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: Fix icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr sysctl

ICMP Patrick McHardy 2 participants 2 messages Jun 1, 2007

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It seems like you missed this patch in the previous thread discussing the problem, so here's a resend.

[ICMP]: Fix icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr sysctl

Currently when icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr is set and an ICMP error is sent after the packet passed through ip_output(), an address from the outgoing interface is chosen as ICMP source address since skb->dev doesn't point to the incoming interface anymore.

Fix this by doing an interface lookup on rt->dst.iif and using that device.

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commit f680f41a1c6b2c358a4725e763132b3c61c1685a
tree 81f9cd86744aca6e7c2bc647639f7868d7ceb1d3
parent 19b6cbad06d246d48168fc6c493a7c3d9db58e1f
author Patrick McHardy <[email protected]> Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:22:21 +0200 committer Patrick McHardy <[email protected]> Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:22:21 +0200

 net/ipv4/icmp.c |   15 +++++++++------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
net/ipv4/icmp.c +9 -6
index e238b17..02a899b 100644
@@ -514,12 +514,15 @@ void icmp_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, int type, int code, __be32 info)
 
 	saddr = iph->daddr;
 	if (!(rt->rt_flags & RTCF_LOCAL)) {
-		/* This is broken, skb_in->dev points to the outgoing device
-		 * after the packet passes through ip_output().
-		 */
-		if (skb_in->dev && sysctl_icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr)
-			saddr = inet_select_addr(skb_in->dev, 0, RT_SCOPE_LINK);
-		else
+		struct net_device *dev = NULL;
+
+		if (rt->fl.iif && sysctl_icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr)
+			dev = dev_get_by_index(rt->fl.iif);
+
+		if (dev) {
+			saddr = inet_select_addr(dev, 0, RT_SCOPE_LINK);
+			dev_put(dev);
+		} else
 			saddr = 0;
 	}
 
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From: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:24:18 +0200

Quoted 2 lines

It seems like you missed this patch in the previous thread discussing the problem, so here's a resend.

Thanks for resending, applied, thanks Patrick.