From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: drop incoming packets having a v4mapped source address
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 09:57:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210305095717.241dbdf4@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191002163855.145178-1-edumazet@google.com>
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 09:38:55 -0700 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> This began with a syzbot report. syzkaller was injecting
> IPv6 TCP SYN packets having a v4mapped source address.
>
> After an unsuccessful 4-tuple lookup, TCP creates a request
> socket (SYN_RECV) and calls reqsk_queue_hash_req()
>
> reqsk_queue_hash_req() calls sk_ehashfn(sk)
>
> At this point we have AF_INET6 sockets, and the heuristic
> used by sk_ehashfn() to either hash the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses
> is to use ipv6_addr_v4mapped(&sk->sk_v6_daddr)
>
> For the particular spoofed packet, we end up hashing V4 addresses
> which were not initialized by the TCP IPv6 stack, so KMSAN fired
> a warning.
>
> I first fixed sk_ehashfn() to test both source and destination addresses,
> but then faced various problems, including user-space programs
> like packetdrill that had similar assumptions.
>
> Instead of trying to fix the whole ecosystem, it is better
> to admit that we have a dual stack behavior, and that we
> can not build linux kernels without V4 stack anyway.
>
> The dual stack API automatically forces the traffic to be IPv4
> if v4mapped addresses are used at bind() or connect(), so it makes
> no sense to allow IPv6 traffic to use the same v4mapped class.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
FTR this appears to break an UDP/sFlow application which used to work
fine with mapped addresses. Given the IETF memo perhaps a sysctl would
be appropriate, but even with that we're back to problems in TCP if the
sysctl is flipped :S
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
> index d432d0011c160f41aec09640e95179dd7b364cfc..2bb0b66181a741c7fb73cacbdf34c5160f52d186 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
> @@ -223,6 +223,16 @@ 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);
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-05 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-02 16:38 [PATCH net] ipv6: drop incoming packets having a v4mapped source address Eric Dumazet
2019-10-02 18:38 ` Florian Westphal
2019-10-02 18:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-10-02 21:54 ` Florian Westphal
2019-10-03 15:42 ` David Miller
2021-03-05 17:57 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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