[PATCH net] ipv6: fix 'disable_policy' for fwd packets

Subsystems: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest

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2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-07-06 · open the first message on its own page

[PATCH net] ipv6: fix 'disable_policy' for fwd packets

From: Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-06 09:13:44

The goal of commit df789fe75206 ("ipv6: Provide ipv6 version of
"disable_policy" sysctl") was to have the disable_policy from ipv4
available on ipv6.
However, it's not exactly the same mechanism. On IPv4, all packets coming
from an interface, which has disable_policy set, bypass the policy check.
For ipv6, this is done only for local packets, ie for packets destinated to
an address configured on the incoming interface.

Let's align ipv6 with ipv4 so that the 'disable_policy' sysctl has the same
effect for both protocols.

My first approach was to create a new kind of route cache entries, to be
able to set DST_NOPOLICY without modifying routes. This would have added a
lot of code. Because the local delivery path is already handled, I choose
to focus on the forwarding path to minimize code churn.

Fixes: df789fe75206 ("ipv6: Provide ipv6 version of "disable_policy" sysctl")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 984050f35c61..d4ee2169afd8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -479,7 +479,9 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (skb_warn_if_lro(skb))
 		goto drop;
 
-	if (!xfrm6_policy_check(NULL, XFRM_POLICY_FWD, skb)) {
+	if (!net->ipv6.devconf_all->disable_policy &&
+	    !idev->cnf.disable_policy &&
+	    !xfrm6_policy_check(NULL, XFRM_POLICY_FWD, skb)) {
 		__IP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, IPSTATS_MIB_INDISCARDS);
 		goto drop;
 	}
-- 
2.30.0

Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix 'disable_policy' for fwd packets

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2021-07-06 22:30:13

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):

On Tue,  6 Jul 2021 11:13:35 +0200 you wrote:
The goal of commit df789fe75206 ("ipv6: Provide ipv6 version of
"disable_policy" sysctl") was to have the disable_policy from ipv4
available on ipv6.
However, it's not exactly the same mechanism. On IPv4, all packets coming
from an interface, which has disable_policy set, bypass the policy check.
For ipv6, this is done only for local packets, ie for packets destinated to
an address configured on the incoming interface.

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] ipv6: fix 'disable_policy' for fwd packets
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/ccd27f05ae7b

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