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Commit 5027d54a authored by Patrick Rohr's avatar Patrick Rohr Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net: change accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to affect all RA lifetimes


accept_ra_min_rtr_lft only considered the lifetime of the default route
and discarded entire RAs accordingly.

This change renames accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to accept_ra_min_lft, and
applies the value to individual RA sections; in particular, router
lifetime, PIO preferred lifetime, and RIO lifetime. If any of those
lifetimes are lower than the configured value, the specific RA section
is ignored.

In order for the sysctl to be useful to Android, it should really apply
to all lifetimes in the RA, since that is what determines the minimum
frequency at which RAs must be processed by the kernel. Android uses
hardware offloads to drop RAs for a fraction of the minimum of all
lifetimes present in the RA (some networks have very frequent RAs (5s)
with high lifetimes (2h)). Despite this, we have encountered networks
that set the router lifetime to 30s which results in very frequent CPU
wakeups. Instead of disabling IPv6 (and dropping IPv6 ethertype in the
WiFi firmware) entirely on such networks, it seems better to ignore the
misconfigured routers while still processing RAs from other IPv6 routers
on the same network (i.e. to support IoT applications).

The previous implementation dropped the entire RA based on router
lifetime. This turned out to be hard to expand to the other lifetimes
present in the RA in a consistent manner; dropping the entire RA based
on RIO/PIO lifetimes would essentially require parsing the whole thing
twice.

Fixes: 1671bcfd ("net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft")
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick Rohr <prohr@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMaciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726230701.919212-1-prohr@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 5bdc312c
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