On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 10:03:42 -0700 David Ahern wrote:

On 11/26/20 11:09 AM, Guillaume Nault wrote:

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When inet_rtm_getroute() was converted to use the RCU variants of
ip_route_input() and ip_route_output_key(), the TOS parameters
stopped being masked with IPTOS_RT_MASK before doing the route lookup.

As a result, "ip route get" can return a different route than what
would be used when sending real packets.

For example:

    $ ip route add 192.0.2.11/32 dev eth0
    $ ip route add unreachable 192.0.2.11/32 tos 2
    $ ip route get 192.0.2.11 tos 2
    RTNETLINK answers: No route to host

But, packets with TOS 2 (ECT(0) if interpreted as an ECN bit) would
actually be routed using the first route:

    $ ping -c 1 -Q 2 192.0.2.11
    PING 192.0.2.11 (192.0.2.11) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 192.0.2.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.173 ms

    --- 192.0.2.11 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.173/0.173/0.173/0.000 ms

This patch re-applies IPTOS_RT_MASK in inet_rtm_getroute(), to
return results consistent with real route lookups.

Fixes: 3765d35ed8b9 ("net: ipv4: Convert inet_rtm_getroute to rcu versions of route lookup")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <redacted>

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>

Applied, thanks!

Should the discrepancy between the behavior of ip_route_input_rcu() and
ip_route_input() be addressed, possibly?