolicited_na.
> 

Hi,

Building the documentation (htmldocs) with this patch, I got:

/home/bagas/repo/linux-stable/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst:2475:
WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
/home/bagas/repo/linux-stable/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst:2477:
WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
/home/bagas/repo/linux-stable/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst:2481:
WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
/home/bagas/repo/linux-stable/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst:2482:
WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

I have applied following fixup.

---- 8> ----
>From 304846b43a9f962f53f3841afabfd597b3b80951 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:59:46 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] fixup for "net/ipv6: Introduce accept_unsolicited_na knob to
 implement router-side changes for RFC9131"

Fix the simple table syntax.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 9e17efe343a..433f2e4a5fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -2472,13 +2472,17 @@ accept_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
 	unsolicited neighbour advertisement with target link-layer address option
 	specified. This is as per router-side behavior documented in RFC9131.
 	This has lower precedence than drop_unsolicited_na.
+
+	 ====   ======  ======  ==============================================
 	 drop   accept  fwding                   behaviour
 	 ----   ------  ------  ----------------------------------------------
 	    1        X       X  Drop NA packet and don't pass up the stack
 	    0        0       X  Pass NA packet up the stack, don't update NC
 	    0        1       0  Pass NA packet up the stack, don't update NC
 	    0        1       1  Pass NA packet up the stack, and add a STALE
-	                          NC entry
+	                        NC entry
+	 ====   ======  ======  ==============================================
+
 	This will optimize the return path for the initial off-link communication
 	that is initiated by a directly connected host, by ensuring that
 	the first-hop router which turns on this setting doesn't have to

base-commit: 38e01f46e0e7f88b92ca0b3f52ac6b9909ed413b
-- 
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Thanks.

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