IFF_POINTOPOINT link types. The reason was due to the routing
entry returned from the kernel covering the remote end is of an
interface type that does not support ARP. This patch fixes this
problem by providing a hint to the kernel routing code, which
indicates the prefix route instead of the PPP host route should
be returned to the caller. Since a host route to the local end
point is also added into the routing table, and there could be
multiple such instantiations due to multiple PPP links can be
created with the same local end IP address, this patch also fixes
the loopback route installation failure problem observed prior to
this patch. The reference count of loopback route to local end would
be either incremented or decremented. The first instantiation would
create the entry and the last removal would delete the route entry.
MFC after: 5 days
usable again with options VIMAGE kernels.
Submitted by: bz (the original version, probably identical to this one)
Reviewed by: many @ DevSummit Cambridge
MFC after: 3 days
- Interface link-local address is not reachable within the
node that owns the interface, this is due to the mismatch
in address scope as the result of the installed interface
address loopback route. Therefore for each interface
address loopback route, the rt_gateway field (of AF_LINK
type) will be used to track which interface a given
address belongs to. This will aid the address source to
use the proper interface for address scope/zone validation.
- The loopback address is not reachable. The root cause is
the same as the above.
- Empty nd6 entries are created for the IPv6 loopback addresses
only for validation reason. Doing so will eliminate as much
of the special case (loopback addresses) handling code
as possible, however, these empty nd6 entries should not
be returned to the userland applications such as the
"ndp" command.
Since both of the above issues contain common files, these
files are committed together.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: immediately
list/index locks, to protect link layer address tables. This avoids
lock order issues during interface teardown, but maintains the bug that
sysctl copy routines may be called while a non-sleepable lock is held.
Reviewed by: bz, kmacy
MFC after: 3 days
several critical bugs, including race conditions and lock order issues:
Replace the single rwlock, ifnet_lock, with two locks, an rwlock and an
sxlock. Either can be held to stablize the lists and indexes, but both
are required to write. This allows the list to be held stable in both
network interrupt contexts and sleepable user threads across sleeping
memory allocations or device driver interactions. As before, writes to
the interface list must occur from sleepable contexts.
Reviewed by: bz, julian
MFC after: 3 days
vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
virtual network stacks. Minor cleanups are done in the process,
and comments updated to reflect these changes.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)
route is also being deleted, the link-layer address table
(arp or nd6) will flush those L2 llinfo entries that match
the removed prefix.
Reviewed by: kmacy
a locked route. Thus we have to use RTFREE_LOCKED(9) to get it unlocked
and rtfree(9)d rather than just rtfree(9)d.
Since the PR was filed, new places with the same problem were added
with new code. Also check that the rt is valid before freeing it
either way there.
PR: kern/129793
Submitted by: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj@ece.gatech.edu>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Committed from: Bugathon #6
