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Daniel BorkmannandJakub Kicinski 3744b0964d ipv6: Implement limits on extension header parsing
ipv6_{skip_exthdr,find_hdr}() and ip6_{tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim,
protocol_deliver_rcu}() iterate over IPv6 extension headers until they
find a non-extension-header protocol or run out of packet data. The
loops have no iteration counter, relying solely on the packet length
to bound them. For a crafted packet with 8-byte extension headers
filling a 64KB jumbogram, this means a worst case of up to ~8k
iterations with a skb_header_pointer call each. ipv6_skip_exthdr(),
for example, is used where it parses the inner quoted packet inside
an incoming ICMPv6 error:

  - icmpv6_rcv
    - checksum validation
    - case ICMPV6_DEST_UNREACH
      - icmpv6_notify
        - pskb_may_pull()       <- pull inner IPv6 header
        - ipv6_skip_exthdr()    <- iterates here
        - pskb_may_pull()
        - ipprot->err_handler() <- sk lookup

The per-iteration cost of ipv6_skip_exthdr itself is generally
light, but skb_header_pointer becomes more costly on reassembled
packets: the first ~1232 bytes of the inner packet are in the skb's
linear area, but the remaining ~63KB are in the frag_list where
skb_copy_bits is needed to read data.

Initially, the idea was to add a configurable limit via a new
sysctl knob with default 8, in line with knobs from commit
47d3d7ac65 ("ipv6: Implement limits on Hop-by-Hop and Destination
options"), but two reasons eventually argued against it:

- It adds to UAPI that needs to be maintained forever, and
  upcoming work is restricting extension header ordering anyway,
  leaving little reason for another sysctl knob
- exthdrs_core.c is always built-in even when CONFIG_IPV6=n,
  where struct net has no .ipv6 member, so the read site would
  need an ifdef'd fallback to a constant anyway

Therefore, just use a constant (IP6_MAX_EXT_HDRS_CNT). All four
extension header walking functions are now bound by this limit.

Note that the check in ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu() happens right
before the goto resubmit, such that we don't have to have a test
for ipv6_ext_hdr() in the fast-path.

There's an ongoing IETF draft-iurman-6man-eh-occurrences to enforce
IPv6 extension headers ordering and occurrence. The latter also
discusses security implications. As per RFC8200 section 4.1, the
occurrence rules for extension headers provide a practical upper
bound which is 8. In order to be conservative, let's define
IP6_MAX_EXT_HDRS_CNT as 12 to leave enough room for quirky setups.
In the unlikely event that this is still not enough, then we might
need to reconsider a sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260429154648.809751-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-30 17:21:45 -07:00
Eric DumazetandJakub Kicinski 46cb1fcdb7 tcp: move tcp_v6_early_demux() to net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
tcp_v6_early_demux() has a single caller : ip6_rcv_finish_core().

Move it to net/ipv6/ip6_input.c and mark it static, for possible
compiler/linker optimizations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304022706.1062459-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-03-05 18:33:51 -08:00
Alice MikityanskaandJakub Kicinski b2936b4fd5 net/ipv6: Introduce payload_len helpers
The next commits will transition away from using the hop-by-hop
extension header to encode packet length for BIG TCP. Add wrappers
around ip6->payload_len that return the actual value if it's non-zero,
and calculate it from skb->len if payload_len is set to zero (and a
symmetrical setter).

The new helpers are used wherever the surrounding code supports the
hop-by-hop jumbo header for BIG TCP IPv6, or the corresponding IPv4 code
uses skb_ip_totlen (e.g., in include/net/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv6.h).

No behavioral change in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205133925.526371-2-alice.kernel@fastmail.im
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-02-06 20:50:03 -08:00
Willem de BruijnandJakub Kicinski d2527ad3a9 net: preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY with forwarding
MSG_ZEROCOPY data must be copied before data is queued to local
sockets, to avoid indefinite timeout until memory release.

