From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: ip6_fragment() should check CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 23:02:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337374935.7029.60.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Quoting Tore Anderson from :
If the allfrag feature has been set on a host route (due to an ICMPv6
Packet Too Big received indicating a MTU of less than 1280),
TCP SYN/ACK packets to that destination appears to get an incorrect
TCP checksum. This in turn means they are thrown away as invalid.
In the case of an IPv4 client behind a link with a MTU of less than
1260, accessing an IPv6 server through a stateless translator,
this means that the client can only download a single large file
from the server, because once it is in the server's routing cache
with the allfrag feature set, new TCP connections can no longer
be established.
</endquote>
It appears ip6_fragment() doesn't handle CHECKSUM_PARTIAL properly.
As network drivers are not prepared to fetch correct transport header, a
safe fix is to call skb_checksum_help() before fragmenting packet.
Reported-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index a254e4b..3dc633f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -788,6 +788,10 @@ slow_path_clean:
}
slow_path:
+ if ((skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) &&
+ skb_checksum_help(skb))
+ goto fail;
+
left = skb->len - hlen; /* Space per frame */
ptr = hlen; /* Where to start from */
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2012-05-18 21:02 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-05-19 3:54 ` [PATCH net-next] ipv6: ip6_fragment() should check CHECKSUM_PARTIAL David Miller
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