This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ipv6-skip-xfrm-lookup-if-dst_entry-in-socket-cache-is-valid.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 00bc0ef5880dc7b82f9c320dead4afaad48e47be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jakub Sitnicki jkbs@redhat.com Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:13:34 +0200 Subject: ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid

From: Jakub Sitnicki jkbs@redhat.com

commit 00bc0ef5880dc7b82f9c320dead4afaad48e47be upstream.

At present we perform an xfrm_lookup() for each UDPv6 message we send. The lookup involves querying the flow cache (flow_cache_lookup) and, in case of a cache miss, creating an XFRM bundle.

If we miss the flow cache, we can end up creating a new bundle and deriving the path MTU (xfrm_init_pmtu) from on an already transformed dst_entry, which we pass from the socket cache (sk->sk_dst_cache) down to xfrm_lookup(). This can happen only if we're caching the dst_entry in the socket, that is when we're using a connected UDP socket.

To put it another way, the path MTU shrinks each time we miss the flow cache, which later on leads to incorrectly fragmented payload. It can be observed with ESPv6 in transport mode:

1) Set up a transformation and lower the MTU to trigger fragmentation # ip xfrm policy add dir out src ::1 dst ::1 \ tmpl src ::1 dst ::1 proto esp spi 1 # ip xfrm state add src ::1 dst ::1 \ proto esp spi 1 enc 'aes' 0x0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b # ip link set dev lo mtu 1500

2) Monitor the packet flow and set up an UDP sink # tcpdump -ni lo -ttt & # socat udp6-listen:12345,fork /dev/null &

3) Send a datagram that needs fragmentation with a connected socket # perl -e 'print "@" x 1470 | socat - udp6:[::1]:12345 2016/06/07 18:52:52 socat[724] E read(3, 0x555bb3d5ba00, 8192): Protocol error 00:00:00.000000 IP6 ::1 > ::1: frag (0|1448) ESP(spi=0x00000001,seq=0x2), length 1448 00:00:00.000014 IP6 ::1 > ::1: frag (1448|32) 00:00:00.000050 IP6 ::1 > ::1: ESP(spi=0x00000001,seq=0x3), length 1272 (^ ICMPv6 Parameter Problem) 00:00:00.000022 IP6 ::1 > ::1: ESP(spi=0x00000001,seq=0x5), length 136

4) Compare it to a non-connected socket # perl -e 'print "@" x 1500' | socat - udp6-sendto:[::1]:12345 00:00:40.535488 IP6 ::1 > ::1: frag (0|1448) ESP(spi=0x00000001,seq=0x6), length 1448 00:00:00.000010 IP6 ::1 > ::1: frag (1448|64)

What happens in step (3) is:

1) when connecting the socket in __ip6_datagram_connect(), we perform an XFRM lookup, miss the flow cache, create an XFRM bundle, and cache the destination,

2) afterwards, when sending the datagram, we perform an XFRM lookup, again, miss the flow cache (due to mismatch of flowi6_iif and flowi6_oif, which is an issue of its own), and recreate an XFRM bundle based on the cached (and already transformed) destination.

To prevent the recreation of an XFRM bundle, avoid an XFRM lookup altogether whenever we already have a destination entry cached in the socket. This prevents the path MTU shrinkage and brings us on par with UDPv4.

The fix also benefits connected PINGv6 sockets, another user of ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow(), who also suffer messages being transformed twice.

Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa.

Reported-by: Jan Tluka jtluka@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki jkbs@redhat.com Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa hannes@stressinduktion.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Benedict Wong benedictwong@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -1038,17 +1038,12 @@ struct dst_entry *ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow const struct in6_addr *final_dst) { struct dst_entry *dst = sk_dst_check(sk, inet6_sk(sk)->dst_cookie); - int err;

dst = ip6_sk_dst_check(sk, dst, fl6); + if (!dst) + dst = ip6_dst_lookup_flow(sk, fl6, final_dst);

- err = ip6_dst_lookup_tail(sk, &dst, fl6); - if (err) - return ERR_PTR(err); - if (final_dst) - fl6->daddr = *final_dst; - - return xfrm_lookup_route(sock_net(sk), dst, flowi6_to_flowi(fl6), sk, 0); + return dst; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jkbs@redhat.com are

queue-3.18/ipv6-skip-xfrm-lookup-if-dst_entry-in-socket-cache-is-valid.patch