Re: Minor IPSec bug + solution

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 23:19, Herbert Xu wrote:

Martin Bouzek [off-list ref] wrote:

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I was setting up an VPN via IPSec in kernel 2.6.x on IPv4 and found the
following bug. It is not possible to set up an IPComp/ESP tunnel with
IPComp set as mandatory. The following setup works fine for me:

You can never set IPComp as mandatory because ipcomp_output() will not
compress anything that is incompressible.

Sure. I receive IP-IP packets and they are checked with the same rules
as IPComp.

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function. For tunnels it returns 

tmpl->optional && !xfrm_state_addr_cmp(tmpl, x, family);

The check is correct as it is.  Internal states must never match any
required transform.

Well, I am not expierienced with the networking kernel code,
nevertheless I still think the check is not correct. 

As I understand it, xfrm_state_addr_cmp returns 0 when tmpl->saddr is
0.0.0.0 (ipv4) or when tmpl->saddr.a4 == x->props.saddr.a4, that is why
there is the "!" before it. The "xfrm_state_ok" itself returns nonzero
if the tmpl matches the state. In such case the "xfrm_policy_ok" will 
return index to next state in sec_path. If no matching state is found
the "xfrm_policy_ok" returns -1 (if not tmpl->optional) and in such case
"__xfrm_policy_check" returns 0 and packet is rejected.

So the following happens for me when packet is received for mandatory
IPComp tunnel:

With my setup the pol->xfrm_nr is 1 and sp->len is 1 (in
"__xfrm_policy_check" context). "xfrm_policy_ok" is called and it calls
the "xfrm_state_ok". x->tunnel_users is 2 - so the 
"tmpl->optional && !xfrm_state_addr_cmp(tmpl, x, family)" is returned.
Because tmpl->optional is set to 0 (required IPComp),
xfrm_state_addr_cmp is not called at all and "xfrm_state_ok" returns 0.
Because sp->x[idx].xvec->props.mode is set, "xfrm_policy_ok" returns -1
(again tmpl->optional is 0). And so "__xfrm_policy_check" returns 0 and
packet is droped.

If you are still not convinced, please look at the xfrm_state_ok and the
part for non-tunnel. It clearly returns 1 when the tmpl and x matches.

Moreover with
"tmpl->optional || !xfrm_state_addr_cmp(tmpl, x, family);" in
"xfrm_state_ok" I can set up the mandatory IPComp without problems.
I am not sure there are not any side effects, but it seems ok to me.

Regards

Martin Bouzek
- martin.bouzek@radas-atc.cz