netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 07/14] gtp: Support encapsulation of IPv6 packets

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:53:27 +0800
From:   Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>
To:     Tom Herbert <tom@...ntonium.net>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pablo@...filter.org,
        rohit@...ntonium.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 07/14] gtp: Support encapsulation of IPv6 packets

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:38:57PM -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> Allow IPv6 mobile subscriber packets. This entails adding an IPv6 mobile
> subscriber address to pdp context and IPv6 specific variants to find pdp
> contexts by address.

Please note that there are three different PDP contexts for IP:
* IPv4 only (what gtp.c implements so far)
* IPv6 only
* dual IPv4+IPv6 (called IPv46)

This information will have to be provisioned by the control plane
via netlink for each PDP context.  The kernel module then needs to
make sure that on a v4-only context no IPv6 packets are accepted
and vice-versa.

Your proposed patch is missing this kind of screening function and
I would imagine it could introduce all kinds of security problems :/

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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