Invoke address resolution upon subsequent traffic to Failed neighbor

Removes the period of time in which subseqeuent traffic to a Failed neighbor
immediately fails with ErrNoLinkAddress. A Failed neighbor is one in which
address resolution fails; or in other words, the neighbor's IP address cannot
be translated to a MAC address.

This means removing the Failed state for linkAddrCache and allowing transitiong
out of Failed into Incomplete for neighborCache. Previously, both caches would
transition entries to Failed after address resolution fails. In this state, any
subsequent traffic requested within an unreachable time would immediately fail
with ErrNoLinkAddress. This does not follow RFC 4861 section 7.3.3:

  If address resolution fails, the entry SHOULD be deleted, so that subsequent
  traffic to that neighbor invokes the next-hop determination procedure again.
  Invoking next-hop determination at this point ensures that alternate default
  routers are tried.

The API for getting a link address for a given address, whether through the link
address cache or the neighbor table, is updated to optionally take a callback
which will be called when address resolution completes. This allows `Route` to
handle completing link resolution internally, so callers of (*Route).Resolve
(e.g. endpoints) don’t have to keep track of when it completes and update the
Route accordingly.

This change also removes the wakers from LinkAddressCache, NeighborCache, and
Route in favor of the callbacks, and callers that previously used a waker can
now just pass a callback to (*Route).Resolve that will notify the waker on
resolution completion.

Fixes #4796

Startblock:
  has LGTM from sbalana
  and then
  add reviewer ghanan
PiperOrigin-RevId: 348597478

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/link/qdisc/fifo/endpoint.go b/pkg/tcpip/link/qdisc/fifo/endpoint.go
index 27667f5f0..b7458b620 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/link/qdisc/fifo/endpoint.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/link/qdisc/fifo/endpoint.go
@@ -154,8 +154,7 @@ func (e *endpoint) GSOMaxSize() uint32 {
 func (e *endpoint) WritePacket(r *stack.Route, gso *stack.GSO, protocol tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber, pkt *stack.PacketBuffer) *tcpip.Error {
 	// WritePacket caller's do not set the following fields in PacketBuffer
 	// so we populate them here.
-	newRoute := r.Clone()
-	pkt.EgressRoute = newRoute
+	pkt.EgressRoute = r
 	pkt.GSOOptions = gso
 	pkt.NetworkProtocolNumber = protocol
 	d := e.dispatchers[int(pkt.Hash)%len(e.dispatchers)]
@@ -178,11 +177,6 @@ func (e *endpoint) WritePackets(_ *stack.Route, _ *stack.GSO, pkts stack.PacketB
 	for pkt := pkts.Front(); pkt != nil; {
 		d := e.dispatchers[int(pkt.Hash)%len(e.dispatchers)]
 		nxt := pkt.Next()
-		// Since qdisc can hold onto a packet for long we should Clone
-		// the route here to ensure it doesn't get released while the
-		// packet is still in our queue.
-		newRoute := pkt.EgressRoute.Clone()
-		pkt.EgressRoute = newRoute
 		if !d.q.enqueue(pkt) {
 			if enqueued > 0 {
 				d.newPacketWaker.Assert()
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/link/qdisc/fifo/packet_buffer_queue.go b/pkg/tcpip/link/qdisc/fifo/packet_buffer_queue.go
index eb5abb906..45adcbccb 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/link/qdisc/fifo/packet_buffer_queue.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/link/qdisc/fifo/packet_buffer_queue.go
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ func (q *packetBufferQueue) enqueue(s *stack.PacketBuffer) bool {
 	q.mu.Lock()
 	r := q.used < q.limit
 	if r {
+		s.EgressRoute.Acquire()
 		q.list.PushBack(s)
 		q.used++
 	}