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[patch]: Introduce sysctl param arp_evict_no_carrier #293

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[patch]: Introduce sysctl param arp_evict_no_carrier
This PR is to backport the following commits to kernel v5.10:

torvalds/linux@fcdb44d

The commit above is to introduce a new sysctl parameter
`arp_evict_no_carrier`.

Signed-off-by: Longxiang Lyu <lolv@microsoft.com>
lolyu committed Sep 27, 2022

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From fcdb44d08a95003c3d040aecdee286156ec6f34e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 10:36:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] net: arp: introduce arp_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter

This change introduces a new sysctl parameter, arp_evict_nocarrier.
When set (default) the ARP cache will be cleared on a NOCARRIER event.
This new option has been defaulted to '1' which maintains existing
behavior.

Clearing the ARP cache on NOCARRIER is relatively new, introduced by:

commit 859bd2ef1fc1110a8031b967ee656c53a6260a76
Author: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Oct 11 20:33:49 2018 -0700

net: Evict neighbor entries on carrier down

The reason for this changes is to prevent the ARP cache from being
cleared when a wireless device roams. Specifically for wireless roams
the ARP cache should not be cleared because the underlying network has not
changed. Clearing the ARP cache in this case can introduce significant
delays sending out packets after a roam.

A user reported such a situation here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CACsRnHWa47zpx3D1oDq9JYnZWniS8yBwW1h0WAVZ6vrbwL_S0w@mail.gmail.com/

After some investigation it was found that the kernel was holding onto
packets until ARP finished which resulted in this 1 second delay. It
was also found that the first ARP who-has was never responded to,
which is actually what caues the delay. This change is more or less
working around this behavior, but again, there is no reason to clear
the cache on a roam anyways.

As for the unanswered who-has, we know the packet made it OTA since
it was seen while monitoring. Why it never received a response is
unknown. In any case, since this is a problem on the AP side of things
all that can be done is to work around it until it is solved.

Some background on testing/reproducing the packet delay:

Hardware:
- 2 access points configured for Fast BSS Transition (Though I don't
see why regular reassociation wouldn't have the same behavior)
- Wireless station running IWD as supplicant
- A device on network able to respond to pings (I used one of the APs)

Procedure:
- Connect to first AP
- Ping once to establish an ARP entry
- Start a tcpdump
- Roam to second AP
- Wait for operstate UP event, and note the timestamp
- Start pinging

Results:

Below is the tcpdump after UP. It was recorded the interface went UP at
10:42:01.432875.

10:42:01.461871 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28
10:42:02.497976 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.254.1 tell 192.168.254.71, length 28
10:42:02.507162 ARP, Reply 192.168.254.1 is-at ac:86:74:55:b0:20, length 46
10:42:02.507185 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 1, length 64
10:42:02.507205 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 2, length 64
10:42:02.507212 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 3, length 64
10:42:02.507219 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 4, length 64
10:42:02.507225 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 5, length 64
10:42:02.507232 IP 192.168.254.71 > 192.168.254.1: ICMP echo request, id 52792, seq 6, length 64
10:42:02.515373 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 1, length 64
10:42:02.521399 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 2, length 64
10:42:02.521612 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 3, length 64
10:42:02.521941 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 4, length 64
10:42:02.522419 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 5, length 64
10:42:02.523085 IP 192.168.254.1 > 192.168.254.71: ICMP echo reply, id 52792, seq 6, length 64

You can see the first ARP who-has went out very quickly after UP, but
was never responded to. Nearly a second later the kernel retries and
gets a response. Only then do the ping packets go out. If an ARP entry
is manually added prior to UP (after the cache is cleared) it is seen
that the first ping is never responded to, so its not only an issue with
ARP but with data packets in general.

As mentioned prior, the wireless interface was also monitored to verify
the ping/ARP packet made it OTA which was observed to be true.

Signed-off-by: James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 9 +++++++++
include/linux/inetdevice.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/ip.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h | 1 +
net/ipv4/arp.c | 11 ++++++++++-
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 4 ++++
6 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 16b8bf72feaf..18fde4ed7a5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -1611,6 +1611,15 @@ arp_accept - BOOLEAN
gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
if this setting is on or off.

