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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Right now ipvlan has a hard dependency on CONFIG_NETFILTER and
otherwise it cannot be built. However, the only ipvlan operation
mode that actually depends on netfilter is l3s, everything else
is independent of it. Break this hard dependency such that users
are able to use ipvlan l3 mode on systems where netfilter is not
compiled in.
Therefore, this adds a hidden CONFIG_IPVLAN_L3S bool which is
defaulting to y when CONFIG_NETFILTER is set in order to retain
existing behavior for l3s. All l3s related code is refactored
into ipvlan_l3s.c that is compiled in when enabled.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Martynas Pumputis <m@lambda.lt>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
IPv6 does path selection for multipath routes deep in the lookup
functions. The next patch adds L4 hash option and needs the skb
for the forward path. To get the skb to the relevant FIB lookup
functions it needs to go through the fib rules layer, so add a
lookup_data argument to the fib_lookup_arg struct.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This changeset moves ipvlan address under RCU protection, using
a per ipvlan device spinlock to protect list mutation and RCU
read access to protect list traversal.
Also explicitly use RCU read lock to traverse the per port
ipvlans list, so that we can now perform a full address lookup
without asserting the RTNL lock.
Overall this allows the ipvlan driver to check fully for duplicate
addresses - before this commit ipv6 addresses assigned by autoconf
via prefix delegation where accepted without any check - and avoid
the following rntl assertion failure still in the same code path:
RTNL: assertion failed at drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c (124)
WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 0 at drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:124 ipvlan_addr_busy+0x97/0xa0 [ipvlan]
Modules linked in: ipvlan(E) ixgbe
CPU: 15 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/15 Tainted: G E 4.16.0-rc2.ipvlan+ #1782
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.1.7 06/16/2016
RIP: 0010:ipvlan_addr_busy+0x97/0xa0 [ipvlan]
RSP: 0018:ffff881ff9e03768 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff881fdf2a9000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000000000f6 RDI: 0000000000000300
RBP: ffff881fdf2a8000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff881ff9e034c0 R12: ffff881fe07bcc00
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffffa02002b0 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff881ff9e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc5c1a4f248 CR3: 000000207e012005 CR4: 00000000001606e0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
ipvlan_addr6_event+0x6c/0xd0 [ipvlan]
notifier_call_chain+0x49/0x90
atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x6a/0x100
ipv6_add_addr+0x5f9/0x720
addrconf_prefix_rcv_add_addr+0x244/0x3c0
addrconf_prefix_rcv+0x2f3/0x790
ndisc_router_discovery+0x633/0xb70
ndisc_rcv+0x155/0x180
icmpv6_rcv+0x4ac/0x5f0
ip6_input_finish+0x138/0x6a0
ip6_input+0x41/0x1f0
ipv6_rcv+0x4db/0x8d0
__netif_receive_skb_core+0x3d5/0xe40
netif_receive_skb_internal+0x89/0x370
napi_gro_receive+0x14f/0x1e0
ixgbe_clean_rx_irq+0x4ce/0x1020 [ixgbe]
ixgbe_poll+0x31a/0x7a0 [ixgbe]
net_rx_action+0x296/0x4f0
__do_softirq+0xcf/0x4f5
irq_exit+0xf5/0x110
do_IRQ+0x62/0x110
common_interrupt+0x91/0x91
</IRQ>
v1 -> v2: drop unneeded in_softirq check in ipvlan_addr6_validator_event()
Fixes: e9997c2938 ("ipvlan: fix check for IP addresses in control path")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently, if IPv6 is enabled on top of an ipvlan device in l3
mode, the following warning message:
Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type= [86dd]
is emitted every time that a RS is generated and dmseg is soon
filled with irrelevant messages. Replace pr_warn with pr_debug,
to preserve debuggability, without scaring the sysadmin.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
IPVlan has an hard dependency on IPv6, refactor the ipvlan code to allow
compiling it with IPv6 disabled, move duplicate code into addr_equal()
and refactor series of if-else into a switch.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
IPvlan currently scrubs packets at every location where packets may be
crossing namespace boundary. Though this is desirable, currently IPvlan
does it more than necessary. e.g. packets that are going to take
dev_forward_skb() path will get scrubbed so no point in scrubbing them
before forwarding. Another side-effect of scrubbing is that pkt-type gets
set to PACKET_HOST which overrides what was already been set by the
earlier path making erroneous delivery of the packets.
Also scrubbing packets just before calling dev_queue_xmit() has detrimental
effects since packets lose skb->sk and because of that miss prio updates,
incorrect socket back-pressure and would even break TSQ.
