netdev - Re: ICMP redirect issue

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:12:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fbl@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ICMP redirect issue

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:56:54 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:19:52 -0300
> 
>> What about something like below? It will change a bit the
>> secure_redirects documentation.
> 
> The previous check was stronger, and served other purposes.
> 
> Firstly, it required that the spoofer know the exact gateway
> IP address we used previously, whereas your test requires only
> knowing the subnet which is easier to figure out.
> 
> But more importantly, the old test allowed us to ignore outdated
> or erroneous redirects.
> 
> We really have to restore the original behavior before my inetpeer
> changes (enforce that the old gateway matches), and find another way
> to accomodate IPVS.

BTW, I just double-checked RFC1122 and it explicitly specifies the
old_gw check:

[ RFC1122, section 3.2.2.2 ]

 ...

	A Redirect message SHOULD be silently discarded if the new
        gateway address it specifies is not on the same connected
        (sub-) net through which the Redirect arrived [INTRO:2,
        Appendix A], or if the source of the Redirect is not the
        current first-hop gateway for the specified destination (see
        Section 3.3.1).

In fact, it's saying that we should also validate that saddr == old_gw
too.

So really, we need to put the check back and find a way to accomodate IPVS.
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