Commit 1e5dc146 authored Aug 24, 2007 by Masahide NAKAMURA Committed by David S. Miller Oct 10, 2007

[IPV6] IPSEC: Omit redirect for tunnelled packet.



IPv6 IPsec tunnel gateway incorrectly sends redirect to
router or sender when network device the IPsec tunnelled packet
is arrived is the same as the one the decapsulated packet
is sent.

With this patch, it omits to send the redirect when the forwarding
skbuff carries secpath, since such skbuff should be assumed as
a decapsulated packet from IPsec tunnel by own.

It may be a rare case for an IPsec security gateway, however
it is not rare when the gateway is MIPv6 Home Agent since
the another tunnel end-point is Mobile Node and it changes
the attached network.

Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent a47ed4cd

net/ipv6/ip6_output.c

+3 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -441,8 +441,10 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb)

		/* IPv6 specs say nothing about it, but it is clear that we cannot
		send redirects to source routed frames.
		We don't send redirects to frames decapsulated from IPsec.
		*/
		if (skb->dev == dst->dev && dst->neighbour && opt->srcrt == 0) {
		if (skb->dev == dst->dev && dst->neighbour && opt->srcrt == 0 &&
		!skb->sp) {
		struct in6_addr *target = NULL;
		struct rt6_info *rt;
		struct neighbour *n = dst->neighbour;

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