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<title>arp: Prevent overflow in arp_req_get().</title>
<updated>2024-02-20T09:50:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
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<published>2024-02-15T23:05:16+00:00</published>
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syzkaller reported an overflown write in arp_req_get(). [0]

When ioctl(SIOCGARP) is issued, arp_req_get() looks up an neighbour
entry and copies neigh-&gt;ha to struct arpreq.arp_ha.sa_data.

The arp_ha here is struct sockaddr, not struct sockaddr_storage, so
the sa_data buffer is just 14 bytes.

In the splat below, 2 bytes are overflown to the next int field,
arp_flags.  We initialise the field just after the memcpy(), so it's
not a problem.

However, when dev-&gt;addr_len is greater than 22 (e.g. MAX_ADDR_LEN),
arp_netmask is overwritten, which could be set as htonl(0xFFFFFFFFUL)
in arp_ioctl() before calling arp_req_get().

To avoid the overflow, let's limit the max length of memcpy().

Note that commit b5f0de6df6dc ("net: dev: Convert sa_data to flexible
array in struct sockaddr") just silenced syzkaller.

[0]:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 16) of single field "r-&gt;arp_ha.sa_data" at net/ipv4/arp.c:1128 (size 14)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 144638 at net/ipv4/arp.c:1128 arp_req_get+0x411/0x4a0 net/ipv4/arp.c:1128
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 144638 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.1.74 #31
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-debian-1.16.0-5 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:arp_req_get+0x411/0x4a0 net/ipv4/arp.c:1128
Code: fd ff ff e8 41 42 de fb b9 0e 00 00 00 4c 89 fe 48 c7 c2 20 6d ab 87 48 c7 c7 80 6d ab 87 c6 05 25 af 72 04 01 e8 5f 8d ad fb &lt;0f&gt; 0b e9 6c fd ff ff e8 13 42 de fb be 03 00 00 00 4c 89 e7 e8 a6
RSP: 0018:ffffc900050b7998 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88803a815000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8641a44a RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc900050b7a98 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 203a7970636d656d R12: ffff888039c54000
R13: 1ffff92000a16f37 R14: ffff88803a815084 R15: 0000000000000010
FS:  00007f172bf306c0(0000) GS:ffff88805aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f172b3569f0 CR3: 0000000057f12005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 arp_ioctl+0x33f/0x4b0 net/ipv4/arp.c:1261
 inet_ioctl+0x314/0x3a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:981
 sock_do_ioctl+0xdf/0x260 net/socket.c:1204
 sock_ioctl+0x3ef/0x650 net/socket.c:1321
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x220 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x64/0xce
RIP: 0033:0x7f172b262b8d
Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f172bf300b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f172b3abf80 RCX: 00007f172b262b8d
RDX: 0000000020000000 RSI: 0000000000008954 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f172b2d3493 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f172b3abf80 R15: 00007f172bf10000
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

Reported-by: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Reported-by: Bjoern Doebel &lt;doebel@amazon.de&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240215230516.31330-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
syzkaller reported an overflown write in arp_req_get(). [0]

When ioctl(SIOCGARP) is issued, arp_req_get() looks up an neighbour
entry and copies neigh-&gt;ha to struct arpreq.arp_ha.sa_data.

The arp_ha here is struct sockaddr, not struct sockaddr_storage, so
the sa_data buffer is just 14 bytes.

In the splat below, 2 bytes are overflown to the next int field,
arp_flags.  We initialise the field just after the memcpy(), so it's
not a problem.

However, when dev-&gt;addr_len is greater than 22 (e.g. MAX_ADDR_LEN),
arp_netmask is overwritten, which could be set as htonl(0xFFFFFFFFUL)
in arp_ioctl() before calling arp_req_get().

To avoid the overflow, let's limit the max length of memcpy().

Note that commit b5f0de6df6dc ("net: dev: Convert sa_data to flexible
array in struct sockaddr") just silenced syzkaller.

