linux-stable.git/include/linux/ipv6.h, branch v5.15.208

Revert "ipv6: save dontfrag in cork"

2025-07-10T13:57:42+00:00

This reverts commit 2b572c40981138349c04b3f69220ac878a36c561 which is
commit a18dfa9925b9ef6107ea3aa5814ca3c704d34a8a upstream.

A regression was introduced when backporting this to the stable kernels
without applying previous commits in this series.

When sending IPv6 UDP packets larger than MTU, EMSGSIZE was returned
instead of fragmenting the packets as expected.

As there is no compelling reason for this commit to be present in the
stable kernels it should be reverted.

Signed-off-by: Brett A C Sheffield 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: save dontfrag in cork

2025-06-04T12:37:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit a18dfa9925b9ef6107ea3aa5814ca3c704d34a8a ]

When spanning datagram construction over multiple send calls using
MSG_MORE, per datagram settings are configured on the first send.

That is when ip(6)_setup_cork stores these settings for subsequent use
in __ip(6)_append_data and others.

The only flag that escaped this was dontfrag. As a result, a datagram
could be constructed with df=0 on the first sendmsg, but df=1 on a
next. Which is what cmsg_ip.sh does in an upcoming MSG_MORE test in
the "diff" scenario.

Changing datagram conditions in the middle of constructing an skb
makes this already complex code path even more convoluted. It is here
unintentional. Bring this flag in line with expected sockopt/cmsg
behavior.

And stop passing ipc6 to __ip6_append_data, to avoid such issues
in the future. This is already the case for __ip_append_data.

inet6_cork had a 6 byte hole, so the 1B flag has no impact.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307033620.411611-3-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: change accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to affect all RA lifetimes

2023-10-19T21:05:35+00:00

commit 5027d54a9c30bc7ec808360378e2b4753f053f25 upstream.

accept_ra_min_rtr_lft only considered the lifetime of the default route
and discarded entire RAs accordingly.

This change renames accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to accept_ra_min_lft, and
applies the value to individual RA sections; in particular, router
lifetime, PIO preferred lifetime, and RIO lifetime. If any of those
lifetimes are lower than the configured value, the specific RA section
is ignored.

In order for the sysctl to be useful to Android, it should really apply
to all lifetimes in the RA, since that is what determines the minimum
frequency at which RAs must be processed by the kernel. Android uses
hardware offloads to drop RAs for a fraction of the minimum of all
lifetimes present in the RA (some networks have very frequent RAs (5s)
with high lifetimes (2h)). Despite this, we have encountered networks
that set the router lifetime to 30s which results in very frequent CPU
wakeups. Instead of disabling IPv6 (and dropping IPv6 ethertype in the
WiFi firmware) entirely on such networks, it seems better to ignore the
misconfigured routers while still processing RAs from other IPv6 routers
on the same network (i.e. to support IoT applications).

The previous implementation dropped the entire RA based on router
lifetime. This turned out to be hard to expand to the other lifetimes
present in the RA in a consistent manner; dropping the entire RA based
on RIO/PIO lifetimes would essentially require parsing the whole thing
twice.

Fixes: 1671bcfd76fd ("net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft")
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti 
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr 
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726230701.919212-1-prohr@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft

2023-10-19T21:05:35+00:00

commit 1671bcfd76fdc0b9e65153cf759153083755fe4c upstream.

This change adds a new sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to specify the
minimum acceptable router lifetime in an RA. If the received RA router
lifetime is less than the configured value (and not 0), the RA is
ignored.
This is useful for mobile devices, whose battery life can be impacted
by networks that configure RAs with a short lifetime. On such networks,
the device should never gain IPv6 provisioning and should attempt to
drop RAs via hardware offload, if available.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr 
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: make mc_forwarding atomic

2022-04-13T18:59:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit 145c7a793838add5e004e7d49a67654dc7eba147 ]

This fixes minor data-races in ip6_mc_input() and
batadv_mcast_mla_rtr_flags_softif_get_ipv6()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

icmp: ICMPV6: Examine invoking packet for Segment Route Headers.

2022-01-27T10:05:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit e41294408c56c68ea0f269d757527bf33b39118a ]

RFC8754 says:

ICMP error packets generated within the SR domain are sent to source
nodes within the SR domain.  The invoking packet in the ICMP error
message may contain an SRH.  Since the destination address of a packet
with an SRH changes as each segment is processed, it may not be the
destination used by the socket or application that generated the
invoking packet.