Fixes: b93dd49c1a ('ipvlan: Scrub skb before crossing the namespace boundary')
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This reverts commit 92ff426450.
Even though the check added is not that taxing, it's not really needed.
First of all this will be per packet cost and second thing is that the
eth_type_trans() already does this correctly. The excessive scrubbing
in IPvlan was changing the pkt-type skb metadata of the packet which
made it necessary to re-check the mac. The subsequent patch in this
series removes the faulty packet-scrub.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Packets that don't have dest mac as the mac of the master device should
not be entertained by the IPvlan rx-handler. This is mostly true as the
packet path mostly takes care of that, except when the master device is
a virtual device. As demonstrated in the following case -
ip netns add ns1
ip link add ve1 type veth peer name ve2
ip link add link ve2 name iv1 type ipvlan mode l2
ip link set dev iv1 netns ns1
ip link set ve1 up
ip link set ve2 up
ip -n ns1 link set iv1 up
ip addr add 192.168.10.1/24 dev ve1
ip -n ns1 addr 192.168.10.2/24 dev iv1
ping -c2 192.168.10.2
<Works!>
ip neigh show dev ve1
ip neigh show 192.168.10.2 lladdr <random> dev ve1
ping -c2 192.168.10.2
<Still works! Wrong!!>
This patch adds that missing check in the IPvlan rx-handler.
Reported-by: Amit Sikka <amit.sikka@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The recv flow of ipvlan l2 mode performs as same as l3 mode for
non-multicast packet, so use the existing func ipvlan_handle_mode_l3
instead of these duplicated statements in non-multicast case.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@vip.163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Current codes don't use skb->mark to assign flowi4_mark, it would
make the policy route rule with fwmark doesn't work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@vip.163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the function ipvlan_get_L3_hdr, current codes use pskb_may_pull to
make sure the skb header has enough linear room for ipv6 header. But it
would use the latter memory directly without linear check when it is icmp.
So it still may access the unepxected memory in ipvlan_addr_lookup.
Now invoke the pskb_may_pull again if it is ipv6 icmp.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@vip.163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the function ipvlan_get_L3_hdr, current codes use pskb_may_pull to
make sure the skb header has enough linear room for arp header. But it
would access the arp payload in func ipvlan_addr_lookup. So it still may
access the unepxected memory.
Now use arp_hdr_len(port->dev) instead of the arp header as the param.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@vip.163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When process the outbound packet of ipv6, we should assign the master
device to output device other than input device.
Signed-off-by: Keefe Liu <liuqifa@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is very similar to the Macvlan VEPA mode, however, there is some
difference. IPvlan uses the mac-address of the lower device, so the VEPA
mode has implications of ICMP-redirects for packets destined for its
immediate neighbors sharing same master since the packets will have same
source and dest mac. The external switch/router will send redirect msg.
Having said that, this will be useful tool in terms of debugging
since IPvlan will not switch packets within its slaves and rely completely
on the external entity as intended in 802.1Qbg.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
IPvlan has always operated in bridge mode. However there are scenarios
where each slave should be able to talk through the master device but
not necessarily across each other. Think of an environment where each
of a namespace is a private and independant customer. In this scenario
the machine which is hosting these namespaces neither want to tell who
their neighbor is nor the individual namespaces care to talk to neighbor
on short-circuited network path.
This patch implements the mode that is very similar to the 'private' mode
in macvlan where individual slaves can send and receive traffic through
the master device, just that they can not talk among slave devices.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a tap character device driver that is based on the
IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device can be created
in the same way as an ipvlan device, using 'type ipvtap', and then accessed
using the tap user space interface.
Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi <sainath.grandhi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There are three functions which would invoke the ipvlan_count_rx. They
are ipvlan_process_multicast, ipvlan_rcv_frame, and ipvlan_nf_input.
The former two functions already use the ipvlan directly before
ipvlan_count_rx, and ipvlan_nf_input gets the ipvlan from
ipvl_addr->master, it is not possible to be NULL too.
So the ipvlan pointer check is unnecessary in ipvlan_count_rx.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In an IPvlan setup when master is set in loopback mode e.g.
ethtool -K eth0 set loopback on
where eth0 is master device for IPvlan setup.
The failure is caused by the faulty logic that determines if the
packet is from TX-path vs. RX-path by just looking at the mac-
addresses on the packet while processing multicast packets.
In the loopback-mode where this crash was happening, the packets
that are sent out are reflected by the NIC and are processed on
the RX path, but mac-address check tricks into thinking this
packet is from TX path and falsely uses dev_forward_skb() to pass
packets to the slave (virtual) devices.
