tcp: resets are misrouted

[ Upstream commit 4c67525849e0b7f4bd4fab2487ec9e43ea52ef29 ]

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@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@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 00a748d14062d5f0410568be79aa6dc609a201be..db7bfad430822187475007c246d0fdc03ea0c3b5 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -693,10 +693,11 @@ 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 acd32e3f1b68e7c11fd211383e05b50dfd07ee6a..7e32d429ea6541e6a71799ba9dc63a050d369490 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -863,7 +863,8 @@ 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));