Scenario: * Multicast frame send from a BLA backbone (multiple nodes with their bat0 bridged together, with BLA enabled)
Issue: * BLA backbone nodes receive the frame multiple times on bat0
For multicast frames received via batman-adv broadcast packets the originator of the broadcast packet is checked before decapsulating and forwarding the frame to bat0 (batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw()-> batadv_recv_bcast_packet()). If it came from a node which shares the same BLA backbone with us then it is not forwarded to bat0 to avoid a loop.
When sending a multicast frame in a non-4-address batman-adv unicast packet we are currently missing this check - and cannot do so because the batman-adv unicast packet has no originator address field.
However, we can simply fix this on the sender side by only sending the multicast frame via unicasts to interested nodes which do not share the same BLA backbone with us. This also nicely avoids some unnecessary transmissions on mesh side.
Note that no infinite loop was observed, probably because of dropping via batadv_interface_tx()->batadv_bla_tx(). However the duplicates still utterly confuse switches/bridges, ICMPv6 duplicate address detection and neighbor discovery and therefore leads to long delays before being able to establish TCP connections, for instance. And it also leads to the Linux bridge printing messages like: "br-lan: received packet on eth1 with own address as source address ..."
Fixes: 405cc1e5a81e ("batman-adv: Modified forwarding behaviour for multicast packets") Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue --- net/batman-adv/multicast.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- net/batman-adv/multicast.h | 5 ++++ net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 5 ++-- 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/multicast.c b/net/batman-adv/multicast.c index bdc4a1fb..ca24a2e5 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/multicast.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/multicast.c @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ #include <uapi/linux/batadv_packet.h> #include <uapi/linux/batman_adv.h>
+#include "bridge_loop_avoidance.h" #include "hard-interface.h" #include "hash.h" #include "log.h" @@ -1434,6 +1435,35 @@ batadv_mcast_forw_mode(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb, return BATADV_FORW_ALL; }
+/** + * batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig() - send a multicast packet to an originator + * @bat_priv: the bat priv with all the soft interface information + * @skb: the multicast packet to send + * @vid: the vlan identifier + * @orig_node: the originator to send the packet to + * + * Return: NET_XMIT_DROP in case of error or NET_XMIT_SUCCESS otherwise. + */ +int batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, + struct sk_buff *skb, + unsigned short vid, + struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node) +{ + /* Avoid sending multicast-in-unicast packets to other BLA + * gateways - they already got the frame from the LAN side + * we share with them. + * TODO: Refactor to take BLA into account earlier, to avoid + * reducing the mcast_fanout count. + */ + if (batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw_orig(bat_priv, orig_node->orig, vid)) { + dev_kfree_skb(skb); + return NET_XMIT_SUCCESS; + } + + return batadv_send_skb_unicast(bat_priv, skb, BATADV_UNICAST, 0, + orig_node, vid); +} + /** * batadv_mcast_forw_tt() - forwards a packet to multicast listeners * @bat_priv: the bat priv with all the soft interface information @@ -1471,8 +1501,8 @@ batadv_mcast_forw_tt(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb, break; }
- batadv_send_skb_unicast(bat_priv, newskb, BATADV_UNICAST, 0, - orig_entry->orig_node, vid); + batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig(bat_priv, newskb, vid, + orig_entry->orig_node); } rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -1513,8 +1543,7 @@ batadv_mcast_forw_want_all_ipv4(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, break; }
- batadv_send_skb_unicast(bat_priv, newskb, BATADV_UNICAST, 0, - orig_node, vid); + batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig(bat_priv, newskb, vid, orig_node); } rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; @@ -1551,8 +1580,7 @@ batadv_mcast_forw_want_all_ipv6(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, break; }
- batadv_send_skb_unicast(bat_priv, newskb, BATADV_UNICAST, 0, - orig_node, vid); + batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig(bat_priv, newskb, vid, orig_node); } rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; @@ -1618,8 +1646,7 @@ batadv_mcast_forw_want_all_rtr4(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, break; }
- batadv_send_skb_unicast(bat_priv, newskb, BATADV_UNICAST, 0, - orig_node, vid); + batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig(bat_priv, newskb, vid, orig_node); } rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; @@ -1656,8 +1683,7 @@ batadv_mcast_forw_want_all_rtr6(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, break; }
- batadv_send_skb_unicast(bat_priv, newskb, BATADV_UNICAST, 0, - orig_node, vid); + batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig(bat_priv, newskb, vid, orig_node); } rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; diff --git a/net/batman-adv/multicast.h b/net/batman-adv/multicast.h index ebf82599..08eb02c3 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/multicast.h +++ b/net/batman-adv/multicast.h @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ enum batadv_forw_mode batadv_mcast_forw_mode(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb, struct batadv_orig_node **mcast_single_orig);
+int batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, + struct sk_buff *skb, + unsigned short vid, + struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node); + int batadv_mcast_forw_send(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned short vid);
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c index 23833a0b..3d037b17 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c @@ -364,9 +364,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t batadv_interface_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, goto dropped; ret = batadv_send_skb_via_gw(bat_priv, skb, vid); } else if (mcast_single_orig) { - ret = batadv_send_skb_unicast(bat_priv, skb, - BATADV_UNICAST, 0, - mcast_single_orig, vid); + ret = batadv_mcast_forw_send_orig(bat_priv, skb, vid, + mcast_single_orig); } else if (forw_mode == BATADV_FORW_SOME) { ret = batadv_mcast_forw_send(bat_priv, skb, vid); } else {