Merge branch 'replace-dst_confirm'

Julian Anastasov says:

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net: dst_confirm replacement

	This patchset addresses the problem of neighbour
confirmation where received replies from one nexthop
can cause confirmation of different nexthop when using
the same dst. Thanks to YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
for tracking the dst->pending_confirm problem.

	Sockets can obtain cached output route. Such
routes can be to known nexthop (rt_gateway=IP) or to be
used simultaneously for different nexthop IPs by different
subnet prefixes (nh->nh_scope = RT_SCOPE_HOST, rt_gateway=0).

	At first look, there are more problems:

- dst_confirm() sets flag on dst and not on dst->path,
as result, indication is lost when XFRM is used

- DNAT can change the nexthop, so the really used nexthop is
not confirmed

	So, the following solution is to avoid using
dst->pending_confirm.

	The current dst_confirm() usage is as follows:

Protocols confirming dst on received packets:
- TCP (1 dst per socket)
- SCTP (1 dst per transport)
- CXGB*

Protocols supporting sendmsg with MSG_CONFIRM [ | MSG_PROBE ] to
confirm neighbour:
- UDP IPv4/IPv6
- ICMPv4 PING
- RAW IPv4/IPv6
- L2TP/IPv6

MSG_CONFIRM for other purposes (fix not needed):
- CAN

Sending without locking the socket:
- UDP (when no cork)
- RAW (when hdrincl=1)

Redirects from old to new GW:
- rt6_do_redirect

	The patchset includes the following changes:

1. sock: add sk_dst_pending_confirm flag

- used only by TCP with patch 4 to remember the received
indication in sk->sk_dst_pending_confirm

2. net: add dst_pending_confirm flag to skbuff

- skb->dst_pending_confirm will be used by all protocols
in following patches, via skb_{set,get}_dst_pending_confirm

3. sctp: add dst_pending_confirm flag

- SCTP uses per-transport dsts and can not use
sk->sk_dst_pending_confirm like TCP

4. tcp: replace dst_confirm with sk_dst_confirm

5. net: add confirm_neigh method to dst_ops

- IPv4 and IPv6 provision for slow neigh lookups for MSG_PROBE users.
I decided to use neigh lookup only for this case because on
MSG_PROBE the skb may pass MTU checks but it does not reach
the neigh confirmation code. This patch will be used from patch 6.

- xfrm_confirm_neigh: we use the last tunnel address, if present.
When there are only transports, the original dest address is used.

6. net: use dst_confirm_neigh for UDP, RAW, ICMP, L2TP

- dst_confirm conversion for UDP, RAW, ICMP and L2TP/IPv6

- these protocols use MSG_CONFIRM propagated by ip*_append_data
to skb->dst_pending_confirm. sk->sk_dst_pending_confirm is not
used because some sending paths do not lock the socket. For
MSG_PROBE we use the slow lookup (dst_confirm_neigh).

- there are also 2 cases that need the slow lookup:
__ip6_rt_update_pmtu and rt6_do_redirect. I hope
&ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr is the correct nexthop address to use here.

7. net: pending_confirm is not used anymore

- I failed to understand the CXGB* code, I see dst_confirm()
calls but I'm not sure dst_neigh_output() was called. For now
I just removed the dst->pending_confirm flag and left all
dst_confirm() calls there. Any better idea?

- Now may be old function neigh_output() should be restored
instead of dst_neigh_output?
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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