Re: [PATCH 0/4] Prevent UDP tunnels from operating on garbage socket

[Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:51 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 19:43:11 -0700
>
>> To be honest, requiring an additional socket to transmit UDP
>> encapsulation seems really convoluted to me, especially considering
>> that this is just trying trying to solve AF_PACKET in nf which seems
>> like a narrow use case.  Is there no way to test for AF_PACKET sockets
>> and take action at a lower function?  Does every type encapsulation
>> need its own UDP socket, or can you just have one which set from the
>> udp_tunnel when family of skb->sk is AF_PACKET?
>
> This has nothing to do with netfilter.
>
> This has everything to do with being able to pass a socket down
> through the complete ipv4/ipv6 output path.  That's the only
> reason netfilter needed to be touched.
>
> The ipv4/ipv6 output call paths have the NF hooks in the middle, and
> the NF hooks determine what the call signature is for the rest of the
> output path.  That's why it needed to be adjusted.
>
> For ipv6 fragmentation, in particular, having the right ipv4/ipv6
> socket is going to be important.
>
> AF_PACKET is not an isolated case, just the most likely example.  It's
> just as easy to trigger this problem for other protocol families too.
> You can send appletalk packets over VXLAN.
>
> I don't see what is convoluted about using the correct socket for
> sending L3 protocol frames.  That's in fact how it's _supposed_ to
> work.  And consistently having a proper matching socket available
> makes it so that, long-term, we'll never have to deal with this issue
> ever again.

I guess this is where I'm confused. We can send just about anything
over GRE also, but have never needed a transmit socket for that. Is
UDP encapsulation so different, or is GRE equally broken also? Also,
will we need to add the socket to FOU and GUE then?

Thanks,
Tom