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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	 David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: ipv4: do not send ICMP Redirect when peer allocation fails
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:06:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260723120654.577578-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)

When inet_getpeer_v4() fails to allocate a peer entry under memory pressure
or tree size caps, ip_rt_send_redirect() previously fell back to sending an
un-rate-limited ICMP Redirect.

Because ICMP Redirect is not part of the global rate limit mask (sysctl_icmp_ratemask),
sending ICMP Redirects when peer == NULL creates an un-rate-limited ICMP packet storm.

Fix this by failing closed in ip_rt_send_redirect() when peer == NULL.

Fixes: a853c609504e ("inetpeer: do not get a refcount in inet_getpeer()")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/route.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 3f3de5164d6e5854cae3ebe6fcecbac10fb63418..152d8cb28f65aacee378521e16885c9cf1a4870e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -892,8 +892,6 @@ void ip_rt_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	peer = inet_getpeer_v4(net->ipv4.peers, ip_hdr(skb)->saddr, vif);
 	if (!peer) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
-		icmp_send(skb, ICMP_REDIRECT, ICMP_REDIR_HOST,
-			  rt_nexthop(rt, ip_hdr(skb)->daddr));
 		return;
 	}
 
-- 
2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-23 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-23 12:06 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-07-23 12:43 ` [PATCH net] net: ipv4: do not send ICMP Redirect when peer allocation fails Eric Dumazet

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