gre: Fix IPv6 link-local address generation.
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 commit e5dd7294 ("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 commit 9af28511 ("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 commit e5dd7294 ("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. Fixes: e5dd7294 ("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/559c32ce5c9976b269e6337ac9abb6a96abe5096.1741375285.git.gnault@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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