[0]:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 16) of single field "r-&gt;arp_ha.sa_data" at net/ipv4/arp.c:1128 (size 14)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 144638 at net/ipv4/arp.c:1128 arp_req_get+0x411/0x4a0 net/ipv4/arp.c:1128
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 144638 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.1.74 #31
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-debian-1.16.0-5 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:arp_req_get+0x411/0x4a0 net/ipv4/arp.c:1128
Code: fd ff ff e8 41 42 de fb b9 0e 00 00 00 4c 89 fe 48 c7 c2 20 6d ab 87 48 c7 c7 80 6d ab 87 c6 05 25 af 72 04 01 e8 5f 8d ad fb &lt;0f&gt; 0b e9 6c fd ff ff e8 13 42 de fb be 03 00 00 00 4c 89 e7 e8 a6
RSP: 0018:ffffc900050b7998 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88803a815000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8641a44a RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc900050b7a98 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 203a7970636d656d R12: ffff888039c54000
R13: 1ffff92000a16f37 R14: ffff88803a815084 R15: 0000000000000010
FS:  00007f172bf306c0(0000) GS:ffff88805aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f172b3569f0 CR3: 0000000057f12005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 arp_ioctl+0x33f/0x4b0 net/ipv4/arp.c:1261
 inet_ioctl+0x314/0x3a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:981
 sock_do_ioctl+0xdf/0x260 net/socket.c:1204
 sock_ioctl+0x3ef/0x650 net/socket.c:1321
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x220 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x64/0xce
RIP: 0033:0x7f172b262b8d
Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f172bf300b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f172b3abf80 RCX: 00007f172b262b8d
RDX: 0000000020000000 RSI: 0000000000008954 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f172b2d3493 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f172b3abf80 R15: 00007f172bf10000
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

Reported-by: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Reported-by: Bjoern Doebel &lt;doebel@amazon.de&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240215230516.31330-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>neighbour: annotate lockless accesses to n-&gt;nud_state</title>
<updated>2023-03-15T07:37:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-13T20:17:31+00:00</published>
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We have many lockless accesses to n-&gt;nud_state.

Before adding another one in the following patch,
add annotations to readers and writers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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We have many lockless accesses to n-&gt;nud_state.

Before adding another one in the following patch,
add annotations to readers and writers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy</title>
<updated>2022-08-23T00:59:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfram Sang</name>
<email>wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-18T21:02:19+00:00</published>
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Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this
subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used.
Generated by a coccinelle script.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220818210219.8467-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this
subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used.
Generated by a coccinelle script.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220818210219.8467-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ipv4: new arp_accept option to accept garp only if in-network</title>
<updated>2022-07-16T01:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jaehee Park</name>
<email>jhpark1013@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-13T23:40:47+00:00</published>
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In many deployments, we want the option to not learn a neighbor from
garp if the src ip is not in the same subnet as an address configured
on the interface that received the garp message. net.ipv4.arp_accept
sysctl is currently used to control creation of a neigh from a
received garp packet. This patch adds a new option '2' to
net.ipv4.arp_accept which extends option '1' by including the subnet
check.

Signed-off-by: Jaehee Park &lt;jhpark1013@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Roopa Prabhu &lt;roopa@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In many deployments, we want the option to not learn a neighbor from
garp if the src ip is not in the same subnet as an address configured
on the interface that received the garp message. net.ipv4.arp_accept
sysctl is currently used to control creation of a neigh from a
received garp packet. This patch adds a new option '2' to
net.ipv4.arp_accept which extends option '1' by including the subnet
check.

