Re: [PATCH v2] net: route: Fix vrf dst_entry ref count false increasing

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 5/4/19 8:11 PM, linmiaohe wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2019/5/4 22:59, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 5/4/19 7:13 AM, linmiaohe wrote:
>>> From: Suanming.Mou <mousuanming@huawei.com>
>>>
>>> When config ip in default vrf same as the ip in specified
>>> vrf, fib_lookup will return the route from table local
>>> even if the in device is an enslaved l3mdev. Then the
>>
>> you need to move the local rule with a preference of 0 after the l3mdev
>> rule.
>>
>>
> 
> Move the local rule after l3mdev rule can get rid of this problem. And
> even if this happend, we can delete the same ip address in default vrf
> to fix it.
> But I think maybe it's still a problem because other rule with default
> vrf out device holds the specified vrf device. It looks unreasonable.
> 
> Many Thanks.
> 

VRF is implemented using policy routing. If you do not move the local
rule below the l3mdev rule, you are doing a lookup in the local table
first, then vrf table, then main table. Doing the local table first can
result in false hits - like the case of duplicate IP addresses in
default VRF and a VRF. In short, it is just wrong.

Looking at the VRF documentation in the kernel tree I do see such a
comment is missing, but I do mention in all of the VRF tutorials such as
this one (see slide 79):

http://schd.ws/hosted_files/ossna2017/fe/vrf-tutorial-oss.pdf