Re: [PATCH RFC 3/3] RDMA/siw: Require non-zero 6-byte MACs for soft iWARP

[Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

> On May 5, 2023, at 4:03 PM, Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On May 5, 2023, at 3:58 PM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 11:43:11AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>> From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
>>> 
>>> In the past, LOOPBACK and NONE (tunnel) devices had all-zero MAC
>>> addresses. siw_device_create() would fall back to copying the
>>> device's name in those cases, because an all-zero MAC address breaks
>>> the RDMA core IP-to-device lookup mechanism.
>> 
>> Why not just make up a dummy address in SIW? It shouldn't need to leak
>> out of it.. It is just some artifact of how the iWarp stuff has been
>> designed
> 
> I've been trying that.
> 
> Even though the siw0 device is now registered with a non-zero GID, 
> cma_acquire_dev_by_src_ip() still comes up with a zero GID which
> matches no device. Address resolution then fails.
> 
> I'm still looking into why.

The tun0 device's flags are:

   UP|POINTOPOINT|NOARP|MULTICAST

That flag combination turns addr_resolve_neigh() into a no-op, so
that the returned GIDs and addresses are uninitialized.

Cc'ing Parav because he's the last person who did significant work
on this code path. I can hack this to make it work, but I have no
idea what the proper solution would be.


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Chuck Lever