Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 4 authors, 2025-09-01

Re: [PATCH v3] icmp: fix icmp_ndo_send address translation for reply direction

From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: 2025-08-28 12:48:47
Also in: netfilter-devel

Fabian Bläse [off-list ref] wrote:
The icmp_ndo_send function was originally introduced to ensure proper
rate limiting when icmp_send is called by a network device driver,
where the packet's source address may have already been transformed
by SNAT.

However, the original implementation only considers the
IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL direction for SNAT and always replaced the packet's
source address with that of the original-direction tuple. This causes
two problems:

1. For SNAT:
   Reply-direction packets were incorrectly translated using the source
   address of the CT original direction, even though no translation is
   required.

2. For DNAT:
   Reply-direction packets were not handled at all. In DNAT, the original
   direction's destination is translated. Therefore, in the reply
   direction the source address must be set to the reply-direction
   source, so rate limiting works as intended.

Fix this by using the connection direction to select the correct tuple
for source address translation, and adjust the pre-checks to handle
reply-direction packets in case of DNAT.

Additionally, wrap the `ct->status` access in READ_ONCE(). This avoids
possible KCSAN reports about concurrent updates to `ct->status`.
Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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