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* [PATCH net] ipv4: icmp: fill flow parameters in icmp_route_lookup decoy lookup
@ 2026-07-16  2:10 Eric Dumazet
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From: Eric Dumazet @ 2026-07-16  2:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S . Miller, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni
  Cc: Simon Horman, Ido Schimmel, David Ahern, netdev, eric.dumazet,
	Eric Dumazet, Muhammad Ziad

When Linux forwards a packet and needs to generate an ICMP error,
icmp_route_lookup() performs a reverse-path relookup. For non-local
destinations, it performs a decoy lookup via ip_route_output_key() to
find the expected egress interface (rt2->dst.dev) before validating the
path with ip_route_input().

Currently, the decoy flow structure (fl4_2) only sets .daddr = fl4_dec.saddr,
leaving .saddr, .flowi4_dscp, .flowi4_proto, .flowi4_mark, and
.flowi4_uid zeroed out.

When policy routing rules (such as ip rule add from $SRC lookup 100, or
dscp/fwmark/ipproto rules) are configured:
1. ip_route_output_key() fails to match the policy rule because saddr and
   other key flow selectors are missing in fl4_2.
2. It resolves a route using the default table instead, returning an incorrect
   egress netdev.
3. Passing the wrong netdev to ip_route_input() causes strict reverse-path
   filtering (rp_filter=1) to fail, logging false-positive "martian source"
   warnings and causing the relookup to fail.

Fix this by populating fl4_2 with .saddr = fl4_dec.daddr, .flowi4_dscp,
.flowi4_proto = IPPROTO_ICMP, .flowi4_mark, and .flowi4_uid so that
ip_route_output_key() selects the correct egress interface matching policy
routing rules.

Fixes: 415b3334a21a ("icmp: Fix regression in nexthop resolution during replies.")
Reported-by: Muhammad Ziad <muhzi100@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAOAwikA60AYKdFr_UDLyja3oU4hqyAE7uFZWqum5uRdaQsgRYg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/icmp.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
index 23e921d313b36b00d8ae5e14846527220c9db32b..2259f643cb0d43ea54819dd831c79807413e0d69 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
@@ -548,10 +548,16 @@ static struct rtable *icmp_route_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi4 *fl4,
 		if (IS_ERR(rt2))
 			err = PTR_ERR(rt2);
 	} else {
-		struct flowi4 fl4_2 = {};
+		struct flowi4 fl4_2 = {
+			.daddr = fl4_dec.saddr,
+			.saddr = fl4_dec.daddr,
+			.flowi4_dscp = dscp,
+			.flowi4_proto = IPPROTO_ICMP,
+			.flowi4_mark = mark,
+			.flowi4_uid = sock_net_uid(net, NULL),
+		};
 		unsigned long orefdst;
 
-		fl4_2.daddr = fl4_dec.saddr;
 		rt2 = ip_route_output_key(net, &fl4_2);
 		if (IS_ERR(rt2)) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(rt2);
-- 
2.55.0.141.g00534a21ce-goog


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