kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6/icmp.c, branch v6.1.174

ipv6: icmp: clear skb2->cb[] in ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach()

2026-04-11T12:16:20+00:00

[ Upstream commit 86ab3e55673a7a49a841838776f1ab18d23a67b5 ] Sashiko AI-review observed: In ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach(), the skb is an outer IPv4 ICMP error packet where its cb contains an IPv4 inet_skb_parm. When skb is cloned into skb2 and passed to icmp6_send(), it uses IP6CB(skb2). IP6CB interprets the IPv4 inet_skb_parm as an inet6_skb_parm. The cipso offset in inet_skb_parm.opt directly overlaps with dsthao in inet6_skb_parm at offset 18. If an attacker sends a forged ICMPv4 error with a CIPSO IP option, dsthao would be a non-zero offset. Inside icmp6_send(), mip6_addr_swap() is called and uses ipv6_find_tlv(skb, opt->dsthao, IPV6_TLV_HAO). This would scan the inner, attacker-controlled IPv6 packet starting at that offset, potentially returning a fake TLV without checking if the remaining packet length can hold the full 18-byte struct ipv6_destopt_hao. Could mip6_addr_swap() then perform a 16-byte swap that extends past the end of the packet data into skb_shared_info? Should the cb array also be cleared in ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach() and ip6ip6_err() to prevent this? This patch implements the first suggestion. I am not sure if ip6ip6_err() needs to be changed. A separate patch would be better anyway. Fixes: ca15a078bd90 ("sit: generate icmpv6 error when receiving icmpv4 error") Reported-by: Ido Schimmel Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260326155138.2429480-1-edumazet%40google.com Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Oskar Kjos Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326202608.2976021-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

icmp: move icmp_global.credit and icmp_global.stamp to per netns storage

2026-03-04T12:20:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit b056b4cd9178f7a1d5d57f7b48b073c29729ddaa ] Host wide ICMP ratelimiter should be per netns, to provide better isolation. Following patch in this series makes the sysctl per netns. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240829144641.3880376-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 034bbd806298 ("icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipv6: use the right ifindex when replying to icmpv6 from localhost

2026-02-06T15:44:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 03cbcdf93866e61beb0063392e6dbb701f03aea2 ] When replying to a ICMPv6 echo request that comes from localhost address the right output ifindex is 1 (lo) and not rt6i_idev dev index. Use the skb device ifindex instead. This fixes pinging to a local address from localhost source address. $ ping6 -I ::1 2001:1:1::2 -c 3 PING 2001:1:1::2 (2001:1:1::2) from ::1 : 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2001:1:1::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms 64 bytes from 2001:1:1::2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms 64 bytes from 2001:1:1::2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms 2001:1:1::2 ping statistics 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2032ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.076/0.122/0.035 ms Fixes: 1b70d792cf67 ("ipv6: Use rt6i_idev index for echo replies to a local address") Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121194409.6749-1-fmancera@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

inetpeer: do not get a refcount in inet_getpeer()

2025-02-21T12:49:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit a853c609504e2d1d83e71285e3622fda1f1451d8 ] All inet_getpeer() callers except ip4_frag_init() don't need to acquire a permanent refcount on the inetpeer. They can switch to full RCU protection. Move the refcount_inc_not_zero() into ip4_frag_init(), so that all the other callers no longer have to perform a pair of expensive atomic operations on a possibly contended cache line. inet_putpeer() no longer needs to be exported. After this patch, my DUT can receive 8,400,000 UDP packets per second targeting closed ports, using 50% less cpu cycles than before. Also change two calls to l3mdev_master_ifindex() by l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu() (Ido ideas) Fixes: 8c2bd38b95f7 ("icmp: change the order of rate limits") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241215175629.1248773-5-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

inetpeer: remove create argument of inet_getpeer_v[46]()

