From f87c10a8aa1e82498c42d0335524d6ae7cf5a52b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 10:01:15 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: David Miller Cc: John Heffner Cc: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3