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<title>linux.git/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c, branch v6.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>inetpeer: avoid false sharing in inet_peer_xrlim_allow()</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:04:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-19T15:03:30+00:00</published>
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Under DOS, inet_peer_xrlim_allow() might be called millions
of times per second from different cpus.

Make sure to write over peer-&gt;rate_tokens and peer-&gt;rate_last
only when really needed.

Note the inherent races of this function are still there,
we do not care of precise ICMP rate limiting.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241219150330.3159027-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Under DOS, inet_peer_xrlim_allow() might be called millions
of times per second from different cpus.

Make sure to write over peer-&gt;rate_tokens and peer-&gt;rate_last
only when really needed.

Note the inherent races of this function are still there,
we do not care of precise ICMP rate limiting.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241219150330.3159027-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer: do not get a refcount in inet_getpeer()</title>
<updated>2024-12-18T03:37:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-15T17:56:29+00:00</published>
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All inet_getpeer() callers except ip4_frag_init() don't need
to acquire a permanent refcount on the inetpeer.

They can switch to full RCU protection.

Move the refcount_inc_not_zero() into ip4_frag_init(),
so that all the other callers no longer have to
perform a pair of expensive atomic operations on
a possibly contended cache line.

inet_putpeer() no longer needs to be exported.

After this patch, my DUT can receive 8,400,000 UDP packets
per second targeting closed ports, using 50% less cpu cycles
than before.

Also change two calls to l3mdev_master_ifindex() by
l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu() (Ido ideas)

Fixes: 8c2bd38b95f7 ("icmp: change the order of rate limits")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241215175629.1248773-5-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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All inet_getpeer() callers except ip4_frag_init() don't need
to acquire a permanent refcount on the inetpeer.

They can switch to full RCU protection.

Move the refcount_inc_not_zero() into ip4_frag_init(),
so that all the other callers no longer have to
perform a pair of expensive atomic operations on
a possibly contended cache line.

inet_putpeer() no longer needs to be exported.

After this patch, my DUT can receive 8,400,000 UDP packets
per second targeting closed ports, using 50% less cpu cycles
than before.

Also change two calls to l3mdev_master_ifindex() by
l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu() (Ido ideas)

Fixes: 8c2bd38b95f7 ("icmp: change the order of rate limits")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241215175629.1248773-5-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer: update inetpeer timestamp in inet_getpeer()</title>
<updated>2024-12-18T03:37:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-15T17:56:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=50b362f21d6c10b0f7939c1482c6a1b43da82f1a'/>
<id>50b362f21d6c10b0f7939c1482c6a1b43da82f1a</id>
<content type='text'>
inet_putpeer() will be removed in the following patch,
because we will no longer use refcounts.

Update inetpeer timestamp (p-&gt;dtime) at lookup time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241215175629.1248773-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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inet_putpeer() will be removed in the following patch,
because we will no longer use refcounts.

Update inetpeer timestamp (p-&gt;dtime) at lookup time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241215175629.1248773-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer: remove create argument of inet_getpeer()</title>
<updated>2024-12-18T03:37:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-15T17:56:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7a596a50c4a4eab946aec149171c72321b4934aa'/>
<id>7a596a50c4a4eab946aec149171c72321b4934aa</id>
<content type='text'>
All callers of inet_getpeer() want to create an inetpeer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241215175629.1248773-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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All callers of inet_getpeer() want to create an inetpeer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241215175629.1248773-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T17:50:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Lawall</name>
<email>Julia.Lawall@inria.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-13T20:16:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bb5810d4236be8750505ffc9f74e2403e7e7d617'/>
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<content type='text'>
Since SLOB was removed and since
commit 6c6c47b063b5 ("mm, slab: call kvfree_rcu_barrier() from kmem_cache_destroy()"),
it is not necessary to use call_rcu when the callback only performs
kmem_cache_free. Use kfree_rcu() directly.

The changes were made using Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241013201704.49576-4-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Since SLOB was removed and since
commit 6c6c47b063b5 ("mm, slab: call kvfree_rcu_barrier() from kmem_cache_destroy()"),
it is not necessary to use call_rcu when the callback only performs
kmem_cache_free. Use kfree_rcu() directly.

