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authorRobert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>2017-01-26 19:02:24 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-30 21:00:58 +0100
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parentMerge branch 'net-dsa-bcm_sf2-CFP-support' (diff)
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net: Avoid receiving packets with an l3mdev on unbound UDP sockets
Packets arriving in a VRF currently are delivered to UDP sockets that aren't bound to any interface. TCP defaults to not delivering packets arriving in a VRF to unbound sockets. IP route lookup and socket transmit both assume that unbound means using the default table and UDP applications that haven't been changed to be aware of VRFs may not function correctly in this case since they may not be able to handle overlapping IP address ranges, or be able to send packets back to the original sender if required. So add a sysctl, udp_l3mdev_accept, to control this behaviour with it being analgous to the existing tcp_l3mdev_accept, namely to allow a process to have a VRF-global listen socket. Have this default to off as this is the behaviour that users will expect, given that there is no explicit mechanism to set unmodified VRF-unaware application into a default VRF. Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/vrf.txt7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 17f2e7791042..fc73eeb7b3b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -721,6 +721,13 @@ tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
UDP variables:
+udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
+ Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
+ across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
+ being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
+ originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
+ CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
+
udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
index 755dab856392..3918dae964d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
@@ -98,10 +98,11 @@ VRF device:
or to specify the output device using cmsg and IP_PKTINFO.
-TCP services running in the default VRF context (ie., not bound to any VRF
-device) can work across all VRF domains by enabling the tcp_l3mdev_accept
-sysctl option:
+TCP & UDP services running in the default VRF context (ie., not bound
+to any VRF device) can work across all VRF domains by enabling the
+tcp_l3mdev_accept and udp_l3mdev_accept sysctl options:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_l3mdev_accept=1
+ sysctl -w net.ipv4.udp_l3mdev_accept=1
netfilter rules on the VRF device can be used to limit access to services
running in the default VRF context as well.