[PATCH net] net: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2026-07-24 07:29:04
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
When inet_getpeer_v4() or inet_getpeer_v6() fails to allocate a peer entry
under memory pressure or tree size caps, redirect handlers previously fell
back to sending un-rate-limited ICMP/NDISC Redirect messages.
In IPv4, ip_rt_send_redirect() called icmp_send() directly when peer == NULL.
In IPv6, ip6_forward() and ndisc_send_redirect() passed a NULL peer into
inet_peer_xrlim_allow(), which returned true when peer == NULL.
Because ICMP/NDISC Redirects are not part of the default global rate limit
mask (sysctl_icmp_ratemask), sending redirects when peer == NULL creates
an un-rate-limited ICMP packet storm.
Fix this by failing closed in ip_rt_send_redirect(), ip6_forward(), and
ndisc_send_redirect() when peer is NULL.
Fixes: 92d868292634 ("inetpeer: Move ICMP rate limiting state into inet_peer entries.")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
net/ipv4/route.c | 2 --
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 3f3de5164d6e5854cae3ebe6fcecbac10fb63418..152d8cb28f65aacee378521e16885c9cf1a4870e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c@@ -892,8 +892,6 @@ void ip_rt_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb) peer = inet_getpeer_v4(net->ipv4.peers, ip_hdr(skb)->saddr, vif); if (!peer) { rcu_read_unlock(); - icmp_send(skb, ICMP_REDIRECT, ICMP_REDIR_HOST, - rt_nexthop(rt, ip_hdr(skb)->daddr)); return; }
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 368e4fa3b43ca2a96f53fa4f3bc14fd6832c346f..2c44e5ed617167ce060c265052cd40449fdab69f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb) /* Limit redirects both by destination (here) and by source (inside ndisc_send_redirect) */ - if (inet_peer_xrlim_allow(peer, 1*HZ)) + if (peer && inet_peer_xrlim_allow(peer, 1*HZ)) ndisc_send_redirect(skb, target); rcu_read_unlock(); } else {
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index f867ec8d3d90510c1ed92012c3b34ab8b49c9ac7..fe36b3f512850369e138b6a99ae7a9391494c2f1 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c@@ -1707,6 +1707,8 @@ void ndisc_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct in6_addr *target) } peer = inet_getpeer_v6(net->ipv6.peers, &ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr); + if (!peer) + goto release; ret = inet_peer_xrlim_allow(peer, 1*HZ); if (!ret)
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