2025-02-21T12:49:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit 661cd8fc8e9039819ca0c22e0add52b632240a9e ] All callers of inet_getpeer_v4() and inet_getpeer_v6() want to create an inetpeer. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241215175629.1248773-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: a853c609504e ("inetpeer: do not get a refcount in inet_getpeer()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

icmp: change the order of rate limits

2024-10-17T13:21:27+00:00

commit 8c2bd38b95f75f3d2a08c93e35303e26d480d24e upstream. ICMP messages are ratelimited : After the blamed commits, the two rate limiters are applied in this order: 1) host wide ratelimit (icmp_global_allow()) 2) Per destination ratelimit (inetpeer based) In order to avoid side-channels attacks, we need to apply the per destination check first. This patch makes the following change : 1) icmp_global_allow() checks if the host wide limit is reached. But credits are not yet consumed. This is deferred to 3) 2) The per destination limit is checked/updated. This might add a new node in inetpeer tree. 3) icmp_global_consume() consumes tokens if prior operations succeeded. This means that host wide ratelimit is still effective in keeping inetpeer tree small even under DDOS. As a bonus, I removed icmp_global.lock as the fast path can use a lock-free operation. Fixes: c0303efeab73 ("net: reduce cycles spend on ICMP replies that gets rate limited") Fixes: 4cdf507d5452 ("icmp: add a global rate limitation") Reported-by: Keyu Man Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240829144641.3880376-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

icmp: Add counters for rate limits

2024-10-17T13:21:27+00:00

commit d0941130c93515411c8d66fc22bdae407b509a6d upstream. There are multiple ICMP rate limiting mechanisms: * Global limits: net.ipv4.icmp_msgs_burst/icmp_msgs_per_sec * v4 per-host limits: net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit/ratemask * v6 per-host limits: net.ipv6.icmp_ratelimit/ratemask However, when ICMP output is limited, there is no way to tell which limit has been hit or even if the limits are responsible for the lack of ICMP output. Add counters for each of the cases above. As we are within local_bh_disable(), use the __INC stats variant. Example output: # nstat -sz "*RateLimit*" IcmpOutRateLimitGlobal 134 0.0 IcmpOutRateLimitHost 770 0.0 Icmp6OutRateLimitHost 84 0.0 Signed-off-by: Jamie Bainbridge Suggested-by: Abhishek Rawal Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/273b32241e6b7fdc5c609e6f5ebc68caf3994342.1674605770.git.jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

icmp6: Fix null-ptr-deref of ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev in icmp6_dev().

