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Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace

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On 7/28/16 10:20 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 21:18:16 -0700
>
>> After moving my HiKey tree to pre-v4.8-rc, I noticed when using
>> Android that I was getting routing errors after toggling networking on
>> and off (or entering suspend). Wifi associated, but I got some
>> rounting errors in the logcat the connection manager wouldn't detect a
>> valid network.
>>
>> Not being able to figure out exactly what was going wrong from the
>> userspace side, I bisected (manually rebasing a 70 patch stack each
>> step :P) it down and it seems that the commit: 153380ec4b9b
>> ("fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to fib_nl_newrule") is causing
>> the problem.
>>
>> Reverting that patch seems to make things work again.
>>
>> I'm no networking guru, but I'm happy to help debug this further if
>> folks can walk me through it a bit.
>
> It simply sounds like Android's userspace is specifying NLM_F_EXCL when
> it shouldn't be during FIB rule netlink operations.
>

I take Android userspace inserts the same rule multiple times? (ip rule ls)

If so and multiple components expect to manage their own 'copy' of the 
rule they will need to remove the NLM_F_EXCL flag.

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[Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to fib_nl_newrule  breaks Android userspace John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-07-29 06:20 +0200
  Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-07-29 06:30 +0200
    Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-07-29 16:20 +0200
      Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-07-29 19:00 +0200
        Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-07-29 21:20 +0200
        Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> - 2016-08-01 03:50 +0200
          Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-08-02 18:40 +0200
            Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-08-02 19:10 +0200
              Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-08-02 20:20 +0200
                Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-08-02 20:30 +0200
                Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-08-02 20:40 +0200
                Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> - 2016-08-03 03:00 +0200
                Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-08-03 03:20 +0200
              Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-08-02 21:00 +0200
            Re: [Regression?] fib_rules: Added NLM_F_EXCL support to  fib_nl_newrule breaks Android userspace John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-08-02 19:10 +0200

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