Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 - IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES borked....
On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:08:09 PDT, Andrew Morton said: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc3/2.6.18-rc3-mm2/ Building a kernel with IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y breaks my IPv6 connectivity quite badly. It basically totally refuses to answer an IPv6 Neighbor Solicit packet or IPv6 Echo Request packet. I run a 'tcpdump -n ipv6', and I see the requests come in, and no packets leaving. Interestingly enough, if I try to ping6 *out* of the box, it's totally willing to send a Neighbor Solicit outbound (although it appears to totally ignore the Neighbor Advert packet that comes back). Of course, things don't work very well at all with busticated Neighbor Solicit. A kernel built with IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES=n works just fine. The relevant ifconfig (eth3 is a 100mbit port, eth5 is a wireless card): eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:EA:8E:4E inet addr:128.173.14.107 Bcast:128.173.15.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 inet6 addr: 2001:468:c80:2103:206:5bff:feea:8e4e/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: fe80::206:5bff:feea:8e4e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:15529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0 TX packets:2073 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2333290 (2.2 MiB) TX bytes:228862 (223.4 KiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6800 eth5 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:5C:11:48 inet addr:198.82.168.129 Bcast:198.82.168.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: 2001:468:c80:2181:202:2dff:fe5c:1148/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:fe5c:1148/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:144 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:280919 (274.3 KiB) TX bytes:22184 (21.6 KiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe100 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1583 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1583 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:642598 (627.5 KiB) TX bytes:642598 (627.5 KiB) A working routing table: netstat -r -n -A inet6 Kernel IPv6 routing table Destination Next Hop Flags Metric RefUse Iface ::1/128 :: U 0 12 1 lo 2001:468:c80:2103:206:5bff:feea:8e4e/128:: U 0 41 lo 2001:468:c80:2103::/64 :: UA256113 0 eth3 2001:468:c80:2181:202:2dff:fe5c:1148/128:: U 0 01 lo 2001:468:c80:2181::/64 :: UA25611 0 eth5 fe80::202:2dff:fe5c:1148/128:: U 0 01 lo fe80::206:5bff:feea:8e4e/128:: U 0 21 lo fe80::/64 :: U 25600 eth3 fe80::/64 :: U 25600 eth5 ff02::1/128 ff02::1 UC0 113 0 eth3 ff02::1/128 ff02::1 UC0 10 eth5 ff00::/8:: U 25600 eth3 ff00::/8:: U 25600 eth5 ::/0fe80::20f:35ff:fe3e:d41a UGDA 1024 10 eth3 ::/0fe80::20f:35ff:fe3e:d41a UGDA 1024 10 eth5 pgp0hv0N6FUv3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 - IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES borked....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:08:09 PDT, Andrew Morton said: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc3/2.6.18-rc3-mm2/ Building a kernel with IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y breaks my IPv6 connectivity quite badly. It basically totally refuses to answer an IPv6 Neighbor Solicit packet or IPv6 Echo Request packet. I run a 'tcpdump -n ipv6', and I see the requests come in, and no packets leaving. Interestingly enough, if I try to ping6 *out* of the box, it's totally willing to send a Neighbor Solicit outbound (although it appears to totally ignore the Neighbor Advert packet that comes back). Of course, things don't work very well at all with busticated Neighbor Solicit. A kernel built with IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES=n works just fine. It should be fixed by this patch (already contained in net-2.6.19). [IPV6]: Fix policy routing lookup When the lookup in a table returns ip6_null_entry the policy routing lookup returns it instead of continuing in the next table, which effectively means it only searches the local table. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 2b885e76c2b2c74d2dfe86a8140f0b41149f327c tree 767711f03ea3e990ce02b3720718b77490027793 parent 5bd721a145d02a89a9b69adf3ede9d0b3647ae8b author Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:24:08 -0700 committer David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:24:08 -0700 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c |4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c index c3c8195..94a46ec 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c +++ b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c @@ -94,8 +94,10 @@ int fib6_rule_action(struct fib_rule *ru if (rt != ip6_null_entry) goto out; - dst_release(rt-u.dst); + rt = NULL; + goto out; + discard_pkt: dst_hold(rt-u.dst); out:
Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 - IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES borked....
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:02:03 +0200, Patrick McHardy said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:08:09 PDT, Andrew Morton said: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc3/2.6.18-rc3-mm2/ Building a kernel with IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y breaks my IPv6 connectivity It should be fixed by this patch (already contained in net-2.6.19). Confirmed fixed, thanks... pgp35bA5bBOzS.pgp Description: PGP signature
