From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Cc: sbrivio@redhat.com, dgibson@redhat.com, passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [RFC 01/12] ip: Introduce multi-address data structures for IPv4 and IPv6
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:46:54 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aT_ZDnRnd4SaX3s-@zatzit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251215015441.887736-2-jmaloy@redhat.com>
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 08:54:30PM -0500, Jon Maloy wrote:
> As preparation for supporting multiple addresses per interface, we
> replace the single addr/prefix_len fields with arrays.
>
> - We add an ip4_addr_entry and an ip6_addr_entry struct containing
> address and prefix length.
>
> - We set the array sizes to IP4_MAX_ADDRS=8 and IP6_MAX_ADDRS=16,
> respectively.
>
> The only functional change is that the IPv6 prefix length now is
> properly stored instead of being hardcoded to 64 even when set
> via the -a option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
> ---
> arp.c | 4 +--
> conf.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> dhcp.c | 8 ++---
> dhcpv6.c | 6 ++--
> fwd.c | 12 +++----
> ip.h | 26 +++++++++++++++
> ndp.c | 6 ++--
> passt.h | 16 ++++++----
> pasta.c | 12 ++++---
> tap.c | 4 +--
> util.h | 1 +
> 11 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arp.c b/arp.c
> index bb042e9..7eaf517 100644
> --- a/arp.c
> +++ b/arp.c
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static bool ignore_arp(const struct ctx *c,
> return true;
>
> /* Don't resolve the guest's assigned address, either. */
> - if (!memcmp(am->tip, &c->ip4.addr, sizeof(am->tip)))
> + if (!memcmp(am->tip, &c->ip4.addrs[0].addr, sizeof(am->tip)))
> return true;
Sorry, missed this on my first pass. This needs to skip *all* of the
guest addresses, not just the first one. Otherwise passt will respond
to arps for the guest's other addresses with its own MAC which will
break everything.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-15 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-15 1:54 [RFC 00/12] Support for multiple address and late binding Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 01/12] ip: Introduce multi-address data structures for IPv4 and IPv6 Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 9:40 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 22:05 ` Jon Maloy
2025-12-16 1:58 ` Jon Maloy
2025-12-16 3:14 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 9:46 ` David Gibson [this message]
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 02/12] ip: Add ip4_default_prefix_len() helper function for class-based prefix Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 9:41 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 03/12] conf: Allow multiple -a/--address options per address family Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 9:53 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 04/12] conf: Apply -n/--netmask to most recently added address Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 9:54 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 22:43 ` Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 05/12] fwd: Check all configured addresses in guest accessibility functions Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 10:06 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 06/12] arp: Check all configured addresses in ARP filtering Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 10:07 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 07/12] netlink: Subscribe to link/address changes in namespace Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 10:32 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 23:25 ` Jon Maloy
2025-12-16 3:21 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 08/12] netlink: Subscribe to route " Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 10:38 ` David Gibson
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 09/12] netlink: Add host-side monitoring for late template interface binding Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 10/12] netlink: Add host-side route monitoring and propagation Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 11/12] netlink: Prevent host route events from overwriting guest-configured gateway Jon Maloy
2025-12-15 1:54 ` [RFC 12/12] netlink: Rename tap interface when late binding discovers template name Jon Maloy
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