ipv4/icmp: redirect messages can use the ingress daddr as source

This patch allows configuring how the source address of ICMP
redirect messages is selected; by default the old behaviour is
retained, while setting icmp_redirects_use_orig_daddr force the
usage of the destination address of the packet that caused the
redirect.

The new behaviour fits closely the RFC 5798 section 8.1.1, and fix the
following scenario:

Two machines are set up with VRRP to act as routers out of a subnet,
they have IPs x.x.x.1/24 and x.x.x.2/24, with VRRP holding on to
x.x.x.254/24.

If a host in said subnet needs to get an ICMP redirect from the VRRP
router, i.e. to reach a destination behind a different gateway, the
source IP in the ICMP redirect is chosen as the primary IP on the
interface that the packet arrived at, i.e. x.x.x.1 or x.x.x.2.

The host will then ignore said redirect, due to RFC 1122 section 3.2.2.2,
and will continue to use the wrong next-op.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index ebe94f2..9983825 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -884,8 +884,8 @@ icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
 
 icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
 
-	If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
-	the exiting interface.
+	If zero, icmp error messages except redirects are sent with the primary
+	address of the exiting interface.
 
 	If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
 	the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
@@ -897,8 +897,23 @@ icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
 	then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
 	has one will be used regardless of this setting.
 
+	The source address selection of icmp redirect messages is controlled by
+	icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr.
 	Default: 0
 
+icmp_redirects_use_orig_daddr - BOOLEAN
+
+	If zero, icmp redirect messages are sent using the address specified for
+	other icmp errors by icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr.
+
+	If non-zero, the message will be sent with the destination address of
+	the packet that caused the icmp redirect.
+	This behaviour is the preferred one on VRRP routers (see RFC 5798
+	section 8.1.1).
+
+	Default: 0
+
+
 igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
 	Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
 	Default: 20