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authorAlexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>2012-10-12 04:34:17 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-28 10:14:16 -0700
commit259c5a7fd824ebca122f04fc4202b88896f31d26 (patch)
tree1bf6bb73cba3d865aa5964370c1ef47b50299d24 /net/ipv6
parent04c592343f478826bf1e5d0d178bb295d848c428 (diff)
tcp: resets are misrouted
[ Upstream commit 4c67525849e0b7f4bd4fab2487ec9e43ea52ef29 ] After commit e2446eaa ("tcp_v4_send_reset: binding oif to iif in no sock case").. tcp resets are always lost, when routing is asymmetric. Yes, backing out that patch will result in misrouting of resets for dead connections which used interface binding when were alive, but we actually cannot do anything here. What's died that's died and correct handling normal unbound connections is obviously a priority. Comment to comment: > This has few benefits: > 1. tcp_v6_send_reset already did that. It was done to route resets for IPv6 link local addresses. It was a mistake to do so for global addresses. The patch fixes this as well. Actually, the problem appears to be even more serious than guaranteed loss of resets. As reported by Sergey Soloviev <sol@eqv.ru>, those misrouted resets create a lot of arp traffic and huge amount of unresolved arp entires putting down to knees NAT firewalls which use asymmetric routing. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 98256cf72f9d..8a8fa2dd149f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -896,7 +896,8 @@ static void tcp_v6_send_response(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 seq, u32 ack, u32 win,
__tcp_v6_send_check(buff, &fl6.saddr, &fl6.daddr);
fl6.flowi6_proto = IPPROTO_TCP;
- fl6.flowi6_oif = inet6_iif(skb);
+ if (ipv6_addr_type(&fl6.daddr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)
+ fl6.flowi6_oif = inet6_iif(skb);
fl6.fl6_dport = t1->dest;
fl6.fl6_sport = t1->source;
security_skb_classify_flow(skb, flowi6_to_flowi(&fl6));