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Brian Haley
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When set to zero, the neighbor sysctl proxy_delay value does not cause an immediate reply for ARP/ND requests as expected, it instead causes a random delay between [0, U32_MAX). Looking at this comment from __get_random_u32_below() explains the reason: /* * This function is technically undefined for ceil == 0, and in fact * for the non-underscored constant version in the header, we build bug * on that. But for the non-constant case, it's convenient to have that * evaluate to being a straight call to get_random_u32(), so that * get_random_u32_inclusive() can work over its whole range without * undefined behavior. */ Added helper function that does not call get_random_u32_below() if proxy_delay is zero and just uses the current value of jiffies instead, causing pneigh_enqueue() to respond immediately. Also added definition of proxy_delay to ip-sysctl.txt since it was missing. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <haleyb.dev@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130171428.367111-1-haleyb.dev@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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