From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
nikita.leshchenko@oracle.com,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
alex.aring@gmail.com, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org,
NetFilter <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:43:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a3f59a9-0ba5-c83f-16a6-f9550a84f693@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpW4g2v6xk49Gz+WBasKaO9VUk3Q-umX7iBRK-mAhn21Fw@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/17/18 11:40 AM, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:11 AM <dsahern@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>>
>> Nikita Leshenko reported that neighbor entries in one namespace can
>> evict neighbor entries in another. The problem is that the neighbor
>> tables have entries across all namespaces without separate accounting
>> and with global limits on when to scan for entries to evict.
>
> It is nothing new, people including me already noticed this before.
>
>
>>
>> Resolve by making the neighbor tables for ipv4, ipv6 and decnet per
>> namespace and making the accounting and threshold limits per namespace.
>
>
> The last discussion about this a long time ago concluded that neigh
> table entries are controllable by remote, so after moving it to per netns,
> it would be easier to DOS the host.
>
There are still limits on the total number of entries and with
per-namespace limits an admin has better control.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-17 12:06 [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 01/17] net/ipv4: rename ipv4_neigh_lookup to ipv4_dst_neigh_lookup dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 02/17] net/neigh: export neigh_find_table dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 03/17] net/ipv4: wrappers for arp table references dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 04/17] net/ipv4: Remove open coded use of arp table dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 05/17] net/ipv6: wrappers for neighbor table references dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 06/17] net/ipv6: Remove open coded use of neighbor table dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 07/17] drivers/net: remove open coding of neighbor tables dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 08/17] net: Remove nd_tbl from ipv6 stub dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 09/17] net: Remove arp_tbl and nd_tbl from headers dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 10/17] net: Add key_len to neighbor constructor dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 11/17] net: Change neigh_table_init and neigh_table_clear signature dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 12/17] net/neigh: Change neigh_xmit to take an address family dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 13/17] net/neighbor: Convert internal functions away from neigh_tables dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 14/17] net/ipv4: Convert arp table to per namespace dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 15/17] net/ipv6: Convert neighbor table to per-namespace dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 16/17] net/decnet: Move " dsahern
2018-07-17 12:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 17/17] net/neighbor: Remove neigh_tables and NEIGH enum dsahern
2018-07-17 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace Cong Wang
2018-07-17 17:43 ` David Ahern [this message]
2018-07-17 17:53 ` Cong Wang
2018-07-17 19:02 ` David Ahern
2018-07-17 20:37 ` Cong Wang
2018-07-18 3:59 ` David Miller
2018-07-19 16:16 ` David Ahern
2018-07-19 17:12 ` Cong Wang
2018-07-24 15:14 ` David Ahern
2018-07-24 17:14 ` David Miller
2018-07-25 18:23 ` David Ahern
2018-07-24 22:09 ` Cong Wang
2018-07-25 12:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-07-25 14:06 ` David Ahern
2018-07-25 17:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-07-25 18:13 ` David Ahern
2018-07-25 19:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-08-13 21:48 ` David Ahern
2018-08-15 4:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-07-26 11:12 ` David Laight
2018-07-27 16:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-07-19 0:54 ` Michael Richardson
2018-07-19 15:49 ` David Ahern
2018-08-12 6:46 ` [RFC/RFT, net-next, " Vasily Averin
2018-08-12 17:37 ` David Ahern
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