The change ensures that ifnet objects in the ifnet list aren't freed during
list iterations by using pserialize(9) and psref(9).
Note that the change adds a pslist(9) for ifnet but doesn't remove the
original ifnet list (ifnet_list) to avoid breaking kvm(3) users. We
shouldn't use the original list in the kernel anymore.
rt_gwroute of rtentry is a reference to a rtentry of the gateway
for a rtentry with RTF_GATEWAY. That was used by L2 (arp and ndp)
to look up L2 addresses. By separating L2 nexthop caches, we don't
need a route for the purpose and we can stop using rt_gwroute.
By doing so, we can reduce referencing and modifying rtentries,
which makes it easy to apply a lock (and/or psref) to the
routing table and rtentries.
One issue to do this is to keep RTF_REJECT behavior. It seems it
was broken when we moved rtalloc1 things from L2 output routines
(e.g., ether_output) to ip_hresolv_output, but (fortunately?)
it works unexpectedly. What we mistook are:
- RTF_REJECT was checked for any routes in L2 output routines,
but in ip_hresolv_output it is checked only when the route
is RTF_GATEWAY
- The RTF_REJECT check wasn't copied to IPv6 (nd6_output)
It seems that rt_gwroute checks hid the mistakes and it looked
work (unexpectedly) and removing rt_gwroute checks unveil the
issue. So we need to fix RTF_REJECT checks in ip_hresolv_output
and also add them to nd6_output.
One more point we have to care is returning an errno; we need
to mimic looutput behavior. Originally RTF_REJECT check was
done either in L2 output routines or in looutput. The latter is
applied when a reject route directs to a loopback interface.
However, now RTF_REJECT check is done before looutput so to keep
the original behavior we need to return an errno which looutput
chooses. Added rt_check_reject_route does such tweaks.
By this change, nexthop caches (IP-MAC address pair) are not stored
in the routing table anymore. Instead nexthop caches are stored in
each network interface; we already have lltable/llentry data structure
for this purpose. This change also obsoletes the concept of cloning/cloned
routes. Cloned routes no longer exist while cloning routes still exist
with renamed to connected routes.
Noticeable changes are:
- Nexthop caches aren't listed in route show/netstat -r
- sysctl(NET_RT_DUMP) doesn't return them
- If RTF_LLDATA is specified, it returns nexthop caches
- Several definitions of routing flags and messages are removed
- RTF_CLONING, RTF_XRESOLVE, RTF_LLINFO, RTF_CLONED and RTM_RESOLVE
- RTF_CONNECTED is added
- It has the same value of RTF_CLONING for backward compatibility
- route's -xresolve, -[no]cloned and -llinfo options are removed
- -[no]cloning remains because it seems there are users
- -[no]connected is introduced and recommended
to be used instead of -[no]cloning
- route show/netstat -r drops some flags
- 'L' and 'c' are not seen anymore
- 'C' now indicates a connected route
- Gateway value of a route of an interface address is now not
a L2 address but "link#N" like a connected (cloning) route
- Proxy ARP: "arp -s ... pub" doesn't create a route
You can know details of behavior changes by seeing diffs under tests/.
Proposed on tech-net and tech-kern:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2016/03/11/msg005701.html
lltable and llentry were introduced to replace ARP cache data structure
for further restructuring of the routing table: L2 nexthop cache
separation. This change replaces the NDP cache data structure
(llinfo_nd6) with them as well as ARP.
One noticeable change is for neighbor cache GC mechanism that was
introduced to prevent IPv6 DoS attacks. net.inet6.ip6.neighborgcthresh
was the max number of caches that we store in the system. After
introducing lltable/llentry, the value is changed to be per-interface
basis because lltable/llentry stores neighbor caches in each interface
separately. And the change brings one degradation; the old GC mechanism
dropped exceeded packets based on LRU while the new implementation drops
packets in order from the beginning of lltable (a hash table + linked
lists). It would be improved in the future.
Added functions in in6.c come from FreeBSD (as of r286629) and are
tweaked for NetBSD.
Proposed on tech-kern and tech-net.
This is a restructuring for coming changes to nd6 (replacing
llinfo_nd6 with llentry). Once we have a lock of llinfo_nd6,
we need to pass it to nd6_ns_output with holding the lock.
However, in a function subsequent to nd6_ns_output, the llinfo_nd6
may be looked up, i.e., its lock would be acquired again.
To avoid such a situation, pass only required data (in6_addr) to
nd6_ns_output instead of passing whole llinfo_nd6.
Inspired by FreeBSD
We have to check and avoid to rtfree the original rtentry passed to
nd6_output even when manipulating gateway routes.
This fixes panic on assertion "ro->_ro_rt ==NULL || ro->_ro_rt->rt_refcnt > 0"
failure and probably PR kern/50161.
Some codes in sys/net* use time_second to manage time periods such as
cache expirations. However, time_second doesn't increase monotonically
and can leap by say settimeofday(2) according to time_second(9). We
should use time_uptime instead of it to avoid such time leaps.
This change replaces time_second with time_uptime. Additionally it
converts a time based on time_uptime to a time based on time_second
when the kernel passes the time to userland programs that expect
the latter, and vice versa.
Note that we shouldn't leak time_uptime to other hosts over the
netowrk. My investigation shows there is no such leak:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2015/08/06/msg005332.html
Discussed on tech-kern and tech-net.
rt_refcnt of rtentry was used in bad manners, for example, direct rt_refcnt++
and rt_refcnt-- outside route.c, "rt->rt_refcnt++; rtfree(rt);" idiom, and
touching rt after rt->rt_refcnt--.
These abuses seem to be needed because rt_refcnt manages only references
between rtentry and doesn't take care of references during packet processing
(IOW references from local variables). In order to reduce the above abuses,
the latter cases should be counted by rt_refcnt as well as the former cases.
This change improves consistency of use of rt_refcnt:
- rtentry is always accessed with rt_refcnt incremented
- rtentry's rt_refcnt is decremented after use (rtfree is always used instead
of rt_refcnt--)
- functions returning rtentry increment its rt_refcnt (and caller rtfree it)
Note that rt_refcnt prevents rtentry from being freed but doesn't prevent
rtentry from being updated. Toward MP-safe, we need to provide another
protection for rtentry, e.g., locks. (Or introduce a better data structure
allowing concurrent readers during updates.)
per-interface data, make sure to call nd6_purge() with it to remove
routing entries pointing to the going interface.
When we should happen to call this function again later, with the data
already gone, just return.
Fixes PR kern/49682, ok: christos.
If enabled, check for a duplicated link-local address and abort enabling
as per RFC 4862, section 5.4.5. If allowed to enable, perform DAD
on the tentative addresses.
Taken from FreeBSD.
