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Re: [PATCH 2.6]: Check against correct policy list in ip_forward/ip6_for

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6]: Check against correct policy list in ip_forward/ip6_forward
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:26:51 +0200
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, ipsec-tools-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Herbert Xu wrote:

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 05:48:11PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:


currently forwarded packets from a tunnel mode SA are checked
in ip_forward/ip6_forward against the XFRM_POLICY_FWD policy
list. Neither racoon nor pluto generate a policy for
IPSEC_DIR_FWD, so the checks are performed against an empty



Actually I made damn sure that pluto does generate rules for
IPSEC_DIR_FWD after discussing it with Alexey :) Search for
XFRM_POLICY_FWD in openswan/programs/pluto.


Thanks, I didn't know pluto uses the xfrm_user interface, so
I only looked for pfkey symbolic names. So it seems only racoon
needs to be fixed. I think we should apply the attached patch
to make xfrm_policy_check reject packets decapsulated by IPsec
without a policy for this direction, so people will notice
something is wrong. It also prevents skipping checks against the
socket policy if there is an empty policy list .. or am I missing
something ?

Regards
Patrick

# This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
#
# ChangeSet
#   2004/10/18 00:09:08+02:00 kaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
#   [XFRM]: Fix invalid optimization in xfrm_policy_check
#   
#   By skipping policy checks when the policy list is empty we
#   allow packets decapsulated by IPsec without a policy and
#   miss checking against socket policies.
#   
#   Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
# 
# include/net/xfrm.h
#   2004/10/18 00:08:14+02:00 kaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx +1 -1
#   [XFRM]: Fix invalid optimization in xfrm_policy_check
#   
#   By skipping policy checks when the policy list is empty we
#   allow packets decapsulated by IPsec without a policy and
#   miss checking against socket policies.
#   
#   Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
# 
diff -Nru a/include/net/xfrm.h b/include/net/xfrm.h
--- a/include/net/xfrm.h        2004-10-18 00:15:18 +02:00
+++ b/include/net/xfrm.h        2004-10-18 00:15:18 +02:00
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@
        if (sk && sk->sk_policy[XFRM_POLICY_IN])
                return __xfrm_policy_check(sk, dir, skb, family);
                
-       return  !xfrm_policy_list[dir] ||
+       return  ((!sk || !sk->sk_policy[dir]) && !xfrm_policy_list[dir] && 
!skb->sp) ||
                (skb->dst->flags & DST_NOPOLICY) ||
                __xfrm_policy_check(sk, dir, skb, family);
 }
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