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Use addrconf_addr_gen() to generate IPv6 link-local addresses on GRE devices in most cases and fall back to using add_v4_addrs() only in case the GRE configuration is incompatible with addrconf_addr_gen(). GRE used to use addrconf_addr_gen() until commite5dd729460("ip/ip6_gre: use the same logic as SIT interfaces when computing v6LL address") restricted this use to gretap and ip6gretap devices, and created add_v4_addrs() (borrowed from SIT) for non-Ethernet GRE ones. The original problem came when commit9af28511be("addrconf: refuse isatap eui64 for INADDR_ANY") made __ipv6_isatap_ifid() fail when its addr parameter was 0. The commit says that this would create an invalid address, however, I couldn't find any RFC saying that the generated interface identifier would be wrong. Anyway, since gre over IPv4 devices pass their local tunnel address to __ipv6_isatap_ifid(), that commit broke their IPv6 link-local address generation when the local address was unspecified. Then commite5dd729460("ip/ip6_gre: use the same logic as SIT interfaces when computing v6LL address") tried to fix that case by defining add_v4_addrs() and calling it to generate the IPv6 link-local address instead of using addrconf_addr_gen() (apart for gretap and ip6gretap devices, which would still use the regular addrconf_addr_gen(), since they have a MAC address). That broke several use cases because add_v4_addrs() isn't properly integrated into the rest of IPv6 Neighbor Discovery code. Several of these shortcomings have been fixed over time, but add_v4_addrs() remains broken on several aspects. In particular, it doesn't send any Router Sollicitations, so the SLAAC process doesn't start until the interface receives a Router Advertisement. Also, add_v4_addrs() mostly ignores the address generation mode of the interface (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/addr_gen_mode), thus breaking the IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_RANDOM and IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_STABLE_PRIVACY cases. Fix the situation by using add_v4_addrs() only in the specific scenario where the normal method would fail. That is, for interfaces that have all of the following characteristics: * run over IPv4, * transport IP packets directly, not Ethernet (that is, not gretap interfaces), * tunnel endpoint is INADDR_ANY (that is, 0), * device address generation mode is EUI64. In all other cases, revert back to the regular addrconf_addr_gen(). Also, remove the special case for ip6gre interfaces in add_v4_addrs(), since ip6gre devices now always use addrconf_addr_gen() instead. Note: This patch was originally applied as commit183185a18f("gre: Fix IPv6 link-local address generation."). However, it was then reverted by commitfc486c2d06("Revert "gre: Fix IPv6 link-local address generation."") because it uncovered another bug that ended up breaking net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh. That other bug has now been fixed by commit4d0ab3a688("ipv6: Start path selection from the first nexthop"). Therefore we can now revive this GRE patch (no changes since original commit183185a18f("gre: Fix IPv6 link-local address generation."). Fixes:e5dd729460("ip/ip6_gre: use the same logic as SIT interfaces when computing v6LL address") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a88cc5c4811af36007645d610c95102dccb360a6.1746225214.git.gnault@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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