From: Parav Pandit Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:11:01 +0000 (+0300) Subject: RDMA/core: Resolve MAC of next-hop device without ARP support X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~102^2~15 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=200651b9b8aadfbbec852f0e5d042d9abe75e2ab;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git 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 Reviewed-by: Vlad Dumitrescu Signed-off-by: Edward Srouji Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916111103.84069-3-edwards@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky --- diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c index 594e7ee335f7..ca86c482662f 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c @@ -454,14 +454,10 @@ static int addr_resolve_neigh(const struct dst_entry *dst, { int ret = 0; - if (ndev_flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) { + if (ndev_flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) memcpy(addr->dst_dev_addr, addr->src_dev_addr, MAX_ADDR_LEN); - } else { - if (!(ndev_flags & IFF_NOARP)) { - /* If the device doesn't do ARP internally */ - ret = fetch_ha(dst, addr, dst_in, seq); - } - } + else + ret = fetch_ha(dst, addr, dst_in, seq); return ret; }