The motivation for this series is to route ICMPv6 error messages
together with the flow they belong to when multipath routing is in
use. It intends to bring the ECMP routing in IPv6 stack on par with
IPv4.
This enables the use of tools that rely on ICMP error messages such as
traceroute and makes PMTU discovery work both ways. However, for it to
work IPv6 flow labels have to be same in both directions
(i.e. reflected) or need to be chosen in a manner that ensures that
the flow going in the opposite direction would actually be routed to a
given path.
Even though we generally don't expect this, as receiving and sending
IPv6 are free to choose flow labels at will, we make an assumption
here that the enitity in charge of configuring ECMP routing will also
be in control of the server hosts, and can set up flow label
reflection. However, if this is not the case, the patchset doesn't
make the situation worse.
One potential user of the changes here would be an anycast service
hosted behind an ECMP router(s).
Changes have been tested in a virtual setup with a topology as below:
Re1 --- Hs1
/
Hc --- Ri --- Rc
\
Re1 --- Hs2
Hc - client host
HsX - server host
Rc - core router
ReX - edge router
Ri - intermediate router
To test the changes, traceroute in UDP mode to the client host, with
flow label set, has been run from one of the server hosts. Full test
is available at [1].
-Jakub
[1]
https://github.com/jsitnicki/tools/blob/master/net/tests/ecmp/test-ecmp-icmpv6-error-routing.sh
v1 -> v2:
- don't use "extern" in external function declaration in header file,
pointed out by David Miller;
- style change, put as many arguments as possible on the first line of
a function call, and align consecutive lines to the first argument,
pointed out by David Miller;
- expand the cover letter based on the feedback from David Miller and
Hannes Sowa;
Jakub Sitnicki (5):
ipv6: Fold rt6_info_hash_nhsfn() into its only caller
net: Extend struct flowi6 with multipath hash
ipv6: Use multipath hash from flow info if available
ipv6: Compute multipath hash for sent ICMP errors from offending
packet
ipv6: Compute multipath hash for forwarded ICMP errors from offending
packet
include/linux/icmpv6.h | 2 ++
include/net/flow.h | 1 +
net/ipv6/icmp.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
net/ipv6/route.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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2.7.4