Signed-off-by: Jaehee Park &lt;jhpark1013@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Roopa Prabhu &lt;roopa@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net, neigh: introduce interval_probe_time_ms for periodic probe</title>
<updated>2022-06-30T11:14:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuwei Wang</name>
<email>wangyuweihx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-29T08:48:32+00:00</published>
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commit ed6cd6a17896 ("net, neigh: Set lower cap for neigh_managed_work rearming")
fixed a case when DELAY_PROBE_TIME is configured to 0, the processing of the
system work queue hog CPU to 100%, and further more we should introduce
a new option used by periodic probe

Signed-off-by: Yuwei Wang &lt;wangyuweihx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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commit ed6cd6a17896 ("net, neigh: Set lower cap for neigh_managed_work rearming")
fixed a case when DELAY_PROBE_TIME is configured to 0, the processing of the
system work queue hog CPU to 100%, and further more we should introduce
a new option used by periodic probe

Signed-off-by: Yuwei Wang &lt;wangyuweihx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arp: fix unused variable warnning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n</title>
<updated>2022-04-25T10:50:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yajun Deng</name>
<email>yajun.deng@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-22T06:14:31+00:00</published>
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net/ipv4/arp.c:1412:36: warning: unused variable 'arp_seq_ops' [-Wunused-const-variable]

Add #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS for 'arp_seq_ops'.

Fixes: e968b1b3e9b8 ("arp: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng &lt;yajun.deng@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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net/ipv4/arp.c:1412:36: warning: unused variable 'arp_seq_ops' [-Wunused-const-variable]

Add #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS for 'arp_seq_ops'.

Fixes: e968b1b3e9b8 ("arp: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng &lt;yajun.deng@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: neigh: add skb drop reasons to arp_error_report()</title>
<updated>2022-02-26T12:53:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>imagedong@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-26T04:18:31+00:00</published>
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When neighbour become invalid or destroyed, neigh_invalidate() will be
called. neigh-&gt;ops-&gt;error_report() will be called if the neighbour's
state is NUD_FAILED, and seems here is the only use of error_report().
So we can tell that the reason of skb drops in arp_error_report() is
SKB_DROP_REASON_NEIGH_FAILED.

Replace kfree_skb() used in arp_error_report() with kfree_skb_reason().

Reviewed-by: Mengen Sun &lt;mengensun@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hao Peng &lt;flyingpeng@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;imagedong@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When neighbour become invalid or destroyed, neigh_invalidate() will be
called. neigh-&gt;ops-&gt;error_report() will be called if the neighbour's
state is NUD_FAILED, and seems here is the only use of error_report().
So we can tell that the reason of skb drops in arp_error_report() is
SKB_DROP_REASON_NEIGH_FAILED.

Replace kfree_skb() used in arp_error_report() with kfree_skb_reason().

Reviewed-by: Mengen Sun &lt;mengensun@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hao Peng &lt;flyingpeng@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;imagedong@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: Invalidate neighbour for broadcast address upon address addition</title>
<updated>2022-02-21T11:44:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-19T15:45:19+00:00</published>
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In case user space sends a packet destined to a broadcast address when a
matching broadcast route is not configured, the kernel will create a
unicast neighbour entry that will never be resolved [1].

When the broadcast route is configured, the unicast neighbour entry will
not be invalidated and continue to linger, resulting in packets being
dropped.

Solve this by invalidating unresolved neighbour entries for broadcast
addresses after routes for these addresses are internally configured by
the kernel. This allows the kernel to create a broadcast neighbour entry
following the next route lookup.

Another possible solution that is more generic but also more complex is
to have the ARP code register a listener to the FIB notification chain
and invalidate matching neighbour entries upon the addition of broadcast
routes.

It is also possible to wave off the issue as a user space problem, but
it seems a bit excessive to expect user space to be that intimately
familiar with the inner workings of the FIB/neighbour kernel code.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/55a04a8f-56f3-f73c-2aea-2195923f09d1@huawei.com/

Reported-by: Wang Hai &lt;wanghai38@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Wang Hai &lt;wanghai38@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In case user space sends a packet destined to a broadcast address when a
matching broadcast route is not configured, the kernel will create a
unicast neighbour entry that will never be resolved [1].

