kernel/include/linux/ipv6.h, branch linux-5.10.y

Revert "ipv6: save dontfrag in cork"

2025-07-17T16:27:44Z

This reverts commit 29533d1a54b8de5aaf8c4aa6790dc67d5c14fba5 which is commit a18dfa9925b9ef6107ea3aa5814ca3c704d34a8a upstream. A regression was introduced when backporting this to the stable kernels without applying previous commits in this series. When sending IPv6 UDP packets larger than MTU, EMSGSIZE was returned instead of fragmenting the packets as expected. As there is no compelling reason for this commit to be present in the stable kernels it should be reverted. Signed-off-by: Brett A C Sheffield Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: save dontfrag in cork

2025-06-04T12:37:01Z

[ Upstream commit a18dfa9925b9ef6107ea3aa5814ca3c704d34a8a ] When spanning datagram construction over multiple send calls using MSG_MORE, per datagram settings are configured on the first send. That is when ip(6)_setup_cork stores these settings for subsequent use in __ip(6)_append_data and others. The only flag that escaped this was dontfrag. As a result, a datagram could be constructed with df=0 on the first sendmsg, but df=1 on a next. Which is what cmsg_ip.sh does in an upcoming MSG_MORE test in the "diff" scenario. Changing datagram conditions in the middle of constructing an skb makes this already complex code path even more convoluted. It is here unintentional. Bring this flag in line with expected sockopt/cmsg behavior. And stop passing ipc6 to __ip6_append_data, to avoid such issues in the future. This is already the case for __ip_append_data. inet6_cork had a 6 byte hole, so the 1B flag has no impact. Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307033620.411611-3-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: change accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to affect all RA lifetimes

2023-10-25T09:54:14Z

commit 5027d54a9c30bc7ec808360378e2b4753f053f25 upstream. accept_ra_min_rtr_lft only considered the lifetime of the default route and discarded entire RAs accordingly. This change renames accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to accept_ra_min_lft, and applies the value to individual RA sections; in particular, router lifetime, PIO preferred lifetime, and RIO lifetime. If any of those lifetimes are lower than the configured value, the specific RA section is ignored. In order for the sysctl to be useful to Android, it should really apply to all lifetimes in the RA, since that is what determines the minimum frequency at which RAs must be processed by the kernel. Android uses hardware offloads to drop RAs for a fraction of the minimum of all lifetimes present in the RA (some networks have very frequent RAs (5s) with high lifetimes (2h)). Despite this, we have encountered networks that set the router lifetime to 30s which results in very frequent CPU wakeups. Instead of disabling IPv6 (and dropping IPv6 ethertype in the WiFi firmware) entirely on such networks, it seems better to ignore the misconfigured routers while still processing RAs from other IPv6 routers on the same network (i.e. to support IoT applications). The previous implementation dropped the entire RA based on router lifetime. This turned out to be hard to expand to the other lifetimes present in the RA in a consistent manner; dropping the entire RA based on RIO/PIO lifetimes would essentially require parsing the whole thing twice. Fixes: 1671bcfd76fd ("net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft") Cc: Lorenzo Colitti Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726230701.919212-1-prohr@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft

2023-10-25T09:54:14Z

commit 1671bcfd76fdc0b9e65153cf759153083755fe4c upstream. This change adds a new sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to specify the minimum acceptable router lifetime in an RA. If the received RA router lifetime is less than the configured value (and not 0), the RA is ignored. This is useful for mobile devices, whose battery life can be impacted by networks that configure RAs with a short lifetime. On such networks, the device should never gain IPv6 provisioning and should attempt to drop RAs via hardware offload, if available. Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski Cc: Lorenzo Colitti Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: make mc_forwarding atomic

2022-04-13T19:00:56Z

[ Upstream commit 145c7a793838add5e004e7d49a67654dc7eba147 ] This fixes minor data-races in ip6_mc_input() and batadv_mcast_mla_rtr_flags_softif_get_ipv6() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: icmp: pass zeroed opts from icmp{,v6}_ndo_send before sending

