On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 09:02:31AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> In v3.9 6fd6ce2056de2709 ("ipv6: Do not depend on rt->n in
> ip6_finish_output2()") changed the behaviour of ip6_finish_output2()
> such that it creates and uses a neigh entry if none is found.
> Subsequently the 'n' field was removed from struct rt6_info.
>
> Unfortunately my analysis is that in the case of IPVS direct routing this
> change leads to incorrect behaviour as in this case packets may be output
> to a destination other than where they would be output according to the
> route table. In particular, the destination address may actually be a local
> address and empirically a neighbour lookup seems to result in it becoming
> unreachable.
>
> This patch resolves the problem by providing the destination address
> determined by IPVS to ip6_finish_output2() in the skb callback. Although
> this seems to work I can see several problems with this approach:
>
> * It is rather ugly, stuffing an IPVS exception right in
> the middle of IPv6 code. The overhead could be eliminated for many users
> by using a staic key. But none the less it is not attractive.
>
> * The use of the skb callback is may not be valid
> as it crosses from IPVS to IPv6 code. A possible, though unpleasant,
> alternative is to add a new field to struct sk_buff.
>
> * This covers all IPv6 packets output by IPVS but actually
> only those output using IPVS Direct-Routing need this. One way to
> resolve this would be to add a more fine-grained ipvs_property to
> struct sk_buff.
Hmm, that reminds me on the following bug report which would be nice we could
solve in one go, too: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg250785.html
Greetings,
Hannes
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