Since commit cb9f1b783850, scapy (which uses an AF_PACKET socket in
SOCK_RAW mode) is unable to send a basic icmp packet over a sit tunnel:
Here is a example of the setup:
$ ip link set ntfp2 up
$ ip addr add 10.125.0.1/24 dev ntfp2
$ ip tunnel add tun1 mode sit ttl 64 local 10.125.0.1 remote 10.125.0.2 dev
ntfp2
$ ip addr add fd00:cafe:cafe::1/128 dev tun1
$ ip link set dev tun1 up
$ ip route add fd00:200::/64 dev tun1
$ scapy
>>> p = []
>>> p += IPv6(src='fd00:100::1', dst='fd00:200::1')/ICMPv6EchoRequest()
>>> send(p, count=1, inter=0.1)
>>> quit()
$ ip -s link ls dev tun1 | grep -A1 "TX.*errors"
TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
0 0 1 0 0 0
The problem is that the network offset is set to the hard_header_len of the
output device (tun1, ie 14 + 20) and in our case, because the packet is
small (48 bytes) the pskb_inet_may_pull() fails (it tries to pull 40 bytes
(ipv6 header) starting from the network offset).
This problem is more generally related to device with variable hard header
length. To avoid a too intrusive patch in the current release, a (ugly)
workaround is proposed in this patch. It has to be cleaned up in net-next.
Link:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=993675a3100b1
Link: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1024489/
Fixes: cb9f1b783850 ("ip: validate header length on virtual device xmit")
CC: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
CC: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxi...@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
reset nh offset only for small packets sent on a variable hard hdr len device
net/packet/af_packet.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index d0945253f43b..3b1a78906bc0 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2887,7 +2887,8 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr
*msg, size_t len)
goto out_free;
} else if (reserve) {
skb_reserve(skb, -reserve);
- if (len < reserve)
+ if (len < reserve + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) &&
+ dev->min_header_len != dev->hard_header_len)
skb_reset_network_header(skb);
}
--
2.18.0
