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Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device

From David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device
Date 2016-11-14 18:00 +0100
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On 11/14/16 9:44 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016, at 00:28, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> This puts the IPv6 routing functions in parity with the IPv4 routing
>> functions. Namely, we now check in v6 that if a flowi6 requests an
>> saddr, the returned dst actually corresponds to a net device that has
>> that saddr. This mirrors the v4 logic with __ip_dev_find in
>> __ip_route_output_key_hash. In the event that the returned dst is not
>> for a dst with a dev that has the saddr, we return -EINVAL, just like
>> v4; this makes it easy to use the same error handlers for both cases.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
>> Cc: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
>> ---
>> Changes from v2:
>>     It turns out ipv6_chk_addr already has the device enumeration
>>     logic that we need by simply passing NULL.
>>
>>  net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
>> index 6001e78..b3b5cb6 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
>> @@ -926,6 +926,10 @@ static int ip6_dst_lookup_tail(struct net *net,
>> const struct sock *sk,
>>  	int err;
>>  	int flags = 0;
>>  
>> +       if (!ipv6_addr_any(&fl6->saddr) &&
>> +           !ipv6_chk_addr(net, &fl6->saddr, NULL, 1))
>> +               return -EINVAL;
> 
> Hmm, this check is too permissive, no?
> 
> E.g. what happens if you move a link local address from one interface to
> another? In this case this code would still allow the saddr to be used.

This check -- like the ipv4 variant -- only verifies the saddr is locally assigned. If the address moves interfaces it should be fine.

> 
> I just also quickly read up on the history (sorry was travelling last
> week) and wonder if you ever saw a user space facing bug or if this is
> basically some difference you saw while writing out of tree code?

I checked the userspace API this morning. bind and cmsg for example check that the address is valid with calls to ipv6_chk_addr.

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Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-11 23:30 +0100
  Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-12 03:20 +0100
    Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-12 16:50 +0100
      Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-12 19:20 +0100
        Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-12 20:10 +0100
          Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-13 01:50 +0100
            Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-11-13 02:00 +0100
              Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-13 02:10 +0100
                [PATCH] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-13 14:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-13 17:40 +0100
                [PATCH v2] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-13 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-13 21:50 +0100
                [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-14 00:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-14 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-11-14 17:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-14 18:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-11-14 18:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-14 18:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-11-14 18:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-14 18:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-11-14 19:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-15 01:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-11-15 15:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to  device David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-15 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-13 21:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2016-11-13 21:40 +0100
            Re: Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-11-13 02:00 +0100

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