This test is performed by skb_orphan_frags_rx, which is called when
looping an egress skb to packet sockets, error queue or ingress path.

To preserve zerocopy for skbs that are looped to ingress but are then
forwarded to an egress device rather than delivered locally, defer
this last check until an skb enters the local IP receive path.

This is analogous to existing behavior of skb_clear_delivery_time.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630194312.1571410-2-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-02 15:07:16 -07:00
Eric DumazetandJakub Kicinski 46a94e44b9 ipv6: ip6_mc_input() and ip6_mr_input() cleanups
Both functions are always called under RCU.

We remove the extra rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().

We use skb_dst_dev_net_rcu() instead of skb_dst_dev_net().

We use dev_net_rcu() instead of dev_net().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-11-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-02 14:32:30 -07:00
Eric DumazetandJakub Kicinski 93d1cff35a ipv6: adopt skb_dst_dev() and skb_dst_dev_net[_rcu]() helpers
Use the new helpers as a step to deal with potential dst->dev races.

v2: fix typo in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() (kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-10-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-02 14:32:30 -07:00
Eric DumazetandJakub Kicinski b768294d44 ipv6: Use RCU in ip6_input()
Instead of grabbing rcu_read_lock() from ip6_input_finish(),
do it earlier in is caller, so that ip6_input() access
to dev_net() can be validated by LOCKDEP.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250205155120.1676781-13-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-02-06 16:14:15 -08:00
Hongbo LiandJakub Kicinski 2a7dd251b6 net/ipv6: make use of the helper macro LIST_HEAD()
list_head can be initialized automatically with LIST_HEAD()
instead of calling INIT_LIST_HEAD(). Here we can simplify
the code.

Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240904093243.3345012-5-lihongbo22@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-09-06 18:10:21 -07:00
Eric DumazetandDavid S. Miller 2f0ff05a44 ipv6/addrconf: annotate data-races around devconf fields (II)
Final (?) round of this series.

Annotate lockless reads on following devconf fields,
because they be changed concurrently from /proc/net/ipv6/conf.

- accept_dad
- optimistic_dad
- use_optimistic
- use_oif_addrs_only
- ra_honor_pio_life
- keep_addr_on_down
- ndisc_notify
- ndisc_evict_nocarrier
- suppress_frag_ndisc
- addr_gen_mode
- seg6_enabled
- ioam6_enabled
- ioam6_id
- ioam6_id_wide
- drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast
- mldv[12]_unsolicited_report_interval
- force_mld_version
- force_tllao
- accept_untracked_na
- drop_unsolicited_na
- accept_source_route

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2024-03-01 08:42:33 +00:00
Eric DumazetandDavid S. Miller d289ab65b8 ipv6: annotate data-races around cnf.disable_ipv6
disable_ipv6 is read locklessly, add appropriate READ_ONCE()
and WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

v2: do not preload net before rtnl_trylock() in
    addrconf_disable_ipv6() (Jiri)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2024-03-01 08:42:30 +00:00
Sriram YagnaramanandDavid S. Miller 8423be8926 ipv6: ignore dst hint for multipath routes
Route hints when the nexthop is part of a multipath group causes packets
in the same receive batch to be sent to the same nexthop irrespective of
the multipath hash of the packet. So, do not extract route hint for
packets whose destination is part of a multipath group.

A new SKB flag IP6SKB_MULTIPATH is introduced for this purpose, set the
flag when route is looked up in fib6_select_path() and use it in
ip6_can_use_hint() to check for the existence of the flag.

Fixes: 197dbf24e3 ("ipv6: introduce and uses route look hints for list input.")
Signed-off-by: Sriram Yagnaraman <sriram.yagnaraman@est.tech>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2023-09-01 08:11:51 +01:00
Madhu KoriginjaandFlorian Westphal b0e214d212 netfilter: keep conntrack reference until IPsecv6 policy checks are done
Keep the conntrack reference until policy checks have been performed for
IPsec V6 NAT support, just like ipv4.

