ospf6d: add support for unplanned graceful restart

In practical terms, unplanned GR refers to the act of recovering
from a software crash without affecting the forwarding plane.

Unplanned GR and Planned GR work virtually the same, except for the
following difference: on planned GR, the router sends the Grace-LSAs
*before* restarting, whereas in unplanned GR the router sends the
Grace-LSAs immediately *after* restarting.

For unplanned GR to work, ospf6d was modified to send a
ZEBRA_CLIENT_GR_CAPABILITIES message to zebra as soon as GR is
enabled.  This causes zebra to freeze the OSPF routes in the RIB as
soon as the ospf6d daemon dies, for as long as the configured grace
period (the defaults is 120 seconds). Similarly, ospf6d now stores in
non-volatile memory that GR is enabled as soon as GR is configured.
Those two things are no longer done during the GR preparation phase,
which only happens for planned GRs.

Unplanned GR will only take effect when the daemon is killed
abruptly (e.g. SIGSEGV, SIGKILL), otherwise all OSPF routes will be
uninstalled while ospf6d is exiting.  Once ospf6d starts, it will
check whether GR is enabled and enter in the GR mode if necessary,
sending Grace-LSAs out all operational interfaces.

One disadvantage of unplanned GR is that the neighboring routers
might time out their corresponding adjacencies if ospf6d takes too
long to come back up. This is especially the case when short dead
intervals are used (or BFD). For this and other reasons, planned
GR should be preferred whenever possible.

Signed-off-by: Renato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ospf6d/ospf6_zebra.c b/ospf6d/ospf6_zebra.c
index 6b3d4955da..1132c0a801 100644
--- a/ospf6d/ospf6_zebra.c
+++ b/ospf6d/ospf6_zebra.c
@@ -735,10 +735,20 @@ uint8_t ospf6_distance_apply(struct prefix_ipv6 *p, struct ospf6_route * or,
 
 static void ospf6_zebra_connected(struct zclient *zclient)
 {
+	struct ospf6 *ospf6;
+	struct listnode *node;
+
 	/* Send the client registration */
 	bfd_client_sendmsg(zclient, ZEBRA_BFD_CLIENT_REGISTER, VRF_DEFAULT);
 
 	zclient_send_reg_requests(zclient, VRF_DEFAULT);
+
+	/* Activate graceful restart if configured. */
+	for (ALL_LIST_ELEMENTS_RO(om6->ospf6, node, ospf6)) {
+		if (!ospf6->gr_info.restart_support)
+			continue;
+		(void)ospf6_zebra_gr_enable(ospf6, ospf6->gr_info.grace_period);
+	}
 }
 
 static zclient_handler *const ospf6_handlers[] = {