[PATCH net-next 1/3] net: nexthop: add NHA_FDB_PORT for fdb nexthops
From: Jack Ma <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-12 19:16:36
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Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
Commit 1274e1cc4226 ("vxlan: ecmp support for mac fdb entries") lets a
single inner MAC be reached through a group of remote VTEPs, with the
kernel flow-hashing across the group members. Each member carries its
own remote IP, but the UDP destination port is always taken from the
VXLAN device (vxlan->cfg.dst_port) and cannot be set per member.
Some deployments pack several receivers behind one underlay IP and tell
them apart by UDP port, so they need a per-nexthop destination port to
spread flows across (IP, port) tuples rather than IP alone.
Add a netlink attribute NHA_FDB_PORT (__be16, mirroring NDA_PORT) that
carries an optional UDP destination port on an fdb nexthop. It is only
accepted together with NHA_FDB and NHA_GATEWAY; it is stored in struct
nh_info and echoed back on dump. This patch is control-plane plumbing
only; the VXLAN datapath is wired up in a follow-up patch, so behaviour
is unchanged for now.
Signed-off-by: Jack Ma <redacted>
---
include/net/nexthop.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h | 3 +++
net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/nexthop.h b/include/net/nexthop.h
index 572e69cda..9c8227996 100644
--- a/include/net/nexthop.h
+++ b/include/net/nexthop.h@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct nh_config { u8 nh_protocol; u8 nh_blackhole; u8 nh_fdb; + __be16 nh_fdb_port; u32 nh_flags; int nh_ifindex;
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ struct nh_info { u8 family; bool reject_nh; bool fdb_nh; + __be16 fdb_port; union { struct fib_nh_common fib_nhc;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h b/include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h
index bc49baf4a..e587bbf3b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ enum { /* u32; read-only; whether any driver collects HW stats */ NHA_HW_STATS_USED, + /* be16; UDP destination port for an fdb nexthop (e.g. VXLAN) */ + NHA_FDB_PORT, + __NHA_MAX, };
diff --git a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
index 6205bd57a..5b27cc9a9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy rtm_nh_policy_new[] = { [NHA_ENCAP_TYPE] = { .type = NLA_U16 }, [NHA_ENCAP] = { .type = NLA_NESTED }, [NHA_FDB] = { .type = NLA_FLAG }, + [NHA_FDB_PORT] = { .type = NLA_U16 }, [NHA_RES_GROUP] = { .type = NLA_NESTED }, [NHA_HW_STATS_ENABLE] = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U32, true), };
@@ -956,6 +957,9 @@ static int nh_fill_node(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nexthop *nh, } else if (nhi->fdb_nh) { if (nla_put_flag(skb, NHA_FDB)) goto nla_put_failure; + if (nhi->fdb_port && + nla_put_be16(skb, NHA_FDB_PORT, nhi->fdb_port)) + goto nla_put_failure; } else { const struct net_device *dev;
@@ -1055,6 +1059,9 @@ static size_t nh_nlmsg_size_single(struct nexthop *nh) break; } + if (nhi->fdb_nh) + sz += nla_total_size(2); /* NHA_FDB_PORT */ + if (nhi->fib_nhc.nhc_lwtstate) { sz += lwtunnel_get_encap_size(nhi->fib_nhc.nhc_lwtstate); sz += nla_total_size(2); /* NHA_ENCAP_TYPE */
@@ -2956,8 +2963,10 @@ static struct nexthop *nexthop_create(struct net *net, struct nh_config *cfg, nhi->family = cfg->nh_family; nhi->fib_nhc.nhc_scope = RT_SCOPE_LINK; - if (cfg->nh_fdb) + if (cfg->nh_fdb) { nhi->fdb_nh = 1; + nhi->fdb_port = cfg->nh_fdb_port; + } if (cfg->nh_blackhole) { nhi->reject_nh = 1;
@@ -3147,6 +3156,15 @@ static int rtm_to_nh_config(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, cfg->nh_fdb = nla_get_flag(tb[NHA_FDB]); } + if (tb[NHA_FDB_PORT]) { + if (!tb[NHA_FDB] || !tb[NHA_GATEWAY]) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, + "FDB port can only be set on fdb nexthops that have a gateway"); + goto out; + } + cfg->nh_fdb_port = nla_get_be16(tb[NHA_FDB_PORT]); + } + if (tb[NHA_GROUP]) { if (nhm->nh_family != AF_UNSPEC) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Invalid family for group");
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