linux/net/ipv6
Praveen Chaudhary 6b2e04bc24 net: allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement
For IPv4, default route is learned via DHCPv4 and user is allowed to change
metric using config etc/network/interfaces. But for IPv6, default route can
be learned via RA, for which, currently a fixed metric value 1024 is used.

Ideally, user should be able to configure metric on default route for IPv6
similar to IPv4. This patch adds sysctl for the same.

Logs:

For IPv4:

Config in etc/network/interfaces:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
    metric 4261413864

IPv4 Kernel Route Table:
$ ip route list
default via 172.21.47.1 dev eth0 metric 4261413864

FRR Table, if a static route is configured:
[In real scenario, it is useful to prefer BGP learned default route over DHCPv4 default route.]
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP,
       O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, P - PIM, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP,
       T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
       > - selected route, * - FIB route

S>* 0.0.0.0/0 [20/0] is directly connected, eth0, 00:00:03
K   0.0.0.0/0 [254/1000] via 172.21.47.1, eth0, 6d08h51m

i.e. User can prefer Default Router learned via Routing Protocol in IPv4.
Similar behavior is not possible for IPv6, without this fix.

After fix [for IPv6]:
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric=1996489705

IP monitor: [When IPv6 RA is received]
default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705  pref high

Kernel IPv6 routing table
$ ip -6 route list
default via fe80::be16:65ff:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705 expires 21sec hoplimit 64 pref high

FRR Table, if a static route is configured:
[In real scenario, it is useful to prefer BGP learned default route over IPv6 RA default route.]
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIPng,
       O - OSPFv3, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, N - NHRP, T - Table,
       v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
       > - selected route, * - FIB route

S>* ::/0 [20/0] is directly connected, eth0, 00:00:06
K   ::/0 [119/1001] via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e, eth0, 6d07h43m

If the metric is changed later, the effect will be seen only when next IPv6
RA is received, because the default route must be fully controlled by RA msg.
Below metric is changed from 1996489705 to 1996489704.

$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric=1996489704
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric = 1996489704

IP monitor:
[On next IPv6 RA msg, Kernel deletes prev route and installs new route with updated metric]

Deleted default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705 expires 3sec hoplimit 64 pref high
default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489704 pref high

