From: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
To: sbrivio@redhat.com, dgibson@redhat.com,
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, jmaloy@redhat.com,
passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: [PATCH v5 04/10] arp/ndp: respond with true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 22:11:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250906021154.2760611-5-jmaloy@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250906021154.2760611-1-jmaloy@redhat.com>
When we receive an ARP request or NDP neigbor solicitation over
the tap interface for a host on the local network segment attached
to the template interface, we respond with that host's real MAC
address.
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
---
v3: - Added helper function to find out if a remote ip address is subject
to NAT. This filters out local host addresses which should be
presented with the passt/pasta local MAC address 9a:55:9a:55:9a:55 even
though it is on the local segment.
- Adapted to the change in nl_mac_get() function, so that we now consider
only the template interface when checking the ARP/NDP table.
v4: - Moved NAT check into the function nat_outbound() to obtain more
precise criteria for when NAT is used. We may in theory
have NAT even if original and translated addresses are equal, and
we want to catch this case.
- I chose to keep the wrapper funtion inany_nat(), but moved it to
fwd.h/fwd.c and renamed it to fwd_inany_nat().
v5: - Simplified criteria for when we do ARP/NDP lookup. Now, we
just try with the potentially translated address after an
attempted NAT check.
- Using the new ARP/NDP cache table instead of using netlink
directly.
---
arp.c | 9 ++++++++-
fwd.c | 5 +++--
fwd.h | 2 ++
inany.c | 1 +
ndp.c | 8 ++++++++
5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arp.c b/arp.c
index 44677ad..8bff505 100644
--- a/arp.c
+++ b/arp.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ static bool ignore_arp(const struct ctx *c,
*/
int arp(const struct ctx *c, struct iov_tail *data)
{
+ union inany_addr tgt, tgt_nat;
struct {
struct ethhdr eh;
struct arphdr ah;
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ int arp(const struct ctx *c, struct iov_tail *data)
const struct ethhdr *eh;
const struct arphdr *ah;
const struct arpmsg *am;
+ uint8_t omac[ETH_ALEN];
eh = IOV_REMOVE_HEADER(data, eh_storage);
ah = IOV_REMOVE_HEADER(data, ah_storage);
@@ -102,8 +104,13 @@ int arp(const struct ctx *c, struct iov_tail *data)
resp.ah.ar_hln = ah->ar_hln;
resp.ah.ar_pln = ah->ar_pln;
+ /* MAC address to return */
+ inany_from_af(&tgt, AF_INET, am->tip);
+ nat_outbound(c, &tgt, &tgt_nat);
+ fwd_neigh_mac_get(c, &tgt_nat, omac);
+
/* ARP message */
- memcpy(resp.am.sha, c->our_tap_mac, sizeof(resp.am.sha));
+ memcpy(resp.am.sha, omac, sizeof(resp.am.sha));
memcpy(resp.am.sip, am->tip, sizeof(resp.am.sip));
memcpy(resp.am.tha, am->sha, sizeof(resp.am.tha));
memcpy(resp.am.tip, am->sip, sizeof(resp.am.tip));
diff --git a/fwd.c b/fwd.c
index ab49dba..664e167 100644
--- a/fwd.c
+++ b/fwd.c
@@ -630,8 +630,8 @@ static bool fwd_guest_accessible(const struct ctx *c,
* Only handles translations that depend *only* on the address. Anything
* related to specific ports or flows is handled elsewhere.