+arp_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN
+ Clears the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events. This option is important for
+ wireless devices where the ARP cache should not be cleared when roaming
+ between access points on the same network. In most cases this should
+ remain as the default (1).
+
+ - 1 - (default): Clear the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events
+ - 0 - Do not clear ARP cache on NOCARRIER events
+
mcast_solicit - INTEGER
The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults
diff --git a/include/linux/inetdevice.h b/include/linux/inetdevice.h
index a038feb63f23..518b484a7f07 100644
--- a/include/linux/inetdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/inetdevice.h
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ static inline void ipv4_devconf_setall(struct in_device *in_dev)
#define IN_DEV_ARP_ANNOUNCE(in_dev) IN_DEV_MAXCONF((in_dev), ARP_ANNOUNCE)
#define IN_DEV_ARP_IGNORE(in_dev) IN_DEV_MAXCONF((in_dev), ARP_IGNORE)
#define IN_DEV_ARP_NOTIFY(in_dev) IN_DEV_MAXCONF((in_dev), ARP_NOTIFY)
+#define IN_DEV_ARP_EVICT_NOCARRIER(in_dev) IN_DEV_ANDCONF((in_dev), \
+ ARP_EVICT_NOCARRIER)

struct in_ifaddr {
struct hlist_node hash;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ip.h b/include/uapi/linux/ip.h
index e42d13b55cf3..e00bbb9c47bb 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ip.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ip.h
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ enum
IPV4_DEVCONF_DROP_UNICAST_IN_L2_MULTICAST,
IPV4_DEVCONF_DROP_GRATUITOUS_ARP,
IPV4_DEVCONF_BC_FORWARDING,
+ IPV4_DEVCONF_ARP_EVICT_NOCARRIER,
__IPV4_DEVCONF_MAX
};

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
index 1e05d3caa712..6a3b194c50fe 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ enum
NET_IPV4_CONF_PROMOTE_SECONDARIES=20,
NET_IPV4_CONF_ARP_ACCEPT=21,
NET_IPV4_CONF_ARP_NOTIFY=22,
+ NET_IPV4_CONF_ARP_EVICT_NOCARRIER=23,
};

/* /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter */
diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index 922dd73e5740..857a144b1ea9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -1247,6 +1247,8 @@ static int arp_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
{
struct net_device *dev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
struct netdev_notifier_change_info *change_info;
+ struct in_device *in_dev;
+ bool evict_nocarrier;

switch (event) {
case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
@@ -1257,7 +1259,14 @@ static int arp_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
change_info = ptr;
if (change_info->flags_changed & IFF_NOARP)
neigh_changeaddr(&arp_tbl, dev);
- if (!netif_carrier_ok(dev))
+
+ in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
+ if (!in_dev)
+ evict_nocarrier = true;
+ else
+ evict_nocarrier = IN_DEV_ARP_EVICT_NOCARRIER(in_dev);
+
+ if (evict_nocarrier && !netif_carrier_ok(dev))
neigh_carrier_down(&arp_tbl, dev);
break;
default:
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index f4468980b675..ec73a0d52d3e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static struct ipv4_devconf ipv4_devconf = {
[IPV4_DEVCONF_SHARED_MEDIA - 1] = 1,
[IPV4_DEVCONF_IGMPV2_UNSOLICITED_REPORT_INTERVAL - 1] = 10000 /*ms*/,
[IPV4_DEVCONF_IGMPV3_UNSOLICITED_REPORT_INTERVAL - 1] = 1000 /*ms*/,
+ [IPV4_DEVCONF_ARP_EVICT_NOCARRIER - 1] = 1,
},
};

@@ -87,6 +88,7 @@ static struct ipv4_devconf ipv4_devconf_dflt = {
[IPV4_DEVCONF_ACCEPT_SOURCE_ROUTE - 1] = 1,
[IPV4_DEVCONF_IGMPV2_UNSOLICITED_REPORT_INTERVAL - 1] = 10000 /*ms*/,
[IPV4_DEVCONF_IGMPV3_UNSOLICITED_REPORT_INTERVAL - 1] = 1000 /*ms*/,
+ [IPV4_DEVCONF_ARP_EVICT_NOCARRIER - 1] = 1,
},
};

@@ -2532,6 +2534,8 @@ static struct devinet_sysctl_table {
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ARP_IGNORE, "arp_ignore"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ARP_ACCEPT, "arp_accept"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ARP_NOTIFY, "arp_notify"),
+ DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ARP_EVICT_NOCARRIER,
+ "arp_evict_nocarrier"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(PROXY_ARP_PVLAN, "proxy_arp_pvlan"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(FORCE_IGMP_VERSION,
"force_igmp_version"),
--
2.17.1

3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions patch/series
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ kernel-compat-always-include-linux-compat.h-from-net-compat.patch
# Backport from 5.15
0001-x86-platform-Increase-maximum-GPIO-number-for-X86_64.patch

# Backport from 5.16
0001-net-arp-introduce-arp_evict_nocarrier-sysctl-paramet.patch

# Backport from 5.19
0001-net-ipv6-Introduce-accept_unsolicited_na-knob-to-imp.patch
0002-net-ipv6-Expand-and-rename-accept_unsolicited_na-to-.patch