[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "tcp: resets are misrouted" has been added to staging queue

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Wed Dec 12 05:09:58 UTC 2012


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tcp: resets are misrouted

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 0fc222aab206b2c92a18bab88d9b35248873d71f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet at ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:34:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: resets are misrouted

commit 4c67525849e0b7f4bd4fab2487ec9e43ea52ef29 upstream.

After commit e2446eaa ("tcp_v4_send_reset: binding oif to iif in no
sock case").. tcp resets are always lost, when routing is asymmetric.
Yes, backing out that patch will result in misrouting of resets for
dead connections which used interface binding when were alive, but we
actually cannot do anything here.  What's died that's died and correct
handling normal unbound connections is obviously a priority.

Comment to comment:
> This has few benefits:
>   1. tcp_v6_send_reset already did that.

It was done to route resets for IPv6 link local addresses. It was a
mistake to do so for global addresses. The patch fixes this as well.

Actually, the problem appears to be even more serious than guaranteed
loss of resets.  As reported by Sergey Soloviev <sol at eqv.ru>, those
misrouted resets create a lot of arp traffic and huge amount of
unresolved arp entires putting down to knees NAT firewalls which use
asymmetric routing.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet at ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c |    7 ++++---
 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index c8d28c4..242edc6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -691,10 +691,11 @@ static void tcp_v4_send_reset(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	arg.csumoffset = offsetof(struct tcphdr, check) / 2;
 	arg.flags = (sk && inet_sk(sk)->transparent) ? IP_REPLY_ARG_NOSRCCHECK : 0;
 	/* When socket is gone, all binding information is lost.
-	 * routing might fail in this case. using iif for oif to
-	 * make sure we can deliver it
+	 * routing might fail in this case. No choice here, if we choose to force
+	 * input interface, we will misroute in case of asymmetric route.
 	 */
-	arg.bound_dev_if = sk ? sk->sk_bound_dev_if : inet_iif(skb);
+	if (sk)
+		arg.bound_dev_if = sk->sk_bound_dev_if;

 	net = dev_net(skb_dst(skb)->dev);
 	arg.tos = ip_hdr(skb)->tos;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 9df64a5..207251c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -896,7 +896,8 @@ static void tcp_v6_send_response(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 seq, u32 ack, u32 win,
 	__tcp_v6_send_check(buff, &fl6.saddr, &fl6.daddr);

 	fl6.flowi6_proto = IPPROTO_TCP;
-	fl6.flowi6_oif = inet6_iif(skb);
+	if (ipv6_addr_type(&fl6.daddr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)
+		fl6.flowi6_oif = inet6_iif(skb);
 	fl6.fl6_dport = t1->dest;
 	fl6.fl6_sport = t1->source;
 	security_skb_classify_flow(skb, flowi6_to_flowi(&fl6));
--
1.7.9.5





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