netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/4] ipv4: Fix accidental RTO_ONLINK flags passed to ip_route_output_key

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Date:   Sun, 9 Jan 2022 16:23:22 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, wenxu <wenxu@...oud.cn>,
        Varun Prakash <varun@...lsio.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...dia.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/4] ipv4: Fix accidental RTO_ONLINK flags passed to
 ip_route_output_key_hash()

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 20:56:16 +0100 Guillaume Nault wrote:
> The IPv4 stack generally uses the last bit of ->flowi4_tos as a flag
> indicating link scope for route lookups (RTO_ONLINK). Therefore, we
> have to be careful when copying a TOS value to ->flowi4_tos. In
> particular, the ->tos field of IPv4 packets may have this bit set
> because of ECN. Also tunnel keys generally accept any user value for
> the tos.
> 
> This series fixes several places where ->flowi4_tos was set from
> non-sanitised values and the flowi4 structure was later used by
> ip_route_output_key_hash().
> 
> Note that the IPv4 stack usually clears the RTO_ONLINK bit using
> RT_TOS(). However this macro is based on an obsolete interpretation of
> the old IPv4 TOS field (RFC 1349) and clears the three high order bits.
> Since we don't need to clear these bits and since it doesn't make sense
> to clear only one of the ECN bits, this patch series uses INET_ECN_MASK
> instead.
> 
> All patches were compile tested only.

Does not apply cleanly to net any more, could you respin?