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    netfilter: use actual socket sk rather than skb sk when routing harder · 46d6c5ae
    Jason A. Donenfeld authored
    If netfilter changes the packet mark when mangling, the packet is
    rerouted using the route_me_harder set of functions. Prior to this
    commit, there's one big difference between route_me_harder and the
    ordinary initial routing functions, described in the comment above
    __ip_queue_xmit():
    
       /* Note: skb->sk can be different from sk, in case of tunnels */
       int __ip_queue_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl,
    
    That function goes on to correctly make use of sk->sk_bound_dev_if,
    rather than skb->sk->sk_bound_dev_if. And indeed the comment is true: a
    tunnel will receive a packet in ndo_start_xmit with an initial skb->sk.
    It will make some transformations to that packet, and then it will send
    the encapsulated packet out of a *new* socket. That new socket will
    basically always have a different sk_bound_dev_if (otherwise there'd be
    a routing loop). So for the purposes of routing the encapsulated packet,
    the routing information as it pertains to the socket should come from
    that socket's sk, rather than the packet's original skb->sk. For that
    reason __ip_queue_xmit() and related functions all do the right thing.
    
    One might argue that all tunnels should just call skb_orphan(skb) before
    transmitting the encapsulated packet into the new socket. But tunnels do
    *not* do this -- and this is wisely avoided in skb_scrub_packet() too --
    because features like TSQ rely on skb->destructor() being called when
    that buffer space is truely available again. Calling skb_orphan(skb) too
    early would result in buffers filling up unnecessarily and accounting
    info being all wrong. Instead, additional routing must take into account
    the new sk, just as __ip_queue_xmit() notes.
    
    So, this commit addresses the problem by fishing the correct sk out of
    state->sk -- it's already set properly in the call to nf_hook() in
    __ip_local_out(), which receives the sk as part of its normal
    functionality. So we make sure to plumb state->sk through the various
    route_me_harder functions, and then make correct use of it following the
    example of __ip_queue_xmit().
    
    Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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