This patch records the path while queueing packets and eliminates
logic of looking at mac-addresses for the same decision.
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:1737!
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff921fbbc2>] dev_forward_skb+0x92/0xd0
[<ffffffffc031ac65>] ipvlan_process_multicast+0x395/0x4c0 [ipvlan]
[<ffffffffc031a9a7>] ? ipvlan_process_multicast+0xd7/0x4c0 [ipvlan]
[<ffffffff91cdfea7>] ? process_one_work+0x147/0x660
[<ffffffff91cdff09>] process_one_work+0x1a9/0x660
[<ffffffff91cdfea7>] ? process_one_work+0x147/0x660
[<ffffffff91ce086d>] worker_thread+0x11d/0x360
[<ffffffff91ce0750>] ? rescuer_thread+0x350/0x350
[<ffffffff91ce960b>] kthread+0xdb/0xe0
[<ffffffff91c05c70>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x50
[<ffffffff91ce9530>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xc0/0xc0
[<ffffffff92348b7a>] ret_from_fork+0x9a/0xd0
[<ffffffff91ce9530>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xc0/0xc0
Fixes: ba35f8588f ("ipvlan: Defer multicast / broadcast processing to a work-queue")
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
1) netif_rx() / dev_forward_skb() should not be called from process
context.
2) ipvlan_count_rx() should be called with preemption disabled.
3) We should check if ipvlan->dev is up before feeding packets
to netif_rx()
4) We need to prevent device from disappearing if some packets
are in the multicast backlog.
5) One kfree_skb() should be a consume_skb() eventually
Fixes: ba35f8588f ("ipvlan: Defer multicast / broadcast processing to
a work-queue")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In a typical IPvlan L3 setup where master is in default-ns and
each slave is into different (slave) ns. In this setup egress
packet processing for traffic originating from slave-ns will
hit all NF_HOOKs in slave-ns as well as default-ns. However same
is not true for ingress processing. All these NF_HOOKs are
hit only in the slave-ns skipping them in the default-ns.
IPvlan in L3 mode is restrictive and if admins want to deploy
iptables rules in default-ns, this asymmetric data path makes it
impossible to do so.
This patch makes use of the l3_rcv() (added as part of l3mdev
enhancements) to perform input route lookup on RX packets without
changing the skb->dev and then uses nf_hook at NF_INET_LOCAL_IN
to change the skb->dev just before handing over skb to L4.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
CC: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The earlier patch c3aaa06d5a (ipvlan: scrub skb before routing
in L3 mode.) did this but only for TX path in L3 mode. This
patch extends it for both the modes for TX/RX path.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
1. scope correction for few functions that are used in single file.
2. Adjust variables that are used in fast-path to fit into single cacheline
3. Update rcv_frame() to skip shared check for frames coming over wire
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Scrub skb before hitting the iptable hooks to ensure packets hit
these hooks. Set the xnet param only when the packet is crossing the
ns boundry so if the IPvlan slave and master belong to the same ns,
the param will be set to false.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
CC: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ipvlan_handle_frame is a rx_handler, and when it returns a value other
than RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED (here, NET_RX_DROP aka RX_HANDLER_ANOTHER),
__netif_receive_skb_core expects that the skb still exists and will
process it further, but we just freed it.
Fixes: 2ad7bf3638 ("ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pass a **skb to ipvlan_rcv_frame so that if skb_share_check returns a
new skb, we actually use it during further processing.
It's safe to ignore the new skb in the ipvlan_xmit_* functions, because
they call ipvlan_rcv_frame with local == true, so that dev_forward_skb
is called and always takes ownership of the skb.
Fixes: 2ad7bf3638 ("ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the ipv4 outbound path of an ipvlan device in l3 mode, the ifindex is
being grabbed from dev_get_iflink. This works for the physical device
case, since as the documentation of that function notes: "Physical
interfaces have the same 'ifindex' and 'iflink' values.". However, if
the master device is a veth, and the pairs are in separate net
namespaces, the route lookup will fail with -ENODEV due to outer veth
pair being in a separate namespace from the ipvlan master/routing
namespace.
ns0 | ns1 | ns2
veth0a--|--veth0b--|--ipvl0
In ipvlan_process_v4_outbound(), a packet sent from ipvl0 in the above
configuration will pass fl.flowi4_oif == veth0a to
ip_route_output_flow(), but *net == ns1.
Notice also that ipv6 processing is not using iflink. Since there is a
discrepancy in usage, fixup both v4 and v6 case to use local dev
variable.
