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authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>2013-09-21 06:32:34 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-09-26 13:46:10 -0400
commit4ed377e36ec2f385484d12e516faf88516fad31c (patch)
tree14e4f6cc36ad9f39bb03573b025a7c1e39b52bff /net
parentfd97ba5d5bf97d3dbca6f6fbbd3cad82eece60fd (diff)
downloadlinux-4ed377e36ec2f385484d12e516faf88516fad31c.tar.bz2
net: neighbour: use source address of last enqueued packet for solicitation
Currently we always use the first member of the arp_queue to determine the sender ip address of the arp packet (or in case of IPv6 - source address of the ndisc packet). This skb is fixed as long as the queue is not drained by a complete purge because of a timeout or by a successful response. If the first packet enqueued on the arp_queue is from a local application with a manually set source address and the to be discovered system does some kind of uRPF checks on the source address in the arp packet the resolving process hangs until a timeout and restarts. This hurts communication with the participating network node. This could be mitigated a bit if we use the latest enqueued skb's source address for the resolving process, which is not as static as the arp_queue's head. This change of the source address could result in better recovery of a failed solicitation. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/neighbour.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 6072610a8672..ca15f32821fb 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ static void neigh_invalidate(struct neighbour *neigh)
static void neigh_probe(struct neighbour *neigh)
__releases(neigh->lock)
{
- struct sk_buff *skb = skb_peek(&neigh->arp_queue);
+ struct sk_buff *skb = skb_peek_tail(&neigh->arp_queue);
/* keep skb alive even if arp_queue overflows */
if (skb)
skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);