Re: [PATCH net v2] xfrm: Clear sk_dst_cache when applying per-socket policy.

[Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 09:52:27AM -0700, Jonathan Basseri wrote:
> If a socket has a valid dst cache, then xfrm_lookup_route will get
> skipped. However, the cache is not invalidated when applying policy to a
> socket (i.e. IPV6_XFRM_POLICY). The result is that new policies are
> sometimes ignored on those sockets. (Note: This was broken for IPv4 and
> IPv6 at different times.)
> 
> This can be demonstrated like so,
> 1. Create UDP socket.
> 2. connect() the socket.
> 3. Apply an outbound XFRM policy to the socket. (setsockopt)
> 4. send() data on the socket.
> 
> Packets will continue to be sent in the clear instead of matching an
> xfrm or returning a no-match error (EAGAIN). This affects calls to
> send() and not sendto().
> 
> Invalidating the sk_dst_cache is necessary to correctly apply xfrm
> policies. Since we do this in xfrm_user_policy(), the sk_lock was
> already acquired in either do_ip_setsockopt() or do_ipv6_setsockopt(),
> and we may call __sk_dst_reset().
> 
> Performance impact should be negligible, since this code is only called
> when changing xfrm policy, and only affects the socket in question.
> 
> Fixes: 00bc0ef5880d ("ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid")
> Tested: https://android-review.googlesource.com/517555
> Tested: https://android-review.googlesource.com/418659
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Basseri <misterikkit@google.com>

Applied, thanks for your work Jonathan!