2021-03-04T10:38:46Z

commit ee576c47db60432c37e54b1e2b43a8ca6d3a8dca upstream. The icmp{,v6}_send functions make all sorts of use of skb->cb, casting it with IPCB or IP6CB, assuming the skb to have come directly from the inet layer. But when the packet comes from the ndo layer, especially when forwarded, there's no telling what might be in skb->cb at that point. As a result, the icmp sending code risks reading bogus memory contents, which can result in nasty stack overflows such as this one reported by a user: panic+0x108/0x2ea __stack_chk_fail+0x14/0x20 __icmp_send+0x5bd/0x5c0 icmp_ndo_send+0x148/0x160 In icmp_send, skb->cb is cast with IPCB and an ip_options struct is read from it. The optlen parameter there is of particular note, as it can induce writes beyond bounds. There are quite a few ways that can happen in __ip_options_echo. For example: // sptr/skb are attacker-controlled skb bytes sptr = skb_network_header(skb); // dptr/dopt points to stack memory allocated by __icmp_send dptr = dopt->__data; // sopt is the corrupt skb->cb in question if (sopt->rr) { optlen = sptr[sopt->rr+1]; // corrupt skb->cb + skb->data soffset = sptr[sopt->rr+2]; // corrupt skb->cb + skb->data // this now writes potentially attacker-controlled data, over // flowing the stack: memcpy(dptr, sptr+sopt->rr, optlen); } In the icmpv6_send case, the story is similar, but not as dire, as only IP6CB(skb)->iif and IP6CB(skb)->dsthao are used. The dsthao case is worse than the iif case, but it is passed to ipv6_find_tlv, which does a bit of bounds checking on the value. This is easy to simulate by doing a `memset(skb->cb, 0x41, sizeof(skb->cb));` before calling icmp{,v6}_ndo_send, and it's only by good fortune and the rarity of icmp sending from that context that we've avoided reports like this until now. For example, in KASAN: BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __ip_options_echo+0xa0e/0x12b0 Write of size 38 at addr ffff888006f1f80e by task ping/89 CPU: 2 PID: 89 Comm: ping Not tainted 5.10.0-rc7-debug+ #5 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x9a/0xcc print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1a/0x160 __kasan_report.cold+0x20/0x38 kasan_report+0x32/0x40 check_memory_region+0x145/0x1a0 memcpy+0x39/0x60 __ip_options_echo+0xa0e/0x12b0 __icmp_send+0x744/0x1700 Actually, out of the 4 drivers that do this, only gtp zeroed the cb for the v4 case, while the rest did not. So this commit actually removes the gtp-specific zeroing, while putting the code where it belongs in the shared infrastructure of icmp{,v6}_ndo_send. This commit fixes the issue by passing an empty IPCB or IP6CB along to the functions that actually do the work. For the icmp_send, this was already trivial, thanks to __icmp_send providing the plumbing function. For icmpv6_send, this required a tiny bit of refactoring to make it behave like the v4 case, after which it was straight forward. Fixes: a2b78e9b2cac ("sunvnet: generate ICMP PTMUD messages for smaller port MTUs") Reported-by: SinYu Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAF=yD-LOF116aHub6RMe8vB8ZpnrrnoTdqhobEx+bvoA8AsP0w@mail.gmail.com/T/ Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223131858.72082-1-Jason@zx2c4.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: ipv6: remove unused arg exact_dif in compute_score

2020-08-31T20:08:10Z

The arg exact_dif is not used anymore, remove it. inet6_exact_dif_match() is no longer needed after the above is removed, remove it too. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: remove inet_sk_copy_descendant()

2020-08-26T14:33:19Z

This is no longer used, SCTP now uses a private helper. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

icmp6: support rfc 4884

2020-07-25T00:12:41Z

Extend the rfc 4884 read interface introduced for ipv4 in commit eba75c587e81 ("icmp: support rfc 4884") to ipv6. Add socket option SOL_IPV6/IPV6_RECVERR_RFC4884. Changes v1->v2: - make ipv6_icmp_error_rfc4884 static (file scope) Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv6: drop duplicate word in comment

2020-07-16T03:34:11Z

Drop the doubled word "by" in a comment. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski