ip6_tunnel: disable caching when the traffic class is inherited

If an ip6 tunnel is configured to inherit the traffic class from
the inner header, the dst_cache must be disabled or it will foul
the policy routing.

The issue is apprently there since at leat Linux-2.6.12-rc2.

Reported-by: Liam McBirnie <liam.mcbirnie@boeing.com>
Cc: Liam McBirnie <liam.mcbirnie@boeing.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
index 87784560dc46..0a4759b89da2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -1034,6 +1034,7 @@ int ip6_tnl_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, __u8 dsfield,
         int mtu;
         unsigned int psh_hlen = sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + t->encap_hlen;
         unsigned int max_headroom = psh_hlen;
+        bool use_cache = false;
         u8 hop_limit;
         int err = -1;
 
@@ -1066,7 +1067,15 @@ int ip6_tnl_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, __u8 dsfield,
 
                 memcpy(&fl6->daddr, addr6, sizeof(fl6->daddr));
                 neigh_release(neigh);
-        } else if (!fl6->flowi6_mark)
+        } else if (!(t->parms.flags &
+                     (IP6_TNL_F_USE_ORIG_TCLASS | IP6_TNL_F_USE_ORIG_FWMARK))) {
+                /* enable the cache only only if the routing decision does
+                 * not depend on the current inner header value
+                 */
+                use_cache = true;
+        }
+
+        if (use_cache)
                 dst = dst_cache_get(&t->dst_cache);
 
         if (!ip6_tnl_xmit_ctl(t, &fl6->saddr, &fl6->daddr))
@@ -1150,7 +1159,7 @@ route_lookup:
                 if (t->encap.type != TUNNEL_ENCAP_NONE)
                         goto tx_err_dst_release;
         } else {
-                if (!fl6->flowi6_mark && ndst)
+                if (use_cache && ndst)
                         dst_cache_set_ip6(&t->dst_cache, ndst, &fl6->saddr);
         }
         skb_dst_set(skb, dst);