Signed-off-by: Praveen Chaudhary <pchaudhary@linkedin.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenggen Xu <zxu@linkedin.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210125214430.24079-1-pchaudhary@linkedin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2021-01-26 18:39:45 -08:00
..
ila net: Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to network modules 2020-06-20 21:33:57 -07:00
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf 2020-12-18 18:07:14 -08:00
addrconf_core.c ipv6: add ipv6_fragment hook in ipv6_stub 2020-08-31 12:26:39 -07:00
addrconf.c net: allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement 2021-01-26 18:39:45 -08:00
addrlabel.c ipv6: addrlabel: fix possible memory leak in ip6addrlbl_net_init 2020-11-25 11:20:16 -08:00
af_inet6.c selinux/stable-5.11 PR 20201214 2020-12-16 11:01:04 -08:00
ah6.c ah6: fix error return code in ah6_input() 2020-11-18 10:53:16 -08:00
anycast.c ipv6: fix memory leaks on IPV6_ADDRFORM path 2020-07-30 16:30:55 -07:00
calipso.c net: ipv6: calipso: Fix kerneldoc warnings 2020-10-30 12:14:23 -07:00
datagram.c lsm,selinux: pass flowi_common instead of flowi to the LSM hooks 2020-11-23 18:36:21 -05:00
esp6_offload.c net: Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to network modules 2020-06-20 21:33:57 -07:00
esp6.c esp: avoid unneeded kmap_atomic call 2021-01-11 18:20:09 -08:00
exthdrs_core.c ipv6: remove printk 2019-07-27 14:23:48 -07:00
exthdrs_offload.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
exthdrs.c ipv6: remove unused function ipv6_skb_idev() 2020-11-14 12:00:27 -08:00
fib6_notifier.c net: fib_notifier: propagate extack down to the notifier block callback 2019-10-04 11:10:56 -07:00
fib6_rules.c fib: use indirect call wrappers in the most common fib_rules_ops 2020-07-28 17:42:31 -07:00
fou6.c net: Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to network modules 2020-06-20 21:33:57 -07:00
icmp.c selinux/stable-5.11 PR 20201214 2020-12-16 11:01:04 -08:00
inet6_connection_sock.c lsm,selinux: pass flowi_common instead of flowi to the LSM hooks 2020-11-23 18:36:21 -05:00
inet6_hashtables.c net: ipv6: remove unused arg exact_dif in compute_score 2020-08-31 13:08:10 -07:00
ip6_checksum.c
ip6_fib.c net: ipv6: fib: flush exceptions when purging route 2021-01-07 12:03:16 -08:00
ip6_flowlabel.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-08-05 20:13:21 -07:00
ip6_gre.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
ip6_icmp.c ipv6: icmp6: avoid indirect call for icmpv6_send() 2020-06-19 13:41:59 -07:00
ip6_input.c bpf: Add socket assign support 2020-03-30 13:45:04 -07:00
ip6_offload.c udp: move gro declarations to net/udp.h 2020-06-23 20:10:15 -07:00
ip6_offload.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
ip6_output.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-01-14 18:34:50 -08:00
ip6_tunnel.c ip6_tunnel: use ip_tunnel_get_stats64 as ndo_get_stats64 callback 2020-11-09 17:50:28 -08:00
ip6_udp_tunnel.c net: Make locking in sock_bindtoindex optional 2020-06-01 14:57:14 -07:00
ip6_vti.c vti: switch to dev_get_tstats64 2020-11-09 17:50:28 -08:00
ip6mr.c net/ipv6: switch ip6_mroute_setsockopt to sockptr_t 2020-07-24 15:41:54 -07:00
ipcomp6.c ipcomp: assign if_id to child tunnel from parent tunnel 2020-07-09 12:55:37 +02:00
ipv6_sockglue.c net/ipv6: propagate user pointer annotation 2020-12-01 11:42:33 -08:00
Kconfig net: ipv6: fix kconfig dependency warning for IPV6_SEG6_HMAC 2020-09-18 17:45:04 -07:00
Makefile net: ipv6: add rpl sr tunnel 2020-03-29 22:30:57 -07:00
mcast_snoop.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 343 2019-06-05 17:37:07 +02:00
mcast.c ipv6: mcast: make annotations for ip6_mc_msfget() consistent 2020-10-30 13:58:45 -07:00
mip6.c xfrm: remove type and offload_type map from xfrm_state_afinfo 2019-06-06 08:34:50 +02:00
ndisc.c net: allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement 2021-01-26 18:39:45 -08:00
netfilter.c netfilter: use actual socket sk rather than skb sk when routing harder 2020-10-30 12:57:39 +01:00
output_core.c treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
ping.c lsm,selinux: pass flowi_common instead of flowi to the LSM hooks 2020-11-23 18:36:21 -05:00
proc.c net: udp: introduce UDP_MIB_MEMERRORS for udp_mem 2020-11-09 15:34:44 -08:00
protocol.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
raw.c lsm,selinux: pass flowi_common instead of flowi to the LSM hooks 2020-11-23 18:36:21 -05:00
reassembly.c ipv6: Remove dependency of ipv6_frag_thdr_truncated on ipv6 module 2020-11-19 10:49:50 -08:00
route.c net: allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement 2021-01-26 18:39:45 -08:00
rpl_iptunnel.c net: ipv6: rpl_iptunnel: simplify the return expression of rpl_do_srh() 2020-12-08 16:22:54 -08:00
rpl.c net: ipv6: rpl*: Fix strange kerneldoc warnings due to bad header 2020-10-30 12:12:52 -07:00
seg6_hmac.c crypto: sha - split sha.h into sha1.h and sha2.h 2020-11-20 14:45:33 +11:00
seg6_iptunnel.c seg6_iptunnel: Refactor seg6_lwt_headroom out of uapi header 2020-08-03 17:57:40 -07:00
seg6_local.c seg6: add VRF support for SRv6 End.DT6 behavior 2020-12-04 13:30:51 -08:00
seg6.c seg6: fix seg6_validate_srh() to avoid slab-out-of-bounds 2020-06-04 15:39:32 -07:00
sit.c net: sit: unregister_netdevice on newlink's error path 2021-01-14 10:26:46 -08:00
syncookies.c selinux/stable-5.11 PR 20201214 2020-12-16 11:01:04 -08:00
sysctl_net_ipv6.c ipv6: Fix sysctl max for fib_multipath_hash_policy 2020-09-02 15:44:53 -07:00
tcp_ipv6.c selinux/stable-5.11 PR 20201214 2020-12-16 11:01:04 -08:00
tcpv6_offload.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
tunnel6.c tunnel6: add tunnel6_input_afinfo for ipip and ipv6 tunnels 2020-07-09 12:52:37 +02:00
udp_impl.h net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt 2020-07-24 15:41:54 -07:00
udp_offload.c Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-12 16:54:48 -08:00
udp.c selinux/stable-5.11 PR 20201214 2020-12-16 11:01:04 -08:00
udplite.c net/ipv6: remove compat_ipv6_{get,set}sockopt 2020-07-19 18:16:41 -07:00
xfrm6_input.c xfrm: state: remove extract_input indirection from xfrm_state_afinfo 2020-05-06 09:40:08 +02:00
xfrm6_output.c xfrm: remove output_finish indirection from xfrm_state_afinfo 2020-05-06 09:40:08 +02:00
xfrm6_policy.c net: add bool confirm_neigh parameter for dst_ops.update_pmtu 2019-12-24 22:28:54 -08:00
xfrm6_protocol.c xfrm: add support for UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP 2020-04-28 11:28:36 +02:00
xfrm6_state.c xfrm: remove output_finish indirection from xfrm_state_afinfo 2020-05-06 09:40:08 +02:00
xfrm6_tunnel.c xfrm: interface: fix the priorities for ipip and ipv6 tunnels 2020-10-09 12:29:48 +02:00