net: Avoid receiving packets with an l3mdev on unbound UDP sockets

Packets arriving in a VRF currently are delivered to UDP sockets that
aren't bound to any interface. TCP defaults to not delivering packets
arriving in a VRF to unbound sockets. IP route lookup and socket
transmit both assume that unbound means using the default table and
UDP applications that haven't been changed to be aware of VRFs may not
function correctly in this case since they may not be able to handle
overlapping IP address ranges, or be able to send packets back to the
original sender if required.

So add a sysctl, udp_l3mdev_accept, to control this behaviour with it
being analgous to the existing tcp_l3mdev_accept, namely to allow a
process to have a VRF-global listen socket. Have this default to off
as this is the behaviour that users will expect, given that there is
no explicit mechanism to set unmodified VRF-unaware application into a
default VRF.

Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 17f2e7791042..fc73eeb7b3b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -721,6 +721,13 @@ tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
 
 UDP variables:
 
+udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
+	Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
+	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
+	being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
+	originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
+	CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
+
 udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
 	Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.