* [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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