In d9ee51e, virNetDevIPCheckIPv6Forwarding was updated to walk the
contents of /proc/net/ipv6_route so that it could check to see if the
RTF_ADDRCONF was set on any IPv6 routes to ultimately determine if
enabling forwarding would result in an error due to accept_ra=1 being
set on the interface.
The implementation added in that commit limited the number of routes
that could be read from /proc/net/ipv6_route to 100_000, each with 150
characters. This is problematic for machines that have a full IPv6
routing table, as the IPv6 routing table has now grown to over 160_000
(it was closer to 100_000 at the time of that commit).
This patch increases the maximum route size from 100_000 to 1_000_000.
While a million routes is somewhat arbitrary, it's meant to be a value
that can be supported for the forseeable future. APNIC, one of the five
regional internet registries, recently published a forecast of IPv6
table growth which anticipates a worst-case growth to 1_000_000 in
January of 2029.
Signed-off-by: Brooks Swinnerton <bswinnerton@xxxxxxxxx>
---
src/util/virnetdevip.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/util/virnetdevip.c b/src/util/virnetdevip.c
index 2eacb64ebe..034b392ee7 100644
--- a/src/util/virnetdevip.c
+++ b/src/util/virnetdevip.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ virNetDevIPCheckIPv6Forwarding(void)
char *cur;
g_autofree char *buf = NULL;
/* lines are 150 chars */
- enum {MAX_ROUTE_SIZE = 150*100000};
+ enum {MAX_ROUTE_SIZE = 150*1000000};
/* This is /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_ra */
int all_accept_ra = virNetDevIPGetAcceptRA(NULL);
--
2.39.1
