[RFC PATCH iproute2] ip route: save: exclude rtnh_flags which can't be set
From: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-11 16:03:01
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
During "ip route save" we preserve all rtnh_flags, even those that can't be set directly by the userspace. This looks like a bug because a user can't restore route dump which was generated by "ip route save" back. This also prevents CRIU from correct restore of the containers with some route configurations inside. Reproducer: $ ip link add type veth $ ip addr add 10.0.0.1/24 dev veth0 $ ip link set veth0 up $ ip route add default via 10.0.0.1 $ ip route save > route_dump $ ip route restore < route_dump Error: Invalid rtm_flags - can not contain DEAD or LINKDOWN. Let's just omit non-settable rtnh_flags from the dump image. According to the check in the fib_create_info() kernel function it looks like we can't restore back only RTNH_F_DEAD and RTNH_F_LINKDOWN flags. But according to the ip route command manual user may set only RTNH_F_PERVASIVE and RTNH_F_ONLINK flags. Does this mean that all rest flags such as RTNH_F_OFFLOAD, RTNH_F_TRAP, and so on should be also filtered out on the kernel side as RTNH_F_DEAD and RTNH_F_LINKDOWN? I've checked that at the moment kernel doesn't prevent the setting of RTNH_F_OFFLOAD and RTNH_F_TRAP from the userspace side. Is this correct? If not then I am ready to prepare corresponding patches for the kernel. See also [RFC PATCH net-next] rtnetlink: add RTNH_F_REJECT_MASK Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Ahern <redacted> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Andrei Vagin <redacted> Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <redacted> Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <redacted> --- include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h | 3 +++ ip/iproute.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
index e01efa28..3ce9ba3c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h@@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ struct rtnexthop { #define RTNH_COMPARE_MASK (RTNH_F_DEAD | RTNH_F_LINKDOWN | \ RTNH_F_OFFLOAD | RTNH_F_TRAP) +/* these flags can't be set by the userspace */ +#define RTNH_F_REJECT_MASK (RTNH_F_DEAD | RTNH_F_LINKDOWN) + /* Macros to handle hexthops */ #define RTNH_ALIGNTO 4
diff --git a/ip/iproute.c b/ip/iproute.c
index 1447a5f7..88faadeb 100644
--- a/ip/iproute.c
+++ b/ip/iproute.c@@ -1632,6 +1632,12 @@ static int save_route(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg) if (!filter_nlmsg(n, tb, host_len)) return 0; + /* + * Exclude flags which can't be set directly + * by the userspace from the rtmsg dump. + */ + r->rtm_flags &= ~RTNH_F_REJECT_MASK; + ret = write(STDOUT_FILENO, n, n->nlmsg_len); if ((ret > 0) && (ret != n->nlmsg_len)) { fprintf(stderr, "Short write while saving nlmsg\n");
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