The changes were made using Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241013201704.49576-4-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ipv4: Simplify the allocation of slab caches in inet_initpeers</title>
<updated>2024-02-01T00:39:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kunwu Chan</name>
<email>chentao@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-30T09:22:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=57f2c6350f2d8d835def0a613a3d37c28d146102'/>
<id>57f2c6350f2d8d835def0a613a3d37c28d146102</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 0a31bd5f2bbb ("KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creation")
introduces a new macro.
Use the new KMEM_CACHE() macro instead of direct kmem_cache_create
to simplify the creation of SLAB caches.

Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan &lt;chentao@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240130092255.73078-1-chentao@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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commit 0a31bd5f2bbb ("KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creation")
introduces a new macro.
Use the new KMEM_CACHE() macro instead of direct kmem_cache_create
to simplify the creation of SLAB caches.

Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan &lt;chentao@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240130092255.73078-1-chentao@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer: Fix data-races around sysctl.</title>
<updated>2022-07-08T11:10:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-06T23:39:59+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
While reading inetpeer sysctl variables, they can be changed
concurrently.  So, we need to add READ_ONCE() to avoid data-races.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reading inetpeer sysctl variables, they can be changed
concurrently.  So, we need to add READ_ONCE() to avoid data-races.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer: use div64_ul() and clamp_val() calculate inet_peer_threshold</title>
<updated>2021-03-01T21:32:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yejune Deng</name>
<email>yejune.deng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-01T06:05:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8bd2a05527349c8627d2b9795d3c7a6f76033676'/>
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<content type='text'>
In inet_initpeers(), struct inet_peer on IA32 uses 128 bytes in nowdays.
Get rid of the cascade and use div64_ul() and clamp_val() calculate that
will not need to be adjusted in the future as suggested by Eric Dumazet.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yejune Deng &lt;yejune.deng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In inet_initpeers(), struct inet_peer on IA32 uses 128 bytes in nowdays.
Get rid of the cascade and use div64_ul() and clamp_val() calculate that
will not need to be adjusted in the future as suggested by Eric Dumazet.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yejune Deng &lt;yejune.deng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer: fix data-race in inet_putpeer / inet_putpeer</title>
<updated>2019-11-08T00:15:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-07T18:30:42+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We need to explicitely forbid read/store tearing in inet_peer_gc()
and inet_putpeer().

The following syzbot report reminds us about inet_putpeer()
running without a lock held.

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in inet_putpeer / inet_putpeer

write to 0xffff888121fb2ed0 of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 inet_putpeer+0x37/0xa0 net/ipv4/inetpeer.c:240
 ip4_frag_free+0x3d/0x50 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:102
 inet_frag_destroy_rcu+0x58/0x80 net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:228
 __rcu_reclaim kernel/rcu/rcu.h:222 [inline]
 rcu_do_batch+0x256/0x5b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2157
 rcu_core+0x369/0x4d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2377
 rcu_core_si+0x12/0x20 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2386
 __do_softirq+0x115/0x33f kernel/softirq.c:292
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:373 [inline]
 irq_exit+0xbb/0xe0 kernel/softirq.c:413
 exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:536 [inline]
 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xe6/0x280 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1137
 apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:830
 native_safe_halt+0xe/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:71
 arch_cpu_idle+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:571
 default_idle_call+0x1e/0x40 kernel/sched/idle.c:94
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:154 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1af/0x280 kernel/sched/idle.c:263

write to 0xffff888121fb2ed0 of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
 inet_putpeer+0x37/0xa0 net/ipv4/inetpeer.c:240
 ip4_frag_free+0x3d/0x50 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:102
 inet_frag_destroy_rcu+0x58/0x80 net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:228
 __rcu_reclaim kernel/rcu/rcu.h:222 [inline]
 rcu_do_batch+0x256/0x5b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2157
 rcu_core+0x369/0x4d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2377
 rcu_core_si+0x12/0x20 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2386
 __do_softirq+0x115/0x33f kernel/softirq.c:292
 run_ksoftirqd+0x46/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:603
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x37d/0x4a0 kernel/smpboot.c:165
 kthread+0x1d4/0x200 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1253
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 16 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011

Fixes: 4b9d9be839fd ("inetpeer: remove unused list")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We need to explicitely forbid read/store tearing in inet_peer_gc()
and inet_putpeer().

