On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 12:25 AM Numan Siddique <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 4:35 AM Ales Musil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 3:47 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> If a logical router with dynamic-routing enabled learns a route
> >> whose nexthop is an IPv6 address, then ovn-northd adds a logical
> >> flow in the lr_in_ip_routing stage, but it doesn't add the
> >> priority-200 logical flow in lr_in_arp_request to resolve the
> >> mac of the nexthop. The below prioroty-100 logical flow gets invoked
> >> instead.
> >>
> >> table=27(lr_in_arp_request  ), priority=100  ,
> >>   match=(eth.dst == 00:00:00:00:00:00 && reg9[9] == 0),
> >>   action=(nd_ns { nd.target = xxreg0; output; }; next;)
> >>
> >> And this doesn't set the correct Solicit IPv6 destination address.
> >>
> >> This patch fixes the issue in pinctrl handler function for nd_ns
> >> action by using the IPv6 destination address stored in xxreg0.
> >> This action assumes that xxreg0 is populated with the proper address.
> >>
> >> Other alternative fix is for ovn-northd to add a logical flow
> >> in lr_in_arp_request just like it adds for static routes.
> >>
> >> I think its better to fix it in pinctrl instead.
> >>
> >> Found this issue while testing dynamic routing feature.
> >>
> >> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Code
> >> Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >
> >
> > Hi Numan,
> >
> > thank you for the patch. The commit is missing Fixes: bcba1b74c82c 
> > ("pinctrl: Handle arp/nd for other address families.").
> >
> >>  controller/pinctrl.c | 26 +++++++++++------
> >>  tests/ovn.at         | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/controller/pinctrl.c b/controller/pinctrl.c
> >> index 1a5407183c..452470ff74 100644
> >> --- a/controller/pinctrl.c
> >> +++ b/controller/pinctrl.c
> >> @@ -6534,17 +6534,27 @@ pinctrl_handle_nd_ns(struct rconn *swconn, const 
> >> struct flow *ip_flow,
> >>
> >>      /* We might be here without actually currently handling an IPv6 
> >> packet.
> >>       * This can happen in the case where we route IPv4 packets over an 
> >> IPv6
> >> -     * link.
> >> -     * In these cases we have no destination IPv6 address from the packet 
> >> that
> >> -     * we can reuse. But we receive the actual destination IPv6 address 
> >> via
> >> -     * userdata anyway, so what we pass to compose_nd_ns is irrelevant.
> >> -     * This is just a hope since we do not parse the userdata. If we land 
> >> here
> >> -     * for whatever reason without being an IPv6 packet and without 
> >> userdata we
> >> -     * will send out a wrong packet.
> >> -     */
> >> +     * link (e.g. RFC 5549 / BGP unnumbered, where an IPv4 destination is
> >> +     * resolved via an IPv6 link-local nexthop).
> >> +     *
> >> +     * In that case we have no destination IPv6 address in the trigger 
> >> packet
> >> +     * to reuse. compose_nd_ns() needs a valid destination so it can 
> >> derive
> >> +     * the correct solicited-node multicast (ff02::1:ff{addr[13:16]}) for
> >> +     * eth.dst and ip6.dst -- userdata only sets nd.target on the new 
> >> packet
> >> +     * and does not rewrite ip6.dst, so a wrong ipv6_dst here egresses on 
> >> the
> >> +     * wire as-is.
> >> +     *
> >> +     * The fallback nd_ns logical flow in S_ROUTER_IN_ARP_REQUEST stores 
> >> the
> >> +     * actual IPv6 nexthop in xxreg0 (REG_NEXT_HOP_IPV6) before invoking 
> >> the
> >> +     * nd_ns action, so for the IPv4-over-IPv6 case read xxreg0 from the
> >> +     * trigger packet's flow metadata. */
> >>      struct in6_addr ipv6_dst = IN6ADDR_EXACT_INIT;
> >>      if (get_dl_type(ip_flow) == htons(ETH_TYPE_IPV6)) {
> >>          ipv6_dst = ip_flow->ipv6_dst;
> >> +    } else {
> >> +        ovs_be128 nexthop_be =
> >> +            hton128(flow_get_xxreg(&pin->flow_metadata.flow, 0));
> >> +         memcpy(&ipv6_dst, &nexthop_be, sizeof ipv6_dst);