2023-07-23T11:49:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2aaa8a15de73874847d62eb595c6683bface80fd ] With some IPv6 Ext Hdr (RPL, SRv6, etc.), we can send a packet that has the link-local address as src and dst IP and will be forwarded to an external IP in the IPv6 Ext Hdr. For example, the script below generates a packet whose src IP is the link-local address and dst is updated to 11::. # for f in $(find /proc/sys/net/ -name *seg6_enabled*); do echo 1 > $f; done # python3 >>> from socket import * >>> from scapy.all import * >>> >>> SRC_ADDR = DST_ADDR = "fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3456" >>> >>> pkt = IPv6(src=SRC_ADDR, dst=DST_ADDR) >>> pkt /= IPv6ExtHdrSegmentRouting(type=4, addresses=["11::", "22::"], segleft=1) >>> >>> sk = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW) >>> sk.sendto(bytes(pkt), (DST_ADDR, 0)) For such a packet, we call ip6_route_input() to look up a route for the next destination in these three functions depending on the header type. * ipv6_rthdr_rcv() * ipv6_rpl_srh_rcv() * ipv6_srh_rcv() If no route is found, ip6_null_entry is set to skb, and the following dst_input(skb) calls ip6_pkt_drop(). Finally, in icmp6_dev(), we dereference skb_rt6_info(skb)->rt6i_idev->dev as the input device is the loopback interface. Then, we have to check if skb_rt6_info(skb)->rt6i_idev is NULL or not to avoid NULL pointer deref for ip6_null_entry. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 PID: 157 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.4.0-11996-gb121d614371c #35 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:icmp6_send (net/ipv6/icmp.c:436 net/ipv6/icmp.c:503) Code: fe ff ff 48 c7 40 30 c0 86 5d 83 e8 c6 44 1c 00 e9 c8 fc ff ff 49 8b 46 58 48 83 e0 fe 0f 84 4a fb ff ff 48 8b 80 d0 00 00 00 <48> 8b 00 44 8b 88 e0 00 00 00 e9 34 fb ff ff 4d 85 ed 0f 85 69 01 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000003c70 EFLAGS: 00000286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00000000000000e0 RDX: 0000000000000021 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888006d72a18 RBP: ffffc90000003d80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffc90000003d98 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff888006d72a10 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880057fb800 R15: ffffffff835d86c0 FS: 00007f9dc72ee740(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000057b2000 CR4: 00000000007506f0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ip6_pkt_drop (net/ipv6/route.c:4513) ipv6_rthdr_rcv (net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:640 net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:686) ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:437 (discriminator 5)) ip6_input_finish (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:781 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:483) __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:5455) process_backlog (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:781 net/core/dev.c:5895) __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6460) net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:6529 net/core/dev.c:6660) __do_softirq (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/irq.h:142 kernel/softirq.c:554) do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:454 kernel/softirq.c:441) __local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:381) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4231) ip6_finish_output2 (./include/net/neighbour.h:544 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:135) rawv6_sendmsg (./include/net/dst.h:458 ./include/linux/netfilter.h:303 net/ipv6/raw.c:656 net/ipv6/raw.c:914) sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:725 net/socket.c:748) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2134) __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2146 net/socket.c:2142 net/socket.c:2142) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) RIP: 0033:0x7f9dc751baea Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 7e c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 48 83 ec 30 44 89 RSP: 002b:00007ffe98712c38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe98712cf8 RCX: 00007f9dc751baea RDX: 0000000000000060 RSI: 00007f9dc6460b90 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007f9dc56e8be0 R08: 00007ffe98712d70 R09: 000000000000001c R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffffffc4653600 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00007f9dc6af5d1b Modules linked in: CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- RIP: 0010:icmp6_send (net/ipv6/icmp.c:436 net/ipv6/icmp.c:503) Code: fe ff ff 48 c7 40 30 c0 86 5d 83 e8 c6 44 1c 00 e9 c8 fc ff ff 49 8b 46 58 48 83 e0 fe 0f 84 4a fb ff ff 48 8b 80 d0 00 00 00 <48> 8b 00 44 8b 88 e0 00 00 00 e9 34 fb ff ff 4d 85 ed 0f 85 69 01 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000003c70 EFLAGS: 00000286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00000000000000e0 RDX: 0000000000000021 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888006d72a18 RBP: ffffc90000003d80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffc90000003d98 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff888006d72a10 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880057fb800 R15: ffffffff835d86c0 FS: 00007f9dc72ee740(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000057b2000 CR4: 00000000007506f0 PKRU: 55555554 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Kernel Offset: disabled Fixes: 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on device with address") Reported-by: Wang Yufen Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/c41403a9-c2f6-3b7e-0c96-e1901e605cd0@huawei.com/ Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

icmp: Fix data-races around sysctl_icmp_echo_enable_probe.

2022-07-13T11:56:49+00:00

While reading sysctl_icmp_echo_enable_probe, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers. Fixes: d329ea5bd884 ("icmp: add response to RFC 8335 PROBE messages") Fixes: 1fd07f33c3ea ("ipv6: ICMPV6: add response to ICMPV6 RFC 8335 PROBE messages") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: icmp: introduce function icmpv6_param_prob_reason()

2022-04-13T12:09:57+00:00

In order to add the skb drop reasons support to icmpv6_param_prob(), introduce the function icmpv6_param_prob_reason() and make icmpv6_param_prob() an inline call to it. This new function will be used in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao Reviewed-by: Hao Peng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller