net, neigh: Enable state migration between NUD_PERMANENT and NTF_USE

Currently, it is not possible to migrate a neighbor entry between NUD_PERMANENT
state and NTF_USE flag with a dynamic NUD state from a user space control plane.
Similarly, it is not possible to add/remove NTF_EXT_LEARNED flag from an existing
neighbor entry in combination with NTF_USE flag.

This is due to the latter directly calling into neigh_event_send() without any
meta data updates as happening in __neigh_update(). Thus, to enable this use
case, extend the latter with a NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE flag where we break the
NUD_PERMANENT state in particular so that a latter neigh_event_send() is able
to re-resolve a neighbor entry.

Before fix, NUD_PERMANENT -> NUD_* & NTF_USE:

  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a PERMANENT
  [...]
  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use extern_learn
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a PERMANENT
  [...]

As can be seen, despite the admin-triggered replace, the entry remains in the
NUD_PERMANENT state.

After fix, NUD_PERMANENT -> NUD_* & NTF_USE:

  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a PERMANENT
  [...]
  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use extern_learn
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a extern_learn REACHABLE
  [...]
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a extern_learn STALE
  [...]
  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a PERMANENT
  [...]

After the fix, the admin-triggered replace switches to a dynamic state from
the NTF_USE flag which triggered a new neighbor resolution. Likewise, we can
transition back from there, if needed, into NUD_PERMANENT.

Similar before/after behavior can be observed for below transitions:

Before fix, NTF_USE -> NTF_USE | NTF_EXT_LEARNED -> NTF_USE:

  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a REACHABLE
  [...]
  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use extern_learn
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a REACHABLE
  [...]

After fix, NTF_USE -> NTF_USE | NTF_EXT_LEARNED -> NTF_USE:

  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a REACHABLE
  [...]
  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use extern_learn
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a extern_learn REACHABLE
  [...]
  # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use
  # ./ip/ip n
  192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a REACHABLE
  [..]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 8457d5f97022..3e58037a8ae6 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ static void neigh_update_hhs(struct neighbour *neigh)
 				lladdr instead of overriding it
 				if it is different.
 	NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ADMIN	means that the change is administrative.
-
+	NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE	means that the entry is user triggered.
 	NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE_ISROUTER allows to override existing
 				NTF_ROUTER flag.
 	NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ISROUTER	indicates if the neighbour is known as
@@ -1255,6 +1255,12 @@ static int __neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr,
 		goto out;
 
 	ext_learn_change = neigh_update_ext_learned(neigh, flags, &notify);
+	if (flags & NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE) {
+		new = old & ~NUD_PERMANENT;
+		neigh->nud_state = new;
+		err = 0;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	if (!(new & NUD_VALID)) {
 		neigh_del_timer(neigh);
@@ -1963,22 +1969,20 @@ static int neigh_add(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 
 	if (protocol)
 		neigh->protocol = protocol;
-
 	if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_EXT_LEARNED)
 		flags |= NEIGH_UPDATE_F_EXT_LEARNED;
-
 	if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_ROUTER)
 		flags |= NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ISROUTER;
+	if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE)
+		flags |= NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE;
 
-	if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE) {
+	err = __neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags,
+			     NETLINK_CB(skb).portid, extack);
+	if (!err && ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE) {
 		neigh_event_send(neigh, NULL);
 		err = 0;
-	} else
-		err = __neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags,
-				     NETLINK_CB(skb).portid, extack);
-
+	}
 	neigh_release(neigh);
-
 out:
 	return err;
 }