> >
> >
> > nit: memcpy is misaligned with the ovs_be128 above.
> >
> >>
> >>      }
> >>      compose_nd_ns(&packet, ip_flow->dl_src, &ipv6_src,
> >>                    &ipv6_dst);
> >> diff --git a/tests/ovn.at b/tests/ovn.at
> >> index fbaa63d99c..37e01dc1a9 100644
> >> --- a/tests/ovn.at
> >> +++ b/tests/ovn.at
> >> @@ -46214,3 +46214,69 @@ AT_CHECK([grep -q "WARN.*dynamic-routing" 
> >> hv/ovn-controller.log], [1])
> >>  OVN_CLEANUP([hv])
> >>  AT_CLEANUP
> >>  ])
> >> +
> >> +OVN_FOR_EACH_NORTHD([
> >> +AT_SETUP([IPv4 over v6 Neigh solicitation test])
> >> +ovn_start
> >> +
> >> +net_add n1
> >> +sim_add hv
> >> +ovs-vsctl add-br br-phys
> >> +ovn_attach n1 br-phys 192.168.0.1
> >> +ovs-vsctl set open . external-ids:ovn-bridge-mappings=phys:br-phys
> >> +
> >> +check ovn-nbctl ls-add sw0
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lsp-add sw0 sw0-port1
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lsp-set-addresses sw0-port1 "50:54:00:00:00:01 10.0.0.3"
> >> +
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lr-add lr0
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lrp-add lr0 lr0-sw0 00:00:00:00:ff:01 10.0.0.1/24 
> >> 1000::1/64
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lsp-add-router-port sw0 sw0-lr0 lr0-sw0
> >> +
> >> +check ovn-nbctl ls-add public
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lrp-add lr0 lr0-public 00:00:20:20:12:13
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lsp-add-router-port public public-lr0 lr0-public
> >> +
> >> +# localnet port
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lsp-add-localnet-port public ln-public phys
> >> +
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lrp-set-gateway-chassis lr0-public hv 20
> >> +check ovn-nbctl lr-nat-add lr0 dnat_and_snat 172.168.0.110 10.0.0.3
> >> +
> >> +check ovs-vsctl add-port br-int lsp -- \
> >> +    set Interface lsp external_ids:iface-id=lsp
> >
> >
> > nit: This lsp port doesn't seem to be used.
> >
> >>
> >> +
> >> +ovs-vsctl -- add-port br-int vif1 -- \
> >> +    set interface vif1 external-ids:iface-id=sw0-port1 \
> >> +    options:tx_pcap=hv/vif1-tx.pcap \
> >> +    options:rxq_pcap=hv/vif1-rx.pcap \
> >> +    ofport-request=1
> >> +
> >> +wait_for_ports_up
> >> +
> >> +# Add a learnt route manually
> >> +dp_uuid=$(fetch_column datapath _uuid external_ids:name=lr0)
> >> +lrp_uuid=$(fetch_column port_binding _uuid logical_port=lr0-public)
> >> +
> >> +ovn-sbctl create learned_route datapath=$dp_uuid logical_port=$lrp_uuid \
> >
> >
> > nit: check_uuid.
> >
> >>
> >> +ip_prefix=0.0.0.0/0 nexthop='"fe80::42:ff:fe00:1ff"'
> >> +
> >> +check ovn-nbctl --wait=hv sync
> >> +
> >> +# Send an IPv4 packet from sw0-port1 destined to outside
> >> +packet=$(fmt_pkt "Ether(dst='00:00:00:00:ff:01', 
> >> src='50:54:00:00:00:01')/ \
> >> +                      IP(dst='8.8.8.8', src='10.0.0.3')/ICMP()")
> >> +check as hv ovs-appctl netdev-dummy/receive vif1 $packet
> >> +
> >> +nd_ns=$(fmt_pkt "Ether(dst='33:33:ff:00:01:ff', src='00:00:20:20:12:13')/ 
> >> \
> >> +                       IPv6(src='fe80::200:20ff:fe20:1213', \
> >> +                       
> >> dst='ff02::1:ff00:1ff')/ICMPv6ND_NS(tgt='fe80::42:ff:fe00:1ff')/\
> >> +                       ICMPv6NDOptSrcLLAddr(lladdr='00:00:20:20:12:13')")
> >> +
> >> +echo $nd_ns > expected_nd_ns
> >> +OVN_CHECK_PACKETS_CONTAIN([hv/br-phys_n1-tx.pcap], [expected_nd_ns])
> >> +
> >> +OVN_CLEANUP([hv])
> >> +AT_CLEANUP
> >> +])
> >> +
> >> --
> >> 2.53.0
> >>
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> >
> > With those addressed:
> > Acked-by: Ales Musil <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks Ales.  I addressed your comments and applied to main.
> I'll backport to the branches once I run the CI.  I'll update here once done.

I backported all the way until branch-25.03.

Numan

>
> Numan
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ales
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