[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ICMPv6: treat dest unreachable codes 5 and 6 as EACCES, not EPROTO" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ICMPv6: treat dest unreachable codes 5 and 6 as EACCES, not EPROTO

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.11.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d3f24f9bb015013ceeafdf772072f8aee5a980f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac at suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:18:45 +0200
Subject: ICMPv6: treat dest unreachable codes 5 and 6 as EACCES, not EPROTO

[ Upstream commit 61e76b178dbe7145e8d6afa84bb4ccea71918994 ]

RFC 4443 has defined two additional codes for ICMPv6 type 1 (destination
unreachable) messages:
        5 - Source address failed ingress/egress policy
	6 - Reject route to destination

Now they are treated as protocol error and icmpv6_err_convert() converts them
to EPROTO.

RFC 4443 says:
	"Codes 5 and 6 are more informative subsets of code 1."

Treat codes 5 and 6 as code 1 (EACCES)

Btw, connect() returning -EPROTO confuses firefox, so that fallback to
other/IPv4 addresses does not work:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910773

Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac at suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/icmpv6.h |  2 ++
 net/ipv6/icmp.c             | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/icmpv6.h b/include/uapi/linux/icmpv6.h
index e0133c7..590beda 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/icmpv6.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/icmpv6.h
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ struct icmp6hdr {
 #define ICMPV6_NOT_NEIGHBOUR		2
 #define ICMPV6_ADDR_UNREACH		3
 #define ICMPV6_PORT_UNREACH		4
+#define ICMPV6_POLICY_FAIL		5
+#define ICMPV6_REJECT_ROUTE		6

 /*
  *	Codes for Time Exceeded
diff --git a/net/ipv6/icmp.c b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
index fff5bdd..7463f05 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
@@ -924,6 +924,14 @@ static const struct icmp6_err {
 		.err	= ECONNREFUSED,
 		.fatal	= 1,
 	},
+	{	/* POLICY_FAIL */
+		.err	= EACCES,
+		.fatal	= 1,
+	},
+	{	/* REJECT_ROUTE	*/
+		.err	= EACCES,
+		.fatal	= 1,
+	},
 };

 int icmpv6_err_convert(u8 type, u8 code, int *err)
@@ -935,7 +943,7 @@ int icmpv6_err_convert(u8 type, u8 code, int *err)
 	switch (type) {
 	case ICMPV6_DEST_UNREACH:
 		fatal = 1;
-		if (code <= ICMPV6_PORT_UNREACH) {
+		if (code < ARRAY_SIZE(tab_unreach)) {
 			*err  = tab_unreach[code].err;
 			fatal = tab_unreach[code].fatal;
 		}
--
1.8.1.2