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 v4 00/12] Introduce multiple addresses
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:18:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260217221814.4053583-1-jmaloy@redhat.com> (raw)
This version contains what I perceive as the least controversial
parts of my previous RFC series. It basically makes address
handling behave like before, but now allowing multiple addresses
both at the host side and the guest side.
v2:
- Added the earlier standalone CIDR commit to the head of the series.
- Replaced the guest namespace interface subscriptions with just
an address observation feature, so that it works with both PASTA
and PASST.
- Unified 'no_copy_addrs' and 'copy_addrs' code paths, as suggested
by David G.
- Multiple other changes, also based on feedback from David.
- Removed the host interface subscription patches, -for now.
I intend to re-add them once this series is applied.
- Outstanding question: When do we add an IPv4 link local address
to the guest? Only in local/opaque mode? Only when
explicitly requested? Always?
v3:
- Unified the IPv4 and IPv6 arrays into one array
- Changed prefix_len to always be in IPv6/IpV4 mapped format
- Updated migration protocol to v3, handling multiple addresses
- Many other smaller changes, based on feedback from the PASST team
v4:
- Numerous changes based on feedback
- Added several new commits, mostly broken
out of the pre-existing ones.
Jon Maloy (12):
ip: Introduce unified multi-address data structures
ip: Introduce for_each_addr() macro for address iteration
fwd: Unify guest accessibility checks with unified address array
arp: Check all configured addresses in ARP filtering
pasta: Extract pasta_ns_conf_ip4/6() to reduce nesting
netlink: Return prefix length for IPv6 addresses in nl_addr_get()
conf: Allow multiple -a/--address options per address family
ip: Track observed guest IPv4 addresses in unified address array
ip: Track observed guest IPv6 addresses in unified address array
fwd: Unify fwd_set_observed_ip4() and fwd_set_observed_ip6()
migrate: Rename v1 address functions to v2 for clarity
migrate: Update protocol to v3 for multi-address support
arp.c | 15 +++-
conf.c | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------
conf.h | 8 ++
dhcp.c | 13 +++-
dhcpv6.c | 11 ++-
dhcpv6.h | 2 +-
fwd.c | 221 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
fwd.h | 3 +
inany.h | 3 +
ip.h | 5 ++
migrate.c | 185 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
ndp.c | 17 ++++-
netlink.c | 4 +-
passt.h | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++----
pasta.c | 200 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
tap.c | 72 +++++++++++++-----
16 files changed, 736 insertions(+), 274 deletions(-)
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2.52.0
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2026-02-17 22:18 Jon Maloy [this message]
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 01/12] ip: Introduce unified multi-address data structures Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 02/12] ip: Introduce for_each_addr() macro for address iteration Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 03/12] fwd: Unify guest accessibility checks with unified address array Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 04/12] arp: Check all configured addresses in ARP filtering Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 05/12] pasta: Extract pasta_ns_conf_ip4/6() to reduce nesting Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 06/12] netlink: Return prefix length for IPv6 addresses in nl_addr_get() Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 07/12] conf: Allow multiple -a/--address options per address family Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 08/12] ip: Track observed guest IPv4 addresses in unified address array Jon Maloy
2026-02-18 14:14 ` Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 09/12] ip: Track observed guest IPv6 " Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 10/12] fwd: Unify fwd_set_observed_ip4() and fwd_set_observed_ip6() Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 11/12] migrate: Rename v1 address functions to v2 for clarity Jon Maloy
2026-02-17 22:18 ` [PATCH v4 12/12] migrate: Update protocol to v3 for multi-address support Jon Maloy
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