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+From 0fd6123746c3881f1ccf0c3449f77ea458673b13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:12:36 +0200
+Subject: net, neigh: Enable state migration between NUD_PERMANENT and NTF_USE
+
+From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
+
+[ Upstream commit 3dc20f4762c62d3b3f0940644881ed818aa7b2f5 ]
+
+Currently, it is not possible to migrate a neighbor entry between NUD_PERMANENT
+state and NTF_USE flag with a dynamic NUD state from a user space control plane.
+Similarly, it is not possible to add/remove NTF_EXT_LEARNED flag from an existing
+neighbor entry in combination with NTF_USE flag.
+
+This is due to the latter directly calling into neigh_event_send() without any
+meta data updates as happening in __neigh_update(). Thus, to enable this use
+case, extend the latter with a NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE flag where we break the
+NUD_PERMANENT state in particular so that a latter neigh_event_send() is able
+to re-resolve a neighbor entry.
+
+Before fix, NUD_PERMANENT -> NUD_* & NTF_USE:
+
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a PERMANENT
+ [...]
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use extern_learn
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a PERMANENT
+ [...]
+
+As can be seen, despite the admin-triggered replace, the entry remains in the
+NUD_PERMANENT state.
+
+After fix, NUD_PERMANENT -> NUD_* & NTF_USE:
+
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a PERMANENT
+ [...]
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use extern_learn
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a extern_learn REACHABLE
+ [...]
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a extern_learn STALE
+ [...]
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a PERMANENT
+ [...]
+
+After the fix, the admin-triggered replace switches to a dynamic state from
+the NTF_USE flag which triggered a new neighbor resolution. Likewise, we can
+transition back from there, if needed, into NUD_PERMANENT.
+
+Similar before/after behavior can be observed for below transitions:
+
+Before fix, NTF_USE -> NTF_USE | NTF_EXT_LEARNED -> NTF_USE:
+
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a REACHABLE
+ [...]
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use extern_learn
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a REACHABLE
+ [...]
+
+After fix, NTF_USE -> NTF_USE | NTF_EXT_LEARNED -> NTF_USE:
+
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a REACHABLE
+ [...]
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use extern_learn
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a extern_learn REACHABLE
+ [...]
+ # ./ip/ip n replace 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 use
+ # ./ip/ip n
+ 192.168.178.30 dev enp5s0 lladdr f4:8c:50:5e:71:9a REACHABLE
+ [..]
+
+Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
+Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
+Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+---
+ include/net/neighbour.h | 1 +
+ net/core/neighbour.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
+ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/include/net/neighbour.h b/include/net/neighbour.h
+index 990f9b1d17092..d5767e25509cc 100644
+--- a/include/net/neighbour.h
++++ b/include/net/neighbour.h
+@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ static inline void *neighbour_priv(const struct neighbour *n)
+ #define NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE 0x00000001
+ #define NEIGH_UPDATE_F_WEAK_OVERRIDE 0x00000002
+ #define NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE_ISROUTER 0x00000004
++#define NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE 0x10000000
+ #define NEIGH_UPDATE_F_EXT_LEARNED 0x20000000
+ #define NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ISROUTER 0x40000000
+ #define NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ADMIN 0x80000000
+diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
+index 01e243a578e9c..8eec7667aa761 100644
+--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
++++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
+@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ static void neigh_update_hhs(struct neighbour *neigh)
+ lladdr instead of overriding it
+ if it is different.
+ NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ADMIN means that the change is administrative.
+-
++ NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE means that the entry is user triggered.
+ NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE_ISROUTER allows to override existing
+ NTF_ROUTER flag.
+ NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ISROUTER indicates if the neighbour is known as
+@@ -1260,6 +1260,12 @@ static int __neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr,
+ goto out;
+
+ ext_learn_change = neigh_update_ext_learned(neigh, flags, ¬ify);
++ if (flags & NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE) {
++ new = old & ~NUD_PERMANENT;
++ neigh->nud_state = new;
++ err = 0;
++ goto out;
++ }
+
+ if (!(new & NUD_VALID)) {
+ neigh_del_timer(neigh);
+@@ -1971,22 +1977,20 @@ static int neigh_add(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
+
+ if (protocol)
+ neigh->protocol = protocol;
+-
+ if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_EXT_LEARNED)
+ flags |= NEIGH_UPDATE_F_EXT_LEARNED;
+-
+ if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_ROUTER)
+ flags |= NEIGH_UPDATE_F_ISROUTER;
++ if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE)
++ flags |= NEIGH_UPDATE_F_USE;
+
+- if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE) {
++ err = __neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags,
++ NETLINK_CB(skb).portid, extack);
++ if (!err && ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE) {
+ neigh_event_send(neigh, NULL);
+ err = 0;
+- } else
+- err = __neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags,
+- NETLINK_CB(skb).portid, extack);
+-
++ }
+ neigh_release(neigh);
+-
+ out:
+ return err;
+ }
+--
+2.33.0
+