The following syzbot report reminds us about inet_putpeer()
running without a lock held.

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in inet_putpeer / inet_putpeer

write to 0xffff888121fb2ed0 of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 inet_putpeer+0x37/0xa0 net/ipv4/inetpeer.c:240
 ip4_frag_free+0x3d/0x50 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:102
 inet_frag_destroy_rcu+0x58/0x80 net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:228
 __rcu_reclaim kernel/rcu/rcu.h:222 [inline]
 rcu_do_batch+0x256/0x5b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2157
 rcu_core+0x369/0x4d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2377
 rcu_core_si+0x12/0x20 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2386
 __do_softirq+0x115/0x33f kernel/softirq.c:292
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:373 [inline]
 irq_exit+0xbb/0xe0 kernel/softirq.c:413
 exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:536 [inline]
 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xe6/0x280 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1137
 apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:830
 native_safe_halt+0xe/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:71
 arch_cpu_idle+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:571
 default_idle_call+0x1e/0x40 kernel/sched/idle.c:94
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:154 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1af/0x280 kernel/sched/idle.c:263

write to 0xffff888121fb2ed0 of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
 inet_putpeer+0x37/0xa0 net/ipv4/inetpeer.c:240
 ip4_frag_free+0x3d/0x50 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:102
 inet_frag_destroy_rcu+0x58/0x80 net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:228
 __rcu_reclaim kernel/rcu/rcu.h:222 [inline]
 rcu_do_batch+0x256/0x5b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2157
 rcu_core+0x369/0x4d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2377
 rcu_core_si+0x12/0x20 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2386
 __do_softirq+0x115/0x33f kernel/softirq.c:292
 run_ksoftirqd+0x46/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:603
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x37d/0x4a0 kernel/smpboot.c:165
 kthread+0x1d4/0x200 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1253
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 16 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011

Fixes: 4b9d9be839fd ("inetpeer: remove unused list")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ipv4: use a dedicated counter for icmp_v4 redirect packets</title>
<updated>2019-02-09T05:50:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Bianconi</name>
<email>lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-06T18:18:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c09551c6ff7fe16a79a42133bcecba5fc2fc3291'/>
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<content type='text'>
According to the algorithm described in the comment block at the
beginning of ip_rt_send_redirect, the host should try to send
'ip_rt_redirect_number' ICMP redirect packets with an exponential
backoff and then stop sending them at all assuming that the destination
ignores redirects.
If the device has previously sent some ICMP error packets that are
rate-limited (e.g TTL expired) and continues to receive traffic,
the redirect packets will never be transmitted. This happens since
peer-&gt;rate_tokens will be typically greater than 'ip_rt_redirect_number'
and so it will never be reset even if the redirect silence timeout
(ip_rt_redirect_silence) has elapsed without receiving any packet
requiring redirects.

Fix it by using a dedicated counter for the number of ICMP redirect
packets that has been sent by the host

I have not been able to identify a given commit that introduced the
issue since ip_rt_send_redirect implements the same rate-limiting
algorithm from commit 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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According to the algorithm described in the comment block at the
beginning of ip_rt_send_redirect, the host should try to send
'ip_rt_redirect_number' ICMP redirect packets with an exponential
backoff and then stop sending them at all assuming that the destination
ignores redirects.
If the device has previously sent some ICMP error packets that are
rate-limited (e.g TTL expired) and continues to receive traffic,
the redirect packets will never be transmitted. This happens since
peer-&gt;rate_tokens will be typically greater than 'ip_rt_redirect_number'
and so it will never be reset even if the redirect silence timeout
(ip_rt_redirect_silence) has elapsed without receiving any packet
requiring redirects.

Fix it by using a dedicated counter for the number of ICMP redirect
packets that has been sent by the host

I have not been able to identify a given commit that introduced the
issue since ip_rt_send_redirect implements the same rate-limiting
algorithm from commit 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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