linux/tools
Vladimir Vdovin fc07a23232 net: ipv4: Cache pmtu for all packet paths if multipath enabled
[ Upstream commit 7d3f3b4367 ]

Check number of paths by fib_info_num_path(),
and update_or_create_fnhe() for every path.
Problem is that pmtu is cached only for the oif
that has received icmp message "need to frag",
other oifs will still try to use "default" iface mtu.

An example topology showing the problem:

                    |  host1
                +---------+
                |  dummy0 | 10.179.20.18/32  mtu9000
                +---------+
        +-----------+----------------+
    +---------+                     +---------+
    | ens17f0 |  10.179.2.141/31    | ens17f1 |  10.179.2.13/31
    +---------+                     +---------+
        |    (all here have mtu 9000)    |
    +------+                         +------+
    | ro1  |  10.179.2.140/31        | ro2  |  10.179.2.12/31
    +------+                         +------+
        |                                |
---------+------------+-------------------+------
                        |
                    +-----+
                    | ro3 | 10.10.10.10  mtu1500
                    +-----+
                        |
    ========================================
                some networks
    ========================================
                        |
                    +-----+
                    | eth0| 10.10.30.30  mtu9000
                    +-----+
                        |  host2

host1 have enabled multipath and
sysctl net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_policy = 1:

default proto static src 10.179.20.18
        nexthop via 10.179.2.12 dev ens17f1 weight 1
        nexthop via 10.179.2.140 dev ens17f0 weight 1

When host1 tries to do pmtud from 10.179.20.18/32 to host2,
host1 receives at ens17f1 iface an icmp packet from ro3 that ro3 mtu=1500.
And host1 caches it in nexthop exceptions cache.

Problem is that it is cached only for the iface that has received icmp,
and there is no way that ro3 will send icmp msg to host1 via another path.

Host1 now have this routes to host2:

ip r g 10.10.30.30 sport 30000 dport 443
10.10.30.30 via 10.179.2.12 dev ens17f1 src 10.179.20.18 uid 0
    cache expires 521sec mtu 1500

ip r g 10.10.30.30 sport 30033 dport 443
10.10.30.30 via 10.179.2.140 dev ens17f0 src 10.179.20.18 uid 0
    cache

So when host1 tries again to reach host2 with mtu>1500,
if packet flow is lucky enough to be hashed with oif=ens17f1 its ok,
if oif=ens17f0 it blackholes and still gets icmp msgs from ro3 to ens17f1,
until lucky day when ro3 will send it through another flow to ens17f0.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Vdovin <deliran@verdict.gg>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241108093427.317942-1-deliran@verdict.gg
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 139512191b ("ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-03-13 12:50:43 +01:00
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accounting SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1. 2020-04-03 13:12:26 -07:00
arch tools/x86/kcpuid: Protect against faulty "max subleaf" values 2024-10-17 15:11:28 +02:00
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rcu tools/rcu: Add drgn script to dump number of RCU callbacks 2021-05-10 15:39:19 -07:00
scripts tools: Override makefile ARCH variable if defined, but empty 2024-12-14 19:51:30 +01:00
spi spi: tools: make a symbolic link to the header file spi.h 2021-04-22 16:30:39 +01:00
testing net: ipv4: Cache pmtu for all packet paths if multipath enabled 2025-03-13 12:50:43 +01:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: Fix possible path truncations 2022-08-17 14:24:15 +02:00
time treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 282 2019-06-05 17:36:37 +02:00
tracing tools/latency-collector: Fix -Wformat-security compile warns 2024-06-16 13:39:12 +02:00
usb usbip: tools: Fix detach_port() invalid port error path 2024-11-08 16:25:54 +01:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix build 2024-03-01 13:21:52 +01:00
vm tools/vm/slabinfo-gnuplot: use "grep -E" instead of "egrep" 2022-12-08 11:28:42 +01:00
wmi treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
Makefile tracing/tools: Add the latency-collector to tools directory 2021-02-12 11:52:59 -05:00