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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2021-03-17 09:55:15 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-03-18 11:19:23 -0700 |
| commit | dcc32f4f183ab8479041b23a1525d48233df1d43 (patch) | |
| tree | 53cd4721d6c7da526af03fd11c15d17d0271636c /net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | |
| parent | e65eaded4cc4de6bf153def9dde6b25392d9a236 (diff) | |
ipv6: weaken the v4mapped source check
This reverts commit 6af1799aaf3f1bc8defedddfa00df3192445bbf3.
Commit 6af1799aaf3f ("ipv6: drop incoming packets having a v4mapped
source address") introduced an input check against v4mapped addresses.
Use of such addresses on the wire is indeed questionable and not
allowed on public Internet. As the commit pointed out
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-02
lists potential issues.
Unfortunately there are applications which use v4mapped addresses,
and breaking them is a clear regression. For example v4mapped
addresses (or any semi-valid addresses, really) may be used
for uni-direction event streams or packet export.
Since the issue which sparked the addition of the check was with
TCP and request_socks in particular push the check down to TCPv6
and DCCP. This restores the ability to receive UDPv6 packets with
v4mapped address as the source.
Keep using the IPSTATS_MIB_INHDRERRORS statistic to minimize the
user-visible changes.
Fixes: 6af1799aaf3f ("ipv6: drop incoming packets having a v4mapped source address")
Reported-by: Sunyi Shao <sunyishao@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ip6_input.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c index e9d2a4a409aa..80256717868e 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c @@ -245,16 +245,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *ip6_rcv_core(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, if (ipv6_addr_is_multicast(&hdr->saddr)) goto err; - /* While RFC4291 is not explicit about v4mapped addresses - * in IPv6 headers, it seems clear linux dual-stack - * model can not deal properly with these. - * Security models could be fooled by ::ffff:127.0.0.1 for example. - * - * https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-02 - */ - if (ipv6_addr_v4mapped(&hdr->saddr)) - goto err; - skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + sizeof(*hdr); IP6CB(skb)->nhoff = offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, nexthdr); |