[PATCH net] ipv4: icmp: reject non-unicast input routes in icmp_route_lookup
From: Dong Chenchen <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-11 13:21:51
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 the forward output route cannot be used in icmp_route_lookup(),
it enters the "reverse path" and calls ip_route_input() on fl4_dec.daddr,
the original packet's source address.
ip_route_input() only returns an error for truly invalid packets. For
local, broadcast, multicast and unreachable addresses it still succeeds
and returns an input route whose dst.output is set to ip_rt_bug(). The
existing check only rejects RTN_LOCAL routes, so the other route types
can still be returned and later used for output, syzkaller triggering a
WARN_ON_ONCE() in ip_rt_bug() as bellow:
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WARNING: net/ipv4/route.c:1273 at ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
RIP: 0010:ip_rt_bug+0x14/0x20
Call Trace:
ip_push_pending_frames+0xfa/0x100
__icmp_send+0x905/0xf10
ip_options_compile+0xc0/0xd0
ip_rcv_finish_core+0x321/0xae0
ip_rcv+0x1de/0x260
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x11a/0x130
netif_receive_skb+0x7b/0x260
tun_get_user+0x11bf/0x1c10
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If the original source address is unroutable, ip_route_input() returns a
RTN_UNREACHABLE input route with err == 0, and the ICMP reply is then sent
through ip_rt_bug().
Only RTN_UNICAST input routes have dst.output set to ip_output() and are
safe to use for output. Reject any input route that is not RTN_UNICAST.
Fixes: 8b7817f3a959 ("[IPSEC]: Add ICMP host relookup support")
Signed-off-by: Dong Chenchen <redacted>
---
net/ipv4/icmp.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
index 0caedfc7ca92..d58ac2f23f9f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c@@ -584,12 +584,14 @@ static struct rtable *icmp_route_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi4 *fl4, * At this point, fl4_dec.daddr should NOT be local (we * checked fl4_dec.saddr above). However, a race condition * may occur if the address is added to the interface - * concurrently. In that case, ip_route_input() returns a - * LOCAL route with dst.output=ip_rt_bug, which must not - * be used for output. + * concurrently, or if fl4_dec.daddr is otherwise unroutable. + * In that case, ip_route_input() returns an input route + * (RTN_LOCAL, RTN_BROADCAST, RTN_UNREACHABLE or + * RTN_MULTICAST) with dst.output set to ip_rt_bug(), which + * must not be used for output. */ - if (!err && rt2 && rt2->rt_type == RTN_LOCAL) { - net_warn_ratelimited("detected local route for %pI4 during ICMP sending, src %pI4\n", + if (!err && rt2 && rt2->rt_type != RTN_UNICAST) { + net_warn_ratelimited("detected unusable input route for %pI4 during ICMP sending, src %pI4\n", &fl4_dec.daddr, &fl4_dec.saddr); dst_release(&rt2->dst); err = -EINVAL;
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