When the broadcast route is configured, the unicast neighbour entry will
not be invalidated and continue to linger, resulting in packets being
dropped.

Solve this by invalidating unresolved neighbour entries for broadcast
addresses after routes for these addresses are internally configured by
the kernel. This allows the kernel to create a broadcast neighbour entry
following the next route lookup.

Another possible solution that is more generic but also more complex is
to have the ARP code register a listener to the FIB notification chain
and invalidate matching neighbour entries upon the addition of broadcast
routes.

It is also possible to wave off the issue as a user space problem, but
it seems a bit excessive to expect user space to be that intimately
familiar with the inner workings of the FIB/neighbour kernel code.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/55a04a8f-56f3-f73c-2aea-2195923f09d1@huawei.com/

Reported-by: Wang Hai &lt;wanghai38@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Wang Hai &lt;wanghai38@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>arp: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS</title>
<updated>2021-11-22T14:34:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yajun Deng</name>
<email>yajun.deng@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-22T07:02:36+00:00</published>
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proc_create_net() and remove_proc_entry() already contain the case
whether to define CONFIG_PROC_FS, so remove #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS.

Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng &lt;yajun.deng@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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proc_create_net() and remove_proc_entry() already contain the case
whether to define CONFIG_PROC_FS, so remove #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS.

Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng &lt;yajun.deng@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: arp: introduce arp_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T02:57:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Prestwood</name>
<email>prestwoj@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T17:36:28+00:00</published>
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This change introduces a new sysctl parameter, arp_evict_nocarrier.
When set (default) the ARP cache will be cleared on a NOCARRIER event.
This new option has been defaulted to '1' which maintains existing
behavior.

Clearing the ARP cache on NOCARRIER is relatively new, introduced by:

commit 859bd2ef1fc1110a8031b967ee656c53a6260a76
Author: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Date:   Thu Oct 11 20:33:49 2018 -0700

    net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down

The reason for this changes is to prevent the ARP cache from being
cleared when a wireless device roams. Specifically for wireless roams
the ARP cache should not be cleared because the underlying network has not
changed. Clearing the ARP cache in this case can introduce significant
delays sending out packets after a roam.

A user reported such a situation here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CACsRnHWa47zpx3D1oDq9JYnZWniS8yBwW1h0WAVZ6vrbwL_S0w@mail.gmail.com/

After some investigation it was found that the kernel was holding onto
packets until ARP finished which resulted in this 1 second delay. It
was also found that the first ARP who-has was never responded to,
which is actually what caues the delay. This change is more or less
working around this behavior, but again, there is no reason to clear
the cache on a roam anyways.

As for the unanswered who-has, we know the packet made it OTA since
it was seen while monitoring. Why it never received a response is
unknown. In any case, since this is a problem on the AP side of things
all that can be done is to work around it until it is solved.

Some background on testing/reproducing the packet delay:

Hardware:
 - 2 access points configured for Fast BSS Transition (Though I don't
   see why regular reassociation wouldn't have the same behavior)
 - Wireless station running IWD as supplicant
 - A device on network able to respond to pings (I used one of the APs)

Procedure:
 - Connect to first AP
 - Ping once to establish an ARP entry
 - Start a tcpdump
 - Roam to second AP
 - Wait for operstate UP event, and note the timestamp
 - Start pinging

Results:

Below is the tcpdump after UP. It was recorded the interface went UP at
10:42:01.432875.