Tested this with l3 ipvlan on top of veth, as well as with single
physical interface in the top namespace.
Signed-off-by: Brenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Compute net once in ipvlan_process_v4_outbound and
ipvlan_process_v6_outbound and store it in a variable so that net does
not need to be recomputed next time it is used.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stop hidding the sk parameter with an inline helper function and make
all of the callers pass it, so that it is clear what the function is
doing.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is confusing and silly hiding a parameter so modify all of
the callers to pass in the appropriate socket or skb->sk if
no socket is known.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
All structures used in traffic forwarding are rcu-protected:
ipvl_addr, ipvl_dev and ipvl_port. Thus we can unhash addresses
without synchronization. We'll anyway hash it back into the same
bucket: in worst case lockless lookup will scan hash once again.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Processing multicast / broadcast in fast path is performance draining
and having more links means more cloning and bringing performance
down further.
Broadcast; in particular, need to be given to all the virtual links.
Earlier tricks of enabling broadcast bit for IPv4 only interfaces are not
really working since it fails autoconf. Which means enabling broadcast
for all the links if protocol specific hacks do not have to be added into
the driver.
This patch defers all (incoming as well as outgoing) multicast traffic to
a work-queue leaving only the unicast traffic in the fast-path. Now if we
need to apply any additional tricks to further reduce the impact of this
(multicast / broadcast) type of traffic, it can be implemented while
processing this work without affecting the fast-path.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
drivers/net/usb/sr9800.c
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
include/linux/usb/usbnet.h
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
The TCP conflicts were overlapping changes. In 'net' we added a
READ_ONCE() to the socket cached RX route read, whilst in 'net-next'
Eric Dumazet touched the surrounding code dealing with how mini
sockets are handled.
With USB, it's a case of the same bug fix first going into net-next
and then I cherry picked it back into net.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The goal of this patch is to prepare the removal of the iflink field. It
introduces a new ndo function, which will be implemented by virtual interfaces.
There is no functional change into this patch. All readers of iflink field
now call dev_get_iflink().
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When an ipvlan interface is down, its addresses are not on the hash list.
Fix checks for existence of addresses not to depend on the hash list, walk
through all interface addresses instead.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adding and removing to the 'ipvlans' list is already done using _rcu list
operations.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When ipvlan interface with IP addresses attached is brought down and then
deleted, the assigned addresses are deleted twice from the address hash
list, first on the interface down and second on the link deletion.
Similarly, when an address is added while the interface is down, it is added
second time once the interface is brought up.
When the interface is down, the addresses should be kept off the hash list
for performance reasons. Ensure this is true, which also fixes the double add
problem. To fix the double free, check whether the address is hashed before
removing it.
Reported-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
They are all either written once or extremly rarely (e.g. from init
code), so we can move them to the .data..read_mostly section.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The ip6_route_output() always returns a valid dst pointer unlike in IPv4
case. So the validation has to be different from the IPv4 path. Correcting
that error in this patch.
This was picked up by a static checker with a following warning -
drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:380 ipvlan_process_v6_outbound()
warn: 'dst' isn't an ERR_PTR
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This driver is very similar to the macvlan driver except that it
uses L3 on the frame to determine the logical interface while
functioning as packet dispatcher. It inherits L2 of the master
device hence the packets on wire will have the same L2 for all
the packets originating from all virtual devices off of the same
master device.
This driver was developed keeping the namespace use-case in
mind. Hence most of the examples given here take that as the
base setup where main-device belongs to the default-ns and
virtual devices are assigned to the additional namespaces.
The device operates in two different modes and the difference
in these two modes in primarily in the TX side.
(a) L2 mode : In this mode, the device behaves as a L2 device.
TX processing upto L2 happens on the stack of the virtual device
associated with (namespace). Packets are switched after that
into the main device (default-ns) and queued for xmit.
RX processing is simple and all multicast, broadcast (if
applicable), and unicast belonging to the address(es) are
delivered to the virtual devices.
(b) L3 mode : In this mode, the device behaves like a L3 device.
TX processing upto L3 happens on the stack of the virtual device
associated with (namespace). Packets are switched to the
main-device (default-ns) for the L2 processing. Hence the routing
table of the default-ns will be used in this mode.
RX processins is somewhat similar to the L2 mode except that in
this mode only Unicast packets are delivered to the virtual device
while main-dev will handle all other packets.
The devices can be added using the "ip" command from the iproute2
package -
ip link add link <master> <virtual> type ipvlan mode [ l2 | l3 ]
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon.philips@coreos.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thomas Gleixner