Commit 765c9c63 authored by Erik Kline's avatar Erik Kline Committed by David S. Miller

neigh: Better handling of transition to NUD_PROBE state

[1] When entering NUD_PROBE state via neigh_update(), perhaps received
    from userspace, correctly (re)initialize the probes count to zero.

    This is useful for forcing revalidation of a neighbor (for example
    if the host is attempting to do DNA [IPv4 4436, IPv6 6059]).

[2] Notify listeners when a neighbor goes into NUD_PROBE state.

    By sending notifications on entry to NUD_PROBE state listeners get
    more timely warnings of imminent connectivity issues.

    The current notifications on entry to NUD_STALE have somewhat
    limited usefulness: NUD_STALE is a perfectly normal state, as is
    NUD_DELAY, whereas notifications on entry to NUD_FAILURE come after
    a neighbor reachability problem has been confirmed (typically after
    three probes).
Signed-off-by: default avatarErik Kline <ek@google.com>
Acked-By: default avatarLorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 06b2c61c
......@@ -913,6 +913,7 @@ static void neigh_timer_handler(unsigned long arg)
neigh->nud_state = NUD_PROBE;
neigh->updated = jiffies;
atomic_set(&neigh->probes, 0);
notify = 1;
next = now + NEIGH_VAR(neigh->parms, RETRANS_TIME);
}
} else {
......@@ -1144,6 +1145,8 @@ int neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr, u8 new,
if (new != old) {
neigh_del_timer(neigh);
if (new & NUD_PROBE)
atomic_set(&neigh->probes, 0);
if (new & NUD_IN_TIMER)
neigh_add_timer(neigh, (jiffies +
((new & NUD_REACHABLE) ?
......
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