*/
-static void nat_outbound(const struct ctx *c, const union inany_addr *addr,
- union inany_addr *translated)
+void nat_outbound(const struct ctx *c, const union inany_addr *addr,
+ union inany_addr *translated)
{
if (inany_equals4(addr, &c->ip4.map_host_loopback))
*translated = inany_loopback4;
@@ -643,6 +643,7 @@ static void nat_outbound(const struct ctx *c, const union inany_addr *addr,
translated->a6 = c->ip6.addr;
else
*translated = *addr;
+
}
/**
diff --git a/fwd.h b/fwd.h
index 80da4b1..bf1705b 100644
--- a/fwd.h
+++ b/fwd.h
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ void fwd_scan_ports_init(struct ctx *c);
bool nat_inbound(const struct ctx *c, const union inany_addr *addr,
union inany_addr *translated);
+void nat_outbound(const struct ctx *c, const union inany_addr *addr,
+ union inany_addr *translated);
uint8_t fwd_nat_from_tap(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t proto,
const struct flowside *ini, struct flowside *tgt);
uint8_t fwd_nat_from_splice(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t proto,
diff --git a/inany.c b/inany.c
index 65a39f9..7680439 100644
--- a/inany.c
+++ b/inany.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include "ip.h"
#include "siphash.h"
#include "inany.h"
+#include "fwd.h"
const union inany_addr inany_loopback4 = INANY_INIT4(IN4ADDR_LOOPBACK_INIT);
const union inany_addr inany_any4 = INANY_INIT4(IN4ADDR_ANY_INIT);
diff --git a/ndp.c b/ndp.c
index eb090cd..820c556 100644
--- a/ndp.c
+++ b/ndp.c
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ static void ndp_send(const struct ctx *c, const struct in6_addr *dst,
static void ndp_na(const struct ctx *c, const struct in6_addr *dst,
const struct in6_addr *addr)
{
+ union inany_addr tgt, tgt_nat;
struct ndp_na na = {
.ih = {
.icmp6_type = NA,
@@ -215,6 +216,13 @@ static void ndp_na(const struct ctx *c, const struct in6_addr *dst,
memcpy(na.target_l2_addr.mac, c->our_tap_mac, ETH_ALEN);
+ /* Respond with true MAC address if remote host's address or
+ * NAT translated address can be found in NDP table.
+ */
+ inany_from_af(&tgt, AF_INET6, addr);
+ nat_outbound(c, &tgt, &tgt_nat);
+ fwd_neigh_mac_get(c, &tgt_nat, na.target_l2_addr.mac);
+
ndp_send(c, dst, &na, sizeof(na));
}
--
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ static void ndp_send(const struct ctx *c, const struct in6_addr *dst,
static void ndp_na(const struct ctx *c, const struct in6_addr *dst,
const struct in6_addr *addr)
{
+ union inany_addr tgt, tgt_nat;
struct ndp_na na = {
.ih = {
.icmp6_type = NA,
@@ -215,6 +216,13 @@ static void ndp_na(const struct ctx *c, const struct in6_addr *dst,
memcpy(na.target_l2_addr.mac, c->our_tap_mac, ETH_ALEN);
+ /* Respond with true MAC address if remote host's address or
+ * NAT translated address can be found in NDP table.
+ */
+ inany_from_af(&tgt, AF_INET6, addr);
+ nat_outbound(c, &tgt, &tgt_nat);
+ fwd_neigh_mac_get(c, &tgt_nat, na.target_l2_addr.mac);
+
ndp_send(c, dst, &na, sizeof(na));
}
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-06 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-06 2:11 [PATCH v5 00/10] Use true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts Jon Maloy
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] netlink: add function to extract MAC addresses from NDP/ARP table Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 2:12 ` David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] fwd: Added cache table for ARP/NDP contents Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 2:42 ` David Gibson
2025-09-09 15:02 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-10 1:49 ` David Gibson
2025-09-08 9:57 ` David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] fwd: Add entries of ARP/NDP cache table to a FIFO/LRU queue Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 2:51 ` David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` Jon Maloy [this message]
2025-09-08 3:04 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] arp/ndp: respond with true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] flow: add MAC address of LAN local remote hosts to flow Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 3:07 ` David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] udp: forward external source MAC address through tap interface Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 3:13 ` David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] tcp: " Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 3:18 ` David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] tap: change signature of function tap_push_l2h() Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 3:21 ` David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] tcp: make tcp_rst_no_conn() respond with correct MAC address Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 3:29 ` David Gibson
2025-09-06 2:11 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] icmp: let icmp use mac address from flowside structure Jon Maloy
2025-09-08 3:35 ` David Gibson
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