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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@mediatek.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>, John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>,
	Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>,
	Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@mediatek.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	wsd_upstream@mediatek.com, chao.song@mediatek.com,
	kuohong.wang@mediatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: if_arp: add ARPHRD_PUREIP type
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:06:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YNSDQbp/h/aadpmV@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210624122435.11887-1-rocco.yue@mediatek.com>

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 08:24:35PM +0800, Rocco Yue wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-06-24 at 11:04 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:13:10PM +0800, Rocco Yue wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2021-06-24 at 07:29 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks for the explaination, why is this hardware somehow "special" in
> >>> this way that this has never been needed before?
> >>> 
> >>> thanks,
> >>> 
> >>> greg k-h
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Before kernel-4.18, RAWIP was the same as PUREIP, neither of them
> >> automatically generates an IPv6 link-local address, and the way to
> >> generate an IPv6 global address is the same.
> >> 
> >> After kernel-4.18 (include 4.18 version), the behavior of RAWIP had
> >> changed due to the following patch:
> >> @@  static int ipv6_generate_eui64(u8 *eui, struct net_device *dev)
> >> +	case ARPHRD_RAWIP:
> >> +		return addrconf_ifid_rawip(eui, dev);
> >>  	}
> >>  	return -1;
> >> }
> >> 
> >> the reason why the kernel doesn't need to generate the link-local
> >> address automatically is as follows:
> >> 
> >> In the 3GPP 29.061, here is some description as follows:
> >> "in order to avoid any conflict between the link-local address of
> >> MS and that of the GGSN, the Interface-Identifier used by the MS to
> >> build its link-local address shall be assigned by the GGSN. The GGSN
> >> ensures the uniqueness of this Interface-Identifier. Then MT shall
> >> then enforce the use of this Interface-Identifier by the TE"
> >> 
> >> In other words, in the cellular network, GGSN determines whether to
> >> reply to the Router Solicitation message of UE by identifying the
> >> low 64bits of UE interface's ipv6 link-local address.
> >> 
> >> When using a new kernel and RAWIP, kernel will generate an EUI64
> >> format ipv6 link-local address, and if the device uses this address
> >> to send RS, GGSN will not reply RA message.
> >> 
> >> Therefore, in that background, we came up with PUREIP to make kernel
> >> doesn't generate a ipv6 link-local address in any address generate
> >> mode.
> > 
> > Thanks for the better description.  That should go into the changelog
> > text somewhere so that others know what is going on here with this new
> > option.
> >
> 
> Does changelog mean adding these details to the commit message ?

Yes please.

> > And are these user-visable flags documented in a man page or something
> > else somewhere?  If not, how does userspace know about them?
> > 
> 
> There are mappings of these device types value in the libc:
> "/bionic/libc/kernel/uapi/linux/if_arp.h".
> userspace can get it from here.

Yes, they will show up in a libc definition, but where is it documented
in text form what the flag does?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-24 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-23 11:34 [PATCH 1/4] net: if_arp: add ARPHRD_PUREIP type Rocco Yue
2021-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] net: ipv6: don't generate link local address on PUREIP device Rocco Yue
2021-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] net: dev_is_mac_header_xmit() return false for ARPHRD_PUREIP Rocco Yue
2021-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] drivers: net: mediatek: initial implementation of ccmni Rocco Yue
2021-06-23 17:25   ` Greg KH
2021-06-23 17:31   ` Greg KH
2021-06-24 11:53     ` [PATCH 1/4] net: if_arp: add ARPHRD_PUREIP type Rocco Yue
2021-06-24 12:23       ` Greg KH
2021-06-24 15:55         ` [PATCH 4/4] drivers: net: mediatek: initial implementation of ccmni Rocco Yue
2021-06-24 16:51           ` Greg KH
2021-06-28  7:18             ` Rocco Yue
2021-06-28  9:30               ` Greg KH
2021-06-23 17:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: if_arp: add ARPHRD_PUREIP type Greg KH
2021-06-24  3:33   ` Rocco Yue
2021-06-24  5:15     ` David Ahern
2021-06-24  5:31       ` Rocco Yue
2021-06-24  5:29     ` Greg KH
2021-06-24  6:13       ` Rocco Yue
2021-06-24  9:04         ` Greg KH
2021-06-24 12:24           ` Rocco Yue
2021-06-24 13:06             ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-06-25  6:01               ` Rocco Yue
2021-06-24 16:14         ` Dan Williams
2021-06-25  6:04           ` Rocco Yue

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