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Commit f356c5ff authored by Lorenzo Colitti's avatar Lorenzo Colitti Committed by Google Cont Rebase
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ANDROID: net: ipv6: autoconf routes into per-device tables


Currently, IPv6 router discovery always puts routes into
RT6_TABLE_MAIN. This causes problems for connection managers
that want to support multiple simultaneous network connections
and want control over which one is used by default (e.g., wifi
and wired).

To work around this connection managers typically take the routes
they prefer and copy them to static routes with low metrics in
the main table. This puts the burden on the connection manager
to watch netlink to see if the routes have changed, delete the
routes when their lifetime expires, etc.

Instead, this patch adds a per-interface sysctl to have the
kernel put autoconf routes into different tables. This allows
each interface to have its own autoconf table, and choosing the
default interface (or using different interfaces at the same
time for different types of traffic) can be done using
appropriate ip rules.

The sysctl behaves as follows:

- = 0: default. Put routes into RT6_TABLE_MAIN as before.
- > 0: manual. Put routes into the specified table.
- < 0: automatic. Add the absolute value of the sysctl to the
       device's ifindex, and use that table.

The automatic mode is most useful in conjunction with
net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_rt_table. A connection manager
or distribution could set it to, say, -100 on boot, and
thereafter just use IP rules.

[CPNOTE: 20/07/21] Lee: Asked Lorenzo for status via the bug

Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
[AmitP: Refactored original changes to align with
        the changes introduced by upstream commits
        830218c1 ("net: ipv6: Fix processing of RAs in presence of VRF"),
        8d1c802b ("net/ipv6: Flip FIB entries to fib6_info").

        Also folded following android-4.9 commit changes into this patch
        be65fb01da4d ("ANDROID: net: ipv6: remove unused variable ifindex in")]
Bug: 120445791
Change-Id: I82d16e3737d9cdfa6489e649e247894d0d60cbb1
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
parent ee2c828f
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