The reference needs to be dropped before a packet is
queued to avoid having the conntrack module unloadable.

Fixes: 58a317f106 ("netfilter: ipv6: add IPv6 NAT support")
Signed-off-by: Madhu Koriginja <madhu.koriginja@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2023-03-22 21:50:23 +01:00
Kuniyuki IwashimaandJakub Kicinski 11052589cf tcp/udp: Make early_demux back namespacified.
Commit e21145a987 ("ipv4: namespacify ip_early_demux sysctl knob") made
it possible to enable/disable early_demux on a per-netns basis.  Then, we
introduced two knobs, tcp_early_demux and udp_early_demux, to switch it for
TCP/UDP in commit dddb64bcb3 ("net: Add sysctl to toggle early demux for
tcp and udp").  However, the .proc_handler() was wrong and actually
disabled us from changing the behaviour in each netns.

We can execute early_demux if net.ipv4.ip_early_demux is on and each proto
.early_demux() handler is not NULL.  When we toggle (tcp|udp)_early_demux,
the change itself is saved in each netns variable, but the .early_demux()
handler is a global variable, so the handler is switched based on the
init_net's sysctl variable.  Thus, netns (tcp|udp)_early_demux knobs have
nothing to do with the logic.  Whether we CAN execute proto .early_demux()
is always decided by init_net's sysctl knob, and whether we DO it or not is
by each netns ip_early_demux knob.

This patch namespacifies (tcp|udp)_early_demux again.  For now, the users
of the .early_demux() handler are TCP and UDP only, and they are called
directly to avoid retpoline.  So, we can remove the .early_demux() handler
from inet6?_protos and need not dereference them in ip6?_rcv_finish_core().
If another proto needs .early_demux(), we can restore it at that time.

Fixes: dddb64bcb3 ("net: Add sysctl to toggle early demux for tcp and udp")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713175207.7727-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2022-07-15 18:50:35 -07:00
Eric DumazetandJakub Kicinski 0339d25a28 ipv6: fix NULL deref in ip6_rcv_core()
idev can be NULL, as the surrounding code suggests.

Fixes: 4daf841a2e ("net: ipv6: add skb drop reasons to ip6_rcv_core()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Menglong Dong <imagedong@tencent.com>
Cc: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
Cc: Hao Peng <flyingpeng@tencent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220413205653.1178458-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2022-04-15 14:05:18 -07:00
Menglong DongandDavid S. Miller eeab7e7ff4 net: ipv6: add skb drop reasons to ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu()
Replace kfree_skb() used in ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu() with
kfree_skb_reason().

No new reasons are added.

Some paths are ignored, as they are not common, such as encapsulation
on non-final protocol.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <imagedong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Hao Peng <flyingpeng@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-04-13 13:09:57 +01:00
Menglong DongandDavid S. Miller 4daf841a2e net: ipv6: add skb drop reasons to ip6_rcv_core()
Replace kfree_skb() used in ip6_rcv_core() with kfree_skb_reason().
No new drop reasons are added.

Seems now we use 'SKB_DROP_REASON_IP_INHDR' for too many case during
ipv6 header parse or check, just like what 'IPSTATS_MIB_INHDRERRORS'
do. Will it be too general and hard to know what happened?

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <imagedong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Hao Peng <flyingpeng@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-04-13 13:09:57 +01:00
Jeffrey JiandJakub Kicinski 794c24e992 net-core: rx_otherhost_dropped to core_stats
Increment rx_otherhost_dropped counter when packet dropped due to
mismatched dest MAC addr.

An example when this drop can occur is when manually crafting raw
packets that will be consumed by a user space application via a tap
device. For testing purposes local traffic was generated using trafgen
for the client and netcat to start a server

Tested: Created 2 netns, sent 1 packet using trafgen from 1 to the other
with "{eth(daddr=$INCORRECT_MAC...}", verified that iproute2 showed the
counter was incremented. (Also had to modify iproute2 to show the stat,
additional patch for that coming next.)

