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Commit e6175a2e authored by Eyal Birger's avatar Eyal Birger Committed by Steffen Klassert
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xfrm: fix "disable_policy" flag use when arriving from different devices

In IPv4 setting the "disable_policy" flag on a device means no policy
should be enforced for traffic originating from the device. This was
implemented by seting the DST_NOPOLICY flag in the dst based on the
originating device.

However, dsts are cached in nexthops regardless of the originating
devices, in which case, the DST_NOPOLICY flag value may be incorrect.

Consider the following setup:

                     +------------------------------+
                     | ROUTER                       |
  +-------------+    | +-----------------+          |
  | ipsec src   |----|-|ipsec0           |          |
  +-------------+    | |disable_policy=0 |   +----+ |
                     | +-----------------+   |eth1|-|-----
  +-------------+    | +-----------------+   +----+ |
  | noipsec src |----|-|eth0             |          |
  +-------------+    | |disable_policy=1 |          |
                     | +-----------------+          |
                     +------------------------------+

Where ROUTER has a default route towards eth1.

dst entries for traffic arriving from eth0 would have DST_NOPOLICY
and would be cached and therefore can be reused by traffic originating
from ipsec0, skipping policy check.

Fix by setting a IPSKB_NOPOLICY flag in IPCB and observing it instead
of the DST in IN/FWD IPv4 policy checks.

Fixes: 1da177e4

 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: default avatarShmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
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