3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jim Westfall <jwestfall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cd9ff4de0107c65d69d02253bb25d6db93c3dbc1 ] Map all lookup neigh keys to INADDR_ANY for loopback/point-to-point devices to avoid making an entry for every remote ip the device needs to talk to. This used the be the old behavior but became broken in a263b3093641f (ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path) and later removed in 0bb4087cbec0 (ipv4: Fix neigh lookup keying over loopback/point-to-point devices) because it was broken. Signed-off-by: Jim Westfall <jwestfall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/net/arp.h | 3 +++ net/ipv4/arp.c | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/net/arp.h +++ b/include/net/arp.h @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ static inline struct neighbour *__ipv4_n { struct neighbour *n; + if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK | IFF_POINTOPOINT)) + key = INADDR_ANY; + rcu_read_lock_bh(); n = __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref(dev, key); if (n && !atomic_inc_not_zero(&n->refcnt)) --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c @@ -221,11 +221,16 @@ static u32 arp_hash(const void *pkey, static int arp_constructor(struct neighbour *neigh) { - __be32 addr = *(__be32 *)neigh->primary_key; + __be32 addr; struct net_device *dev = neigh->dev; struct in_device *in_dev; struct neigh_parms *parms; + u32 inaddr_any = INADDR_ANY; + if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK | IFF_POINTOPOINT)) + memcpy(neigh->primary_key, &inaddr_any, arp_tbl.key_len); + + addr = *(__be32 *)neigh->primary_key; rcu_read_lock(); in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev); if (in_dev == NULL) {