ipv4: be more aggressive when probing alternative gateways
Currently, we do not notice if new alternative gateways
are added. We can do it by checking for present neigh
entry. Also, gateways that are currently probed (NUD_INCOMPLETE)
can be skipped from round-robin probing.
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
index 6754c64..d4c6732 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
@@ -438,13 +438,15 @@
if (n) {
state = n->nud_state;
neigh_release(n);
+ } else {
+ return 0;
}
if (state == NUD_REACHABLE)
return 0;
if ((state & NUD_VALID) && order != dflt)
return 0;
if ((state & NUD_VALID) ||
- (*last_idx < 0 && order > dflt)) {
+ (*last_idx < 0 && order > dflt && state != NUD_INCOMPLETE)) {
*last_resort = fi;
*last_idx = order;
}