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RDMA/core: Resolve MAC of next-hop device without ARP support
authorParav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:11:01 +0000 (14:11 +0300)
committerLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:20:20 +0000 (05:20 -0400)
commit200651b9b8aadfbbec852f0e5d042d9abe75e2ab
treee32dcd5cdb1a956dd7b7ee32ad18d86da40e88be
parentfa29d1e8877bcfb9813efc7d0138e01ca07f1863
RDMA/core: Resolve MAC of next-hop device without ARP support

Currently, if the next-hop netdevice does not support ARP resolution,
the destination MAC address is silently set to zero without reporting
an error. This leads to incorrect behavior and may result in packet
transmission failures.

Fix this by deferring MAC resolution to the IP stack via neighbour
lookup, allowing proper resolution or error reporting as appropriate.

Fixes: 7025fcd36bd6 ("IB: address translation to map IP toIB addresses (GIDs)")
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlad Dumitrescu <vdumitrescu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Edward Srouji <edwards@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916111103.84069-3-edwards@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c