On 3/29/18 6:44 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> Donald reported that IPv6 route leaking between VRFs is not working.
> The root cause is the strict argument in the call to rt6_lookup when
> validating the nexthop spec.
>
> ip6_route_check_nh validates the gateway and device (if given) of a
> route spec. It in turn could call rt6_lookup (e.g., lookup in a given
> table did not succeed so it falls back to a full lookup) and if so
> sets the strict argument to 1. That means if the egress device is given,
> the route lookup needs to return a result with the same device. This
> strict requirement does not work with VRFs (IPv4 or IPv6) because the
> oif in the flow struct is overridden with the index of the VRF device
> to trigger a match on the l3mdev rule and force the lookup to its table.
>
> The right long term solution is to add an l3mdev index to the flow
> struct such that the oif is not overridden. That solution will not
> backport well, so this patch aims for a simpler solution to relax the
> strict argument if the route spec device is an l3mdev slave. As done
> in other places, use the FLOWI_FLAG_SKIP_NH_OIF to know that the
> RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE flag needs to be removed.
>
Forgot the fixes tag:
Fixes: ca254490c8df ("net: Add VRF support to IPv6 stack")
Dave: I can resend if needed. Key backports are to 4.14 and 4.9. Those
are the only LTS releases affected.
> Reported-by: Donald Sharp <sha...@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
> ---
> net/ipv6/route.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
> index b33d057ac5eb..fc74352fac12 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/route.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
> @@ -919,6 +919,9 @@ static struct rt6_info *ip6_pol_route_lookup(struct net
> *net,
> struct rt6_info *rt, *rt_cache;
> struct fib6_node *fn;
>
> + if (fl6->flowi6_flags & FLOWI_FLAG_SKIP_NH_OIF)
> + flags &= ~RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE;
> +
> rcu_read_lock();
> fn = fib6_lookup(&table->tb6_root, &fl6->daddr, &fl6->saddr);
> restart:
>
