[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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
josf · Oct 10, 2007 · 1e5dc14 · 1e5dc14
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diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -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;