[PATCH 6.18 013/122] ipv6: use the right ifindex when replying to icmpv6 from localhost

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-04T15:28:38Z

From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>

[ Upstream commit 03cbcdf93866e61beb0063392e6dbb701f03aea2 ]

When replying to a ICMPv6 echo request that comes from localhost address
the right output ifindex is 1 (lo) and not rt6i_idev dev index. Use the
skb device ifindex instead. This fixes pinging to a local address from
localhost source address.

$ ping6 -I ::1 2001:1:1::2 -c 3
PING 2001:1:1::2 (2001:1:1::2) from ::1 : 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:1:1::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
64 bytes from 2001:1:1::2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms
64 bytes from 2001:1:1::2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms

2001:1:1::2 ping statistics
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2032ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.076/0.122/0.035 ms

Fixes: 1b70d792cf67 ("ipv6: Use rt6i_idev index for echo replies to a local address")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121194409.6749-1-fmancera@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv6/icmp.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/icmp.c b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
index 56c974cf75d15..cf6455cbe2cc9 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
@@ -769,7 +769,9 @@ static enum skb_drop_reason icmpv6_echo_reply(struct sk_buff *skb)
fl6.daddr = ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr;
if (saddr)
fl6.saddr = *saddr;
- fl6.flowi6_oif = icmp6_iif(skb);
+ fl6.flowi6_oif = ipv6_addr_loopback(&fl6.daddr) ?
+ skb->dev->ifindex :
+ icmp6_iif(skb);
fl6.fl6_icmp_type = type;
fl6.flowi6_mark = mark;
fl6.flowi6_uid = sock_net_uid(net, NULL);
--
2.51.0