Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Issues during assigning addresses on point to point interfaces | From | Nicolas Dichtel <> | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:06:21 +0200 |
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Le 25/06/2021 à 10:40, Pali Rohár a écrit : > On Thursday 24 June 2021 14:57:41 Nicolas Dichtel wrote: >> Le 24/06/2021 à 12:45, Marek Behún a écrit : >>> On Sun, 6 Jun 2021 17:10:08 +0200 >>> Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> Seems that there is a bug during assigning IP addresses on point to >>>> point interfaces. >>>> >>>> Assigning just one local address works fine: >>>> >>>> ip address add fe80::6 dev ppp1 --> inet6 fe80::6/128 scope link >>>> >>>> Assigning both local and remote peer address also works fine: >>>> >>>> ip address add fe80::7 peer fe80::8 dev ppp1 ---> inet6 fe80::7 >>>> peer fe80::8/128 scope link >>>> >>>> But trying to assign just remote peer address does not work. Moreover >>>> "ip address" call does not fail, it returns zero but instead of >>>> setting remote peer address, it sets local address: >>>> >>>> ip address add peer fe80::5 dev ppp1 --> inet6 fe80::5/128 scope >>>> link >>>> >>> >>> Adding some other people to Cc in order to get their opinions. >>> >>> It seems this bug is there from the beginning, from commit >>> caeaba79009c2 ("ipv6: add support of peer address") >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=caeaba79009c2 >>> >>> Maybe some older user-space utilities use IFA_ADDRESS instead of >>> IFA_LOCAL, and this was done in order to be compatible with them? >> If I remember well, there was an issue in the uAPI. >> IFA_LOCAL is supposed to be the address of the interface and IFA_ADDRESS is >> supposed to be the endpoint of a point-to-point interface. >> However, in case of IPv6, it was not the case. In netlink messages generated by >> the kernel, IFA_ADDRESS was used instead of IFA_LOCAL. >> The patch tried to keep the backward compatibility and the symmetry between msg >> from userland and notification from the kernel. > > Hello Nicolas! > > See my original email where I put also rtnetlink packets (how strace see > them). Seems that there is a bug in handling them (or bug in iproute2) > as setting just peer (remote) IPv6 address is ignored: > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210606151008.7dwx5ukrlvxt4t3k@pali/ > > Do you have any idea if this is affected by that "issue in the uAPI"? > And what is the way how to fix it? What about forcing IFA_LOCAL address to :: in your case?
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