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| author | Hannes Frederic Sowa | 2014-01-09 10:01:15 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2014-01-13 11:22:54 -0800 |
| commit | f87c10a8aa1e82498c42d0335524d6ae7cf5a52b (patch) | |
| tree | 85117fae4f0f25831d4232155b47f3f6553faf27 /Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | |
| parent | 6c76a07a711165a31332aa619215f961b115071d (diff) | |
ipv4: introduce ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward and protect forwarding path against pmtu spoofing
While forwarding we should not use the protocol path mtu to calculate
the mtu for a forwarded packet but instead use the interface mtu.
We mark forwarded skbs in ip_forward with IPSKB_FORWARDED, which was
introduced for multicast forwarding. But as it does not conflict with
our usage in unicast code path it is perfect for reuse.
I moved the functions ip_sk_accept_pmtu, ip_sk_use_pmtu and ip_skb_dst_mtu
along with the new ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward to net/ip.h to fix circular
dependencies because of IPSKB_FORWARDED.
Because someone might have written a software which does probe
destinations manually and expects the kernel to honour those path mtus
I introduced a new per-namespace "ip_forward_use_pmtu" knob so someone
can disable this new behaviour. We also still use mtus which are locked on a
route for forwarding.
The reason for this change is, that path mtus information can be injected
into the kernel via e.g. icmp_err protocol handler without verification
of local sockets. As such, this could cause the IPv4 forwarding path to
wrongfully emit fragmentation needed notifications or start to fragment
packets along a path.
Tunnel and ipsec output paths clear IPCB again, thus IPSKB_FORWARDED
won't be set and further fragmentation logic will use the path mtu to
determine the fragmentation size. They also recheck packet size with
help of path mtu discovery and report appropriate errors.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 7373115407e4..0d71fa962d8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER min_pmtu - INTEGER default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU +ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN + By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding + because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted + fragmentation by the router. + You only need to enable this if you have user-space software + which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the + kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the + case. + Default: 0 (disabled) + Possible values: + 0 - disabled + 1 - enabled + route/max_size - INTEGER Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes. |