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Ji <jeffreyji@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220406172600.1141083-1-jeffreyjilinux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2022-04-07 20:32:49 -07:00
Martin KaFai LauandDavid S. Miller cd14e9b7b8 net: Postpone skb_clear_delivery_time() until knowing the skb is delivered locally
The previous patches handled the delivery_time in the ingress path
before the routing decision is made.  This patch can postpone clearing
delivery_time in a skb until knowing it is delivered locally and also
set the (rcv) timestamp if needed.  This patch moves the
skb_clear_delivery_time() from dev.c to ip_local_deliver_finish()
and ip6_input_finish().

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-03-03 14:38:48 +00:00
Eric DumazetandDavid S. Miller 145c7a7938 ipv6: make mc_forwarding atomic
This fixes minor data-races in ip6_mc_input() and
batadv_mcast_mla_rtr_flags_softif_get_ipv6()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-02-05 15:20:34 +00:00
Jakub KicinskiandDavid S. Miller dcc32f4f18 ipv6: weaken the v4mapped source check
This reverts commit 6af1799aaf.

Commit 6af1799aaf ("ipv6: drop incoming packets having a v4mapped
source address") introduced an input check against v4mapped addresses.
Use of such addresses on the wire is indeed questionable and not
allowed on public Internet. As the commit pointed out

  https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-02

lists potential issues.

Unfortunately there are applications which use v4mapped addresses,
and breaking them is a clear regression. For example v4mapped
addresses (or any semi-valid addresses, really) may be used
for uni-direction event streams or packet export.

Since the issue which sparked the addition of the check was with
TCP and request_socks in particular push the check down to TCPv6
and DCCP. This restores the ability to receive UDPv6 packets with
v4mapped address as the source.

Keep using the IPSTATS_MIB_INHDRERRORS statistic to minimize the
user-visible changes.

Fixes: 6af1799aaf ("ipv6: drop incoming packets having a v4mapped source address")
Reported-by: Sunyi Shao <sunyishao@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-03-18 11:19:23 -07:00
Leon RomanovskyandJakub Kicinski f9a4719cc1 ipv6: move udp declarations to net/udp.h
Fix the following compilation warning:

net/ipv6/udp.c:1031:30: warning: no previous prototype for 'udp_v6_early_demux' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
 1031 | INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE void udp_v6_early_demux(struct sk_buff *skb)
      |                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
net/ipv6/udp.c:1072:29: warning: no previous prototype for 'udpv6_rcv' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
 1072 | INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int udpv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
      |                             ^~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2021-02-04 18:37:57 -08:00
Joe StringerandAlexei Starovoitov cf7fbe660f bpf: Add socket assign support
Add support for TPROXY via a new bpf helper, bpf_sk_assign().

This helper requires the BPF program to discover the socket via a call
to bpf_sk*_lookup_*(), then pass this socket to the new helper. The
helper takes its own reference to the socket in addition to any existing
reference that may or may not currently be obtained for the duration of
BPF processing. For the destination socket to receive the traffic, the
traffic must be routed towards that socket via local route. The
simplest example route is below, but in practice you may want to route
traffic more narrowly (eg by CIDR):

  $ ip route add local default dev lo

This patch avoids trying to introduce an extra bit into the skb->sk, as
that would require more invasive changes to all code interacting with
the socket to ensure that the bit is handled correctly, such as all
error-handling cases along the path from the helper in BPF through to
the orphan path in the input. Instead, we opt to use the destructor
variable to switch on the prefetch of the socket.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200329225342.16317-2-joe@wand.net.nz
2020-03-30 13:45:04 -07:00
Paolo AbeniandDavid S. Miller 197dbf24e3 ipv6: introduce and uses route look hints for list input.
When doing RX batch packet processing, we currently always repeat
the route lookup for each ingress packet. When no custom rules are
in place, and there aren't routes depending on source addresses,
we know that packets with the same destination address will use
the same dst.

This change tries to avoid per packet route lookup caching
the destination address of the latest successful lookup, and
reusing it for the next packet when the above conditions are
in place. Ingress traffic for most servers should fit.

The measured performance delta under UDP flood vs a recvmmsg
receiver is as follow:

vanilla		patched		delta
Kpps		Kpps		%
1431		1674		+17

In the worst-case scenario - each packet has a different
destination address - the performance delta is within noise
range.

v3 -> v4:
 - support hints for SUBFLOW build, too (David A.)
 - several style fixes (Eric)

v2 -> v3:
 - add fib6_has_custom_rules() helpers (David A.)
 - add ip6_extract_route_hint() helper (Edward C.)
 - use hint directly in ip6_list_rcv_finish() (Willem)

v1 -> v2:
 - fix build issue with !CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
 - fix potential race when fib6_has_custom_rules is set
   while processing a packet batch

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-11-21 14:45:55 -08:00
Florian WestphalandDavid S. Miller 51210ad5a5 inet: do not call sublist_rcv on empty list
syzbot triggered struct net NULL deref in NF_HOOK_LIST:
RIP: 0010:NF_HOOK_LIST include/linux/netfilter.h:331 [inline]
RIP: 0010:ip6_sublist_rcv+0x5c9/0x930 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:292
 ipv6_list_rcv+0x373/0x4b0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:328
 __netif_receive_skb_list_ptype net/core/dev.c:5274 [inline]

Reason:
void ipv6_list_rcv(struct list_head *head, struct packet_type *pt,
                   struct net_device *orig_dev)
[..]
        list_for_each_entry_safe(skb, next, head, list) {
		/* iterates list */
                skb = ip6_rcv_core(skb, dev, net);
		/* ip6_rcv_core drops skb -> NULL is returned */
                if (skb == NULL)
                        continue;
	[..]
	}
	/* sublist is empty -> curr_net is NULL */
        ip6_sublist_rcv(&sublist, curr_dev, curr_net);

Before the recent change NF_HOOK_LIST did a list iteration before
struct net deref, i.e. it was a no-op in the empty list case.

List iteration now happens after *net deref, causing crash.

Follow the same pattern as the ip(v6)_list_rcv loop and add a list_empty
test for the final sublist dispatch too.

Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+c54f457cad330e57e967@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: ca58fbe06c ("netfilter: add and use nf_hook_slow_list()")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Tested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-10-29 17:54:29 -07:00
Eric DumazetandDavid S. Miller 6af1799aaf ipv6: drop incoming packets having a v4mapped source address
This began with a syzbot report. syzkaller was injecting
IPv6 TCP SYN packets having a v4mapped source address.

After an unsuccessful 4-tuple lookup, TCP creates a request
socket (SYN_RECV) and calls reqsk_queue_hash_req()

reqsk_queue_hash_req() calls sk_ehashfn(sk)

At this point we have AF_INET6 sockets, and the heuristic
used by sk_ehashfn() to either hash the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses
is to use ipv6_addr_v4mapped(&sk->sk_v6_daddr)

For the particular spoofed packet, we end up hashing V4 addresses
which were not initialized by the TCP IPv6 stack, so KMSAN fired
a warning.

I first fixed sk_ehashfn() to test both source and destination addresses,
but then faced various problems, including user-space programs
like packetdrill that had similar assumptions.

Instead of trying to fix the whole ecosystem, it is better
to admit that we have a dual stack behavior, and that we
can not build linux kernels without V4 stack anyway.

The dual stack API automatically forces the traffic to be IPv4
if v4mapped addresses are used at bind() or connect(), so it makes
no sense to allow IPv6 traffic to use the same v4mapped class.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-10-03 11:40:21 -04:00