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 v14 04/10] arp/ndp: respond with true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:55:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251015025521.1449156-5-jmaloy@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251015025521.1449156-1-jmaloy@redhat.com>
When we receive an ARP request or NDP neigbour 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, if available.
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.
v6: - Fixes after feedback from David:
- Renamed nat_outbound() to fwd_nat_outbound()
- Eliminated unnecessary temporary variable in arp.c::arp()
v12: - Some minor changes after feedback from Stefano
v13: - Removed call to nat_outbound() before MAC resolution, as
we are now handling guest-side visible addresses only.
v14: - Removed obsolete memcpy() in ndp.c::ndp_na()
---
arp.c | 8 ++++++--
inany.c | 1 +
ndp.c | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arp.c b/arp.c
index ad088b1..b4a686f 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;
struct {
struct ethhdr eh;
struct arphdr ah;
@@ -102,8 +103,11 @@ int arp(const struct ctx *c, struct iov_tail *data)
resp.ah.ar_hln = ah->ar_hln;
resp.ah.ar_pln = ah->ar_pln;
- /* ARP message */
- memcpy(resp.am.sha, c->our_tap_mac, sizeof(resp.am.sha));
+ /* MAC address to return in ARP message */
+ inany_from_af(&tgt, AF_INET, am->tip);
+ fwd_neigh_mac_get(c, &tgt, resp.am.sha);
+
+ /* Rest of ARP message */
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/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 588b48f..7e2ae2a 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;
struct ndp_na na = {
.ih = {
.icmp6_type = NA,
@@ -213,7 +214,8 @@ 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);
+ inany_from_af(&tgt, AF_INET6, addr);
+ fwd_neigh_mac_get(c, &tgt, na.target_l2_addr.mac);
ndp_send(c, dst, &na, sizeof(na));
}
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-15 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-15 2:55 [PATCH v14 00/10] Use " Jon Maloy
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 01/10] netlink: add subscription on changes in NDP/ARP table Jon Maloy
2025-10-17 2:36 ` David Gibson
2025-10-19 10:07 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-20 0:17 ` David Gibson
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 02/10] passt: add no_map_gw flag to struct ctx Jon Maloy
2025-10-19 10:07 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 03/10] fwd: Add cache table for ARP/NDP contents Jon Maloy
2025-10-17 3:05 ` David Gibson
2025-10-17 18:49 ` Jon Maloy
2025-10-20 0:06 ` David Gibson
2025-10-20 10:00 ` Jon Maloy
2025-10-22 1:20 ` David Gibson
2025-10-19 10:07 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-15 2:55 ` Jon Maloy [this message]
2025-10-17 3:06 ` [PATCH v14 04/10] arp/ndp: respond with true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts David Gibson
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 05/10] arp/ndp: send ARP announcement / unsolicited NA when neigbour entry added Jon Maloy
2025-10-17 3:08 ` David Gibson
2025-10-19 10:08 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 06/10] flow: add MAC address of LAN local remote hosts to flow Jon Maloy
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 07/10] udp: forward external source MAC address through tap interface Jon Maloy
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 08/10] tcp: " Jon Maloy
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 09/10] tap: change signature of function tap_push_l2h() Jon Maloy
2025-10-15 2:55 ` [PATCH v14 10/10] icmp: let icmp use mac address from flowside structure Jon Maloy
2025-10-19 10:08 ` Stefano Brivio
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