Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6 bind to device issue

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From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 12:21 am

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:13:39PM -0400, Brian Haley wrote:

I think it's a good idea, attaching the changed patch

thanks,
jirka
---

The issue raises when having 2 NICs both assigned the same
IPv6 global address.

If a sender binds to a particular NIC (SO_BINDTODEVICE),
the outgoing traffic is being sent via the first found.
The bonded device is thus not taken into an account during the
routing.


From the ip6_route_output function:

If the binding address is multicast, linklocal or loopback,
the RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE bit is set, but not for global address.

So binding global address will neglect SO_BINDTODEVICE-binded device,
because the fib6_rule_lookup function path won't check for the
flowi::oif field and take first route that fits.

Following patch should handle the issue.

wbr,
jirka


Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Otto <scott.otto@alcatel-lucent.com>
---
 net/ipv6/route.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index c2438e8..05ebd78 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ struct dst_entry * ip6_route_output(struct net *net, struct sock *sk,
 {
 	int flags = 0;
 
-	if (rt6_need_strict(&fl->fl6_dst))
+	if (fl->oif || rt6_need_strict(&fl->fl6_dst))
 		flags |= RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE;
 
 	if (!ipv6_addr_any(&fl->fl6_src))

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[PATCH] net: ipv6 bind to device issue, Jiri Olsa, (Tue Apr 20, 5:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6 bind to device issue, Brian Haley, (Tue Apr 20, 8:41 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6 bind to device issue, Jiri Olsa, (Tue Apr 20, 8:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6 bind to device issue, Brian Haley, (Tue Apr 20, 11:13 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6 bind to device issue, Jiri Olsa, (Wed Apr 21, 12:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6 bind to device issue, David Miller, (Wed Apr 21, 10:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6 bind to device issue, David Miller, (Wed Apr 21, 10:58 pm)