Re: [PATCH v3] xfrm: fix tunnel model fragmentation behavior

[Steffen Klassert]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 03:48:01PM +0800, Lina Wang wrote:
> in tunnel mode, if outer interface(ipv4) is less, it is easily to let
> inner IPV6 mtu be less than 1280. If so, a Packet Too Big ICMPV6 message
> is received. When send again, packets are fragmentized with 1280, they
> are still rejected with ICMPV6(Packet Too Big) by xfrmi_xmit2().
> 
> According to RFC4213 Section3.2.2:
> if (IPv4 path MTU - 20) is less than 1280
> 	if packet is larger than 1280 bytes
> 		Send ICMPv6 "packet too big" with MTU=1280
>                 Drop packet
>         else
> 		Encapsulate but do not set the Don't Fragment
>                 flag in the IPv4 header.  The resulting IPv4
>                 packet might be fragmented by the IPv4 layer
>                 on the encapsulator or by some router along
>                 the IPv4 path.
> 	endif
> else
> 	if packet is larger than (IPv4 path MTU - 20)
>         	Send ICMPv6 "packet too big" with
>                 MTU = (IPv4 path MTU - 20).
>                 Drop packet.
>         else
>                 Encapsulate and set the Don't Fragment flag
>                 in the IPv4 header.
>         endif
> endif
> Packets should be fragmentized with ipv4 outer interface, so change it.
> 
> After it is fragemtized with ipv4, there will be double fragmenation.
> No.48 & No.51 are ipv6 fragment packets, No.48 is double fragmentized,
> then tunneled with IPv4(No.49& No.50), which obey spec. And received peer
> cannot decrypt it rightly.
> 
> 48              2002::10        2002::11 1296(length) IPv6 fragment (off=0 more=y ident=0xa20da5bc nxt=50)
> 49   0x0000 (0) 2002::10        2002::11 1304         IPv6 fragment (off=0 more=y ident=0x7448042c nxt=44)
> 50   0x0000 (0) 2002::10        2002::11 200          ESP (SPI=0x00035000)
> 51              2002::10        2002::11 180          Echo (ping) request
> 52   0x56dc     2002::10        2002::11 248          IPv6 fragment (off=1232 more=n ident=0xa20da5bc nxt=50)
> 
> xfrm6_noneed_fragment has fixed above issues. Finally, it acted like below:
> 1   0x6206 192.168.1.138   192.168.1.1 1316 Fragmented IP protocol (proto=Encap Security Payload 50, off=0, ID=6206) [Reassembled in #2]
> 2   0x6206 2002::10        2002::11    88   IPv6 fragment (off=0 more=y ident=0x1f440778 nxt=50)
> 3   0x0000 2002::10        2002::11    248  ICMPv6    Echo (ping) request
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lina Wang <lina.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks Lina!