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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: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:29:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260724072901.1633601-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)

When inet_getpeer_v4() or inet_getpeer_v6() fails to allocate a peer entry
under memory pressure or tree size caps, redirect handlers previously fell
back to sending un-rate-limited ICMP/NDISC Redirect messages.

In IPv4, ip_rt_send_redirect() called icmp_send() directly when peer == NULL.
In IPv6, ip6_forward() and ndisc_send_redirect() passed a NULL peer into
inet_peer_xrlim_allow(), which returned true when peer == NULL.

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

Fix this by failing closed in ip_rt_send_redirect(), ip6_forward(), and
ndisc_send_redirect() when peer is NULL.

Fixes: 92d868292634 ("inetpeer: Move ICMP rate limiting state into inet_peer entries.")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/route.c      | 2 --
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +-
 net/ipv6/ndisc.c      | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 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;
 	}
 
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 368e4fa3b43ca2a96f53fa4f3bc14fd6832c346f..2c44e5ed617167ce060c265052cd40449fdab69f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		/* Limit redirects both by destination (here)
 		   and by source (inside ndisc_send_redirect)
 		 */
-		if (inet_peer_xrlim_allow(peer, 1*HZ))
+		if (peer && inet_peer_xrlim_allow(peer, 1*HZ))
 			ndisc_send_redirect(skb, target);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 	} else {
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index f867ec8d3d90510c1ed92012c3b34ab8b49c9ac7..fe36b3f512850369e138b6a99ae7a9391494c2f1 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -1707,6 +1707,8 @@ void ndisc_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct in6_addr *target)
 	}
 
 	peer = inet_getpeer_v6(net->ipv6.peers, &ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr);
+	if (!peer)
+		goto release;
 	ret = inet_peer_xrlim_allow(peer, 1*HZ);
 
 	if (!ret)
-- 
2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-24  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-24  7:29 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-07-24 13:42 ` [PATCH net] net: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails Jakub Kicinski
2026-07-24 14:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2026-07-24 14:20     ` Jakub Kicinski

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