From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [WireGuard] [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:48:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0214eaf8-70c6-5a37-cddd-faa1c4268871@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7779da88-08dc-0adb-42dd-8e00502693df@stressinduktion.org>
On 11/14/16 10:33 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>>>>> I just also quickly read up on the history (sorry was travelling last
>>>>> week) and wonder if you ever saw a user space facing bug or if this is
>>>>> basically some difference you saw while writing out of tree code?
>>>>
>>>> I checked the userspace API this morning. bind and cmsg for example check that the address is valid with calls to ipv6_chk_addr.
>>>
>>> Hmm, so it fixes no real bug.
>>>
>>> Because of translations of flowi6_oif we actually can't do a correct
>>> check of source address for cases like the one I outlined above? Hmm,
>>> maybe we should simply depend on user space checks.
>>
>> I believe Jason's case is forwarding path and the ipv6_stub->ipv6_dst_lookup API.
>
> It is not a kernel API, because we don't support something like that for
> external kernel modules. We basically exported ipv6_dst_lookup to allow
> some IPv4 code to do ipv6 stunts when the IPv6 module is loaded. ;)
???
ipv6_stub is exported for modules (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ipv6_stub)).
ipv6_stub->ipv6_dst_lookup is used by several modules -- geneve, tipc, vxlan, mpls -- for IPv6 lookups, not IPv4 code do IPv6 stunts.
So how do you say that is not an exported kernel API?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-14 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-11 19:29 [WireGuard] Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-11 22:14 ` David Ahern
2016-11-12 2:18 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-12 15:40 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-12 18:14 ` David Ahern
2016-11-12 19:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-13 0:43 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-13 0:51 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-11-13 1:00 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-13 13:23 ` [WireGuard] [PATCH] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-13 16:30 ` David Ahern
2016-11-13 19:02 ` [WireGuard] [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-13 20:45 ` David Ahern
2016-11-13 23:28 ` [WireGuard] [PATCH v3] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-14 1:36 ` [WireGuard] Debugging AllowedIps John Huttley
2016-11-14 1:39 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-14 2:28 ` John Huttley
2016-11-14 2:59 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-14 3:10 ` John Huttley
2016-11-14 16:19 ` [WireGuard] [PATCH v3] ip6_output: ensure flow saddr actually belongs to device David Ahern
[not found] ` <CAHmME9p6-mLSs84AwwfRXe8U3Z2sy6Dp9W9H0gKh0rcZuQAfZA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAHmME9qC4xqGOwJnauXrJBDkAtmmuJ+kJKL6ufuU9_XWKNFdSA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-14 16:54 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-14 16:44 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-11-14 16:55 ` David Ahern
2016-11-14 17:04 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-11-14 17:17 ` David Ahern
2016-11-14 17:33 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-11-14 17:48 ` David Ahern [this message]
2016-11-14 18:33 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-11-15 0:45 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-15 14:45 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-11-15 15:26 ` David Ahern
2016-11-13 20:19 ` [WireGuard] [PATCH] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-11-13 20:39 ` David Ahern
2016-11-13 0:51 ` [WireGuard] Source address fib invalidation on IPv6 Jason A. Donenfeld
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