This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ipv4: don't allow setting net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu below 68
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-ipv4-don-t-allow-setting-net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu-below-68.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Mar 8 10:42:32 PST 2018
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:13:43 +0100
Subject: net: ipv4: don't allow setting net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu below 68
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit c7272c2f1229125f74f22dcdd59de9bbd804f1c8 ]
According to RFC 1191 sections 3 and 4, ICMP frag-needed messages
indicating an MTU below 68 should be rejected:
A host MUST never reduce its estimate of the Path MTU below 68
octets.
and (talking about ICMP frag-needed's Next-Hop MTU field):
This field will never contain a value less than 68, since every
router "must be able to forward a datagram of 68 octets without
fragmentation".
Furthermore, by letting net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu be set to negative
values, we can end up with a very large PMTU when (-1) is cast into u32.
Let's also make ip_rt_min_pmtu a u32, since it's only ever compared to
unsigned ints.
Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/route.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -122,9 +122,11 @@ static int ip_rt_redirect_silence __read
static int ip_rt_error_cost __read_mostly = HZ;
static int ip_rt_error_burst __read_mostly = 5 * HZ;
static int ip_rt_mtu_expires __read_mostly = 10 * 60 * HZ;
-static int ip_rt_min_pmtu __read_mostly = 512 + 20 + 20;
+static u32 ip_rt_min_pmtu __read_mostly = 512 + 20 + 20;
static int ip_rt_min_advmss __read_mostly = 256;
+static int ip_min_valid_pmtu __read_mostly = IPV4_MIN_MTU;
+
/*
* Interface to generic destination cache.
*/
@@ -2629,7 +2631,8 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_route_table
.data = &ip_rt_min_pmtu,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &ip_min_valid_pmtu,
},
{
.procname = "min_adv_mss",
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/net-ipv4-don-t-allow-setting-net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu-below-68.patch