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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 63137ea242 icmp: don't send out ICMP messages with a source address of 0.0.0.0
[ Upstream commit 321827477360934dc040e9d3c626bf1de6c3ab3c ]

When constructing ICMP response messages, the kernel will try to pick a
suitable source address for the outgoing packet. However, if no IPv4
addresses are configured on the system at all, this will fail and we end up
producing an ICMP message with a source address of 0.0.0.0. This can happen
on a box routing IPv4 traffic via v6 nexthops, for instance.

Since 0.0.0.0 is not generally routable on the internet, there's a good
chance that such ICMP messages will never make it back to the sender of the
original packet that the ICMP message was sent in response to. This, in
turn, can create connectivity and PMTUd problems for senders. Fortunately,
RFC7600 reserves a dummy address to be used as a source for ICMP
messages (192.0.0.8/32), so let's teach the kernel to substitute that
address as a last resort if the regular source address selection procedure
fails.

Below is a quick example reproducing this issue with network namespaces:

ip netns add ns0
ip l add type veth peer netns ns0
ip l set dev veth0 up
ip a add 10.0.0.1/24 dev veth0
ip a add fc00:dead:cafe:42::1/64 dev veth0
ip r add 10.1.0.0/24 via inet6 fc00:dead:cafe:42::2
ip -n ns0 l set dev veth0 up
ip -n ns0 a add fc00:dead:cafe:42::2/64 dev veth0
ip -n ns0 r add 10.0.0.0/24 via inet6 fc00:dead:cafe:42::1
ip netns exec ns0 sysctl -w net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit=0
ip netns exec ns0 sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
tcpdump -tpni veth0 -c 2 icmp &
ping -w 1 10.1.0.1 > /dev/null
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v[v]... for full protocol decode
listening on veth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144 bytes
IP 10.0.0.1 > 10.1.0.1: ICMP echo request, id 29, seq 1, length 64
IP 0.0.0.0 > 10.0.0.1: ICMP net 10.1.0.1 unreachable, length 92
2 packets captured
2 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel

With this patch the above capture changes to:
IP 10.0.0.1 > 10.1.0.1: ICMP echo request, id 31127, seq 1, length 64
IP 192.0.0.8 > 10.0.0.1: ICMP net 10.1.0.1 unreachable, length 92

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-06-23 14:41:27 +02:00
arch kvm: LAPIC: Restore guard to prevent illegal APIC register access 2021-06-23 14:41:23 +02:00
block blk-mq: Swap two calls in blk_mq_exit_queue() 2021-05-19 10:08:30 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 10:26:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: rng - fix crypto_rng_reset() refcounting when !CRYPTO_STATS 2021-05-11 14:04:15 +02:00
Documentation XArray: add xas_split 2021-06-10 13:37:14 +02:00
drivers bnxt_en: Call bnxt_ethtool_free() in bnxt_init_one() error path 2021-06-23 14:41:27 +02:00
fs afs: Fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check 2021-06-23 14:41:23 +02:00
include icmp: don't send out ICMP messages with a source address of 0.0.0.0 2021-06-23 14:41:27 +02:00
init pid: take a reference when initializing cad_pid 2021-06-10 13:37:11 +02:00
ipc
kernel tracing: Correct the length check which causes memory corruption 2021-06-16 11:59:46 +02:00
lib lib/lz4: explicitly support in-place decompression 2021-06-10 13:37:16 +02:00
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mm mm/memory-failure: make sure wait for page writeback in memory_failure 2021-06-23 14:41:23 +02:00
net icmp: don't send out ICMP messages with a source address of 0.0.0.0 2021-06-23 14:41:27 +02:00
samples samples: vfio-mdev: fix error handing in mdpy_fb_probe() 2021-06-10 13:37:03 +02:00
scripts scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3 2021-05-22 11:38:30 +02:00
security security: commoncap: fix -Wstringop-overread warning 2021-05-11 14:04:16 +02:00
sound ASoC: sti-sas: add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE 2021-06-16 11:59:33 +02:00
tools perf session: Correct buffer copying when peeking events 2021-06-16 11:59:45 +02:00
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