From ba05057bd0563d6ffb06d6737b5c5ba949088a6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Maciej=20=C5=BBenczykowski?= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:18:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] net/ipv4: always honour route mtu during forwarding MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [ Upstream commit 02a1b175b0e92d9e0fa5df3957ade8d733ceb6a0 ] Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt:46 says: ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted fragmentation by the router. You only need to enable this if you have user-space software which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the case. Default: 0 (disabled) Possible values: 0 - disabled 1 - enabled Which makes it pretty clear that setting it to 1 is a potential security/safety/DoS issue, and yet it is entirely reasonable to want forwarded traffic to honour explicitly administrator configured route mtus (instead of defaulting to device mtu). Indeed, I can't think of a single reason why you wouldn't want to. Since you configured a route mtu you probably know better... It is pretty common to have a higher device mtu to allow receiving large (jumbo) frames, while having some routes via that interface (potentially including the default route to the internet) specify a lower mtu. Note that ipv6 forwarding uses device mtu unless the route is locked (in which case it will use the route mtu). This approach is not usable for IPv4 where an 'mtu lock' on a route also has the side effect of disabling TCP path mtu discovery via disabling the IPv4 DF (don't frag) bit on all outgoing frames. I'm not aware of a way to lock a route from an IPv6 RA, so that also potentially seems wrong. Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Willem de Bruijn Cc: Lorenzo Colitti Cc: Sunmeet Gill (Sunny) Cc: Vinay Paradkar Cc: Tyler Wear Cc: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/net/ip.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h index 4b15cc1c224c..0278d63c1527 100644 --- a/include/net/ip.h +++ b/include/net/ip.h @@ -439,12 +439,18 @@ static inline unsigned int ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(const struct dst_entry *dst, bool forwarding) { struct net *net = dev_net(dst->dev); + unsigned int mtu; if (net->ipv4.sysctl_ip_fwd_use_pmtu || ip_mtu_locked(dst) || !forwarding) return dst_mtu(dst); + /* 'forwarding = true' case should always honour route mtu */ + mtu = dst_metric_raw(dst, RTAX_MTU); + if (mtu) + return mtu; + return min(READ_ONCE(dst->dev->mtu), IP_MAX_MTU); }