IFF_POINTOPOINT interfaces use NUD_NOARP entries for IPv6. It's possible to
fill up the neighbour table with enough entries that it will overflow for
valid connections after that.
This behaviour is more prevalent after commit 58956317c8de ("neighbor:
Improve garbage collection") is applied, as it prevents removal from
entries that are not NUD_FAILED, unless they are more than 5s old.
Fixes: 58956317c8de (neighbor: Improve garbage collection)
Reported-by: Kasper Dupont <kasp...@gjkwv.06.feb.2021.kasperd.net>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@canonical.com>
---
net/core/neighbour.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index bbc89c7ffdfd..be5ca411b149 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ static int neigh_forced_gc(struct neigh_table *tbl)
write_lock(&n->lock);
if ((n->nud_state == NUD_FAILED) ||
+ (n->nud_state == NUD_NOARP) ||
(tbl->is_multicast &&
tbl->is_multicast(n->primary_key)) ||
time_after(tref, n->updated))
--
2.27.0