10:42:01.461871 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28
10:42:02.497976 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28
10:42:02.507162 ARP, Reply 192.168.254.1 is-at ac:86:74:55:b0:20, length 46
10:42:02.507185 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 1, length 64
10:42:02.507205 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 2, length 64
10:42:02.507212 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 3, length 64
10:42:02.507219 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 4, length 64
10:42:02.507225 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 5, length 64
10:42:02.507232 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 6, length 64
10:42:02.515373 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 1, length 64
10:42:02.521399 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 2, length 64
10:42:02.521612 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 3, length 64
10:42:02.521941 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 4, length 64
10:42:02.522419 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 5, length 64
10:42:02.523085 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 6, length 64

You can see the first ARP who-has went out very quickly after UP, but
was never responded to. Nearly a second later the kernel retries and
gets a response. Only then do the ping packets go out. If an ARP entry
is manually added prior to UP (after the cache is cleared) it is seen
that the first ping is never responded to, so its not only an issue with
ARP but with data packets in general.

As mentioned prior, the wireless interface was also monitored to verify
the ping/ARP packet made it OTA which was observed to be true.

Signed-off-by: James Prestwood &lt;prestwoj@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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This change introduces a new sysctl parameter, arp_evict_nocarrier.
When set (default) the ARP cache will be cleared on a NOCARRIER event.
This new option has been defaulted to '1' which maintains existing
behavior.

Clearing the ARP cache on NOCARRIER is relatively new, introduced by:

commit 859bd2ef1fc1110a8031b967ee656c53a6260a76
Author: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Date:   Thu Oct 11 20:33:49 2018 -0700

    net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down

The reason for this changes is to prevent the ARP cache from being
cleared when a wireless device roams. Specifically for wireless roams
the ARP cache should not be cleared because the underlying network has not
changed. Clearing the ARP cache in this case can introduce significant
delays sending out packets after a roam.

A user reported such a situation here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CACsRnHWa47zpx3D1oDq9JYnZWniS8yBwW1h0WAVZ6vrbwL_S0w@mail.gmail.com/

After some investigation it was found that the kernel was holding onto
packets until ARP finished which resulted in this 1 second delay. It
was also found that the first ARP who-has was never responded to,
which is actually what caues the delay. This change is more or less
working around this behavior, but again, there is no reason to clear
the cache on a roam anyways.

As for the unanswered who-has, we know the packet made it OTA since
it was seen while monitoring. Why it never received a response is
unknown. In any case, since this is a problem on the AP side of things
all that can be done is to work around it until it is solved.

Some background on testing/reproducing the packet delay:

Hardware:
 - 2 access points configured for Fast BSS Transition (Though I don't
   see why regular reassociation wouldn't have the same behavior)
 - Wireless station running IWD as supplicant
 - A device on network able to respond to pings (I used one of the APs)

Procedure:
 - Connect to first AP
 - Ping once to establish an ARP entry
 - Start a tcpdump
 - Roam to second AP
 - Wait for operstate UP event, and note the timestamp
 - Start pinging

Results:

Below is the tcpdump after UP. It was recorded the interface went UP at
10:42:01.432875.

10:42:01.461871 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28
10:42:02.497976 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28
10:42:02.507162 ARP, Reply 192.168.254.1 is-at ac:86:74:55:b0:20, length 46
10:42:02.507185 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 1, length 64
10:42:02.507205 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 2, length 64
10:42:02.507212 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 3, length 64
10:42:02.507219 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 4, length 64
10:42:02.507225 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 5, length 64
10:42:02.507232 IP 192.168.254.71 &gt; 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 6, length 64
10:42:02.515373 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 1, length 64
10:42:02.521399 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 2, length 64
10:42:02.521612 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 3, length 64
10:42:02.521941 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 4, length 64
10:42:02.522419 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 5, length 64
10:42:02.523085 IP 192.168.254.1 &gt; 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 6, length 64

You can see the first ARP who-has went out very quickly after UP, but
was never responded to. Nearly a second later the kernel retries and
gets a response. Only then do the ping packets go out. If an ARP entry
is manually added prior to UP (after the cache is cleared) it is seen
that the first ping is never responded to, so its not only an issue with
ARP but with data packets in general.

As mentioned prior, the wireless interface was also monitored to verify
the ping/ARP packet made it OTA which was observed to be true.

Signed-off-by: James Prestwood &lt;prestwoj@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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