For the source of an invoking packet to process the ICMP error
message, the ultimate destination address of the IPv6 header may be
required.  The following logic is used to determine the destination
address for use by protocol-error handlers.

*  Walk all extension headers of the invoking IPv6 packet to the
   routing extension header preceding the upper-layer header.

   -  If routing header is type 4 Segment Routing Header (SRH)

      o  The SID at Segment List[0] may be used as the destination
         address of the invoking packet.

Mangle the skb so the network header points to the invoking packet
inside the ICMP packet. The seg6 helpers can then be used on the skb
to find any segment routing headers. If found, mark this fact in the
IPv6 control block of the skb, and store the offset into the packet of
the SRH. Then restore the skb back to its old state.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipv6: move inet6_sk(sk)->rx_dst_cookie to sk->sk_rx_dst_cookie

2021-12-29T11:28:42+00:00

[ Upstream commit ef57c1610dd8fba5031bf71e0db73356190de151 ]

Increase cache locality by moving rx_dst_coookie next to sk->sk_rx_dst

This removes one or two cache line misses in IPv6 early demux (TCP/UDP)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipv6: ioam: Data plane support for Pre-allocated Trace

2021-07-21T15:14:33+00:00

Implement support for processing the IOAM Pre-allocated Trace with IPv6,
see [1] and [2]. Introduce a new IPv6 Hop-by-Hop TLV option, see IANA [3].

A new per-interface sysctl is introduced. The value is a boolean to accept (=1)
or ignore (=0, by default) IPv6 IOAM options on ingress for an interface:
 - net.ipv6.conf.XXX.ioam6_enabled

Two other sysctls are introduced to define IOAM IDs, represented by an integer.
They are respectively per-namespace and per-interface:
 - net.ipv6.ioam6_id
 - net.ipv6.conf.XXX.ioam6_id

The value of the first one represents the IOAM ID of the node itself (u32; max
and default value = U32_MAX>>8, due to hop limit concatenation) while the other
represents the IOAM ID of an interface (u16; max and default value = U16_MAX).

Each "ioam6_id" sysctl has a "_wide" equivalent:
 - net.ipv6.ioam6_id_wide
 - net.ipv6.conf.XXX.ioam6_id_wide

The value of the first one represents the wide IOAM ID of the node itself (u64;
max and default value = U64_MAX>>8, due to hop limit concatenation) while the
other represents the wide IOAM ID of an interface (u32; max and default value
= U32_MAX).

The use of short and wide equivalents is not exclusive, a deployment could
choose to leverage both. For example, net.ipv6.conf.XXX.ioam6_id (short format)
could be an identifier for a physical interface, whereas
net.ipv6.conf.XXX.ioam6_id_wide (wide format) could be an identifier for a
logical sub-interface. Documentation about new sysctls is provided at the end
of this patchset.

Two relativistic hash tables are used: one for IOAM namespaces, the other for
IOAM schemas. A namespace can only have a single active schema and a schema
can only be attached to a single namespace (1:1 relationship).

  [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-ipv6-options
  [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data
  [3] https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-parameters/ipv6-parameters.xhtml#ipv6-parameters-2

Signed-off-by: Justin Iurman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: icmp: pass zeroed opts from icmp{,v6}_ndo_send before sending

2021-02-23T19:29:52+00:00

The icmp{,v6}_send functions make all sorts of use of skb->cb, casting
it with IPCB or IP6CB, assuming the skb to have come directly from the
inet layer. But when the packet comes from the ndo layer, especially
when forwarded, there's no telling what might be in skb->cb at that
point. As a result, the icmp sending code risks reading bogus memory
contents, which can result in nasty stack overflows such as this one
reported by a user:

    panic+0x108/0x2ea
    __stack_chk_fail+0x14/0x20
    __icmp_send+0x5bd/0x5c0
    icmp_ndo_send+0x148/0x160

In icmp_send, skb->cb is cast with IPCB and an ip_options struct is read
from it. The optlen parameter there is of particular note, as it can
induce writes beyond bounds. There are quite a few ways that can happen
in __ip_options_echo. For example:

    // sptr/skb are attacker-controlled skb bytes
    sptr = skb_network_header(skb);
    // dptr/dopt points to stack memory allocated by __icmp_send
    dptr = dopt->__data;
    // sopt is the corrupt skb->cb in question
    if (sopt->rr) {
        optlen  = sptr[sopt->rr+1]; // corrupt skb->cb + skb->data
        soffset = sptr[sopt->rr+2]; // corrupt skb->cb + skb->data
	// this now writes potentially attacker-controlled data, over
	// flowing the stack:
        memcpy(dptr, sptr+sopt->rr, optlen);
    }

In the icmpv6_send case, the story is similar, but not as dire, as only
IP6CB(skb)->iif and IP6CB(skb)->dsthao are used. The dsthao case is
worse than the iif case, but it is passed to ipv6_find_tlv, which does
a bit of bounds checking on the value.

This is easy to simulate by doing a `memset(skb->cb, 0x41,
sizeof(skb->cb));` before calling icmp{,v6}_ndo_send, and it's only by
good fortune and the rarity of icmp sending from that context that we've
avoided reports like this until now. For example, in KASAN:

    BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __ip_options_echo+0xa0e/0x12b0
    Write of size 38 at addr ffff888006f1f80e by task ping/89
    CPU: 2 PID: 89 Comm: ping Not tainted 5.10.0-rc7-debug+ #5
    Call Trace:
     dump_stack+0x9a/0xcc
     print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1a/0x160
     __kasan_report.cold+0x20/0x38
     kasan_report+0x32/0x40
     check_memory_region+0x145/0x1a0
     memcpy+0x39/0x60
     __ip_options_echo+0xa0e/0x12b0
     __icmp_send+0x744/0x1700

Actually, out of the 4 drivers that do this, only gtp zeroed the cb for
the v4 case, while the rest did not. So this commit actually removes the
gtp-specific zeroing, while putting the code where it belongs in the
shared infrastructure of icmp{,v6}_ndo_send.

This commit fixes the issue by passing an empty IPCB or IP6CB along to
the functions that actually do the work. For the icmp_send, this was
already trivial, thanks to __icmp_send providing the plumbing function.
For icmpv6_send, this required a tiny bit of refactoring to make it
behave like the v4 case, after which it was straight forward.

Fixes: a2b78e9b2cac ("sunvnet: generate ICMP PTMUD messages for smaller port MTUs")
Reported-by: SinYu 
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAF=yD-LOF116aHub6RMe8vB8ZpnrrnoTdqhobEx+bvoA8AsP0w@mail.gmail.com/T/
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223131858.72082-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement

2021-01-27T02:39:45+00:00

For IPv4, default route is learned via DHCPv4 and user is allowed to change
metric using config etc/network/interfaces. But for IPv6, default route can
be learned via RA, for which, currently a fixed metric value 1024 is used.

Ideally, user should be able to configure metric on default route for IPv6
similar to IPv4. This patch adds sysctl for the same.

Logs:

For IPv4:

Config in etc/network/interfaces:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
    metric 4261413864

IPv4 Kernel Route Table:
$ ip route list
default via 172.21.47.1 dev eth0 metric 4261413864

FRR Table, if a static route is configured:
[In real scenario, it is useful to prefer BGP learned default route over DHCPv4 default route.]
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP,
       O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, P - PIM, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP,
       T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
       > - selected route, * - FIB route

S>* 0.0.0.0/0 [20/0] is directly connected, eth0, 00:00:03
K   0.0.0.0/0 [254/1000] via 172.21.47.1, eth0, 6d08h51m

i.e. User can prefer Default Router learned via Routing Protocol in IPv4.
Similar behavior is not possible for IPv6, without this fix.

After fix [for IPv6]:
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric=1996489705

IP monitor: [When IPv6 RA is received]
default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705  pref high

Kernel IPv6 routing table
$ ip -6 route list
default via fe80::be16:65ff:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705 expires 21sec hoplimit 64 pref high

FRR Table, if a static route is configured:
[In real scenario, it is useful to prefer BGP learned default route over IPv6 RA default route.]
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIPng,
       O - OSPFv3, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, N - NHRP, T - Table,
       v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
       > - selected route, * - FIB route

S>* ::/0 [20/0] is directly connected, eth0, 00:00:06
K   ::/0 [119/1001] via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e, eth0, 6d07h43m

If the metric is changed later, the effect will be seen only when next IPv6
RA is received, because the default route must be fully controlled by RA msg.
Below metric is changed from 1996489705 to 1996489704.

$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric=1996489704
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.ra_defrtr_metric = 1996489704

IP monitor:
[On next IPv6 RA msg, Kernel deletes prev route and installs new route with updated metric]

Deleted default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489705 expires 3sec hoplimit 64 pref high
default via fe80::xx16:xxxx:feb3:ce8e dev eth0 proto ra metric 1996489704 pref high

Signed-off-by: Praveen Chaudhary 
Signed-off-by: Zhenggen Xu 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210125214430.24079-1-pchaudhary@linkedin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski