Re: [PATCH 02/16 net-next v3] net: core: add IPv4 fallback stubs and guards for CONFIG_IPV4=n

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- [Medium] With CONFIG_IPV4=n, the new ip_setsockopt()/ip_getsockopt()
  stubs make every SOL_IP option return -EAFNOSUPPORT.
- [Medium] The patch adds `if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV4)) return
  -EAFNOSUPPORT;` at the top of dev_ifconf() (net/core/dev_ioctl.c).
- [Low] Baseline decision: false (not a real bug by the end of the
  series).
- [Low] The patch changes the INDIRECT_CALL_INET_1() gate in
  include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h from CONFIG_INET to CONFIG_IPV4.
- [Low] The CONFIG_IPV4=n stub of ip_route_output_flow() in
  include/net/route.h is a function definition with an unnamed first…

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net: core: add IPv4 fallback stubs and guards for CONFIG_IPV4=n

This commit adds static inline stubs to include/net/ip.h and
include/net/route.h for use when CONFIG_IPV4 is disabled. It also adds
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV4) guards to generic networking code so that code
links without IPv4. Finally, it gates the INDIRECT_CALL_INET() and
INDIRECT_CALL_INET_1() helpers on CONFIG_IPV4 instead of CONFIG_INET.

> diff --git a/include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h b/include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
> index 0e4340ecd857a..583efbc034466 100644
> --- a/include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
> +++ b/include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h

[ ... ]

> -#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET)
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV4)
>  #define INDIRECT_CALL_INET_1(f, f1, ...) INDIRECT_CALL_1(f, f1, __VA_ARGS__)
>  #else
>  #define INDIRECT_CALL_INET_1(f, f1, ...) f(__VA_ARGS__)

[Severity: Low]
Does INDIRECT_CALL_INET_1() need to be gated on CONFIG_IPV4?

Every f1 passed to this macro is a TCP core function that is still built
when IPV4=n: tcp_release_cb, tcp_leave_memory_pressure,
tcp_stream_memory_free and tcp_bpf_bypass_getsockopt. tcpv6_prot uses
all of them as well.

For example, release_sock() in net/core/sock.c has:

	INDIRECT_CALL_INET_1(sk->sk_prot->release_cb,
			     tcp_release_cb, sk);

Consider a CONFIG_IPV4=n, CONFIG_IPV6=y kernel with retpolines. There,
release_sock(), sk_leave_memory_pressure(), sk_stream_memory_free() and
BPF_CGROUP_RUN_PROG_GETSOCKOPT would make an indirect call instead of
the direct tcp_* call.

INDIRECT_CALL_INET() above keeps an IPv6 fast path, but
INDIRECT_CALL_INET_1() loses it. Could this macro stay gated on
CONFIG_INET?

> diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
> index 6f602df72ee62..194a464c443af 100644
> --- a/include/net/ip.h
> +++ b/include/net/ip.h

[ ... ]

> @@ -225,27 +235,58 @@ int ip_append_data(struct sock *sk, struct flowi4 *fl4,

[ ... ]

> +static inline struct sk_buff *ip_finish_skb(struct sock *sk, struct flowi4 *fl4)
> +{
> +	return ERR_PTR(-EAFNOSUPPORT);
> +}

[Severity: Low]
The real ip_finish_skb() calls __ip_make_skb(), which only returns NULL
or a valid skb. Its callers check only for NULL:

	skb = ip_finish_skb(sk, fl4);
	if (!skb)
		goto out;

Later in the series, both callers, udp_push_pending_frames() and
ip_push_pending_frames(), end up in objects that are built only with
CONFIG_IPV4. udp_v6_push_pending_frames() also guards its call with
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV4).

So this stub looks unreachable. At this commit CONFIG_IPV4 is still
def_bool y, so the stub isn't compiled at all.

Should the stub return NULL to match the return contract of the real
function?

[ ... ]

> @@ -813,24 +854,60 @@ int ip_options_rcv_srr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);

[ ... ]

> +static inline int ip_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> +				sockptr_t optval, unsigned int optlen)
> +{
> +	return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
> +}
> +
> +static inline int ip_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> +				char __user *optval, int __user *optlen)
> +{
> +	return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
> +}
> +#endif

[Severity: Medium]
With CONFIG_IPV4=n, do these stubs remove SOL_IP options that IPv6
sockets rely on?

ipv6_setsockopt() and ipv6_getsockopt() forward SOL_IP to these
functions for AF_INET6 sockets:

net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c:ipv6_setsockopt() {
    ...
	if (level == SOL_IP && sk->sk_type != SOCK_RAW)
		return ip_setsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen);
    ...
}

MPTCP also calls ip_setsockopt() directly, from
mptcp_setsockopt_sol_ip_set() and mptcp_setsockopt_v4_set_tos().

Some of these options work for any address family and have no SOL_IPV6
equivalent, such as IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE.
The only code that sets INET_FLAGS_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and the
per-socket local_port_range is in ip_sockglue.c. By the end of the
series that file is built only with CONFIG_IPV4. However, __inet6_bind()
and the port range selection still read that state for IPv6 sockets.

On an IPv6-only kernel, this call would then fail with EAFNOSUPPORT:

	setsockopt(fd6, SOL_IP, IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT, ...)

The commit message says:

    This behaves as IPv6 code does.

However, CONFIG_IPV6=n doesn't remove any options from IPv4 sockets. Is
this loss of IPv6 socket functionality intended?

> diff --git a/include/net/route.h b/include/net/route.h
> index 6b55de2e4df88..8c21881eb5f4f 100644
> --- a/include/net/route.h
> +++ b/include/net/route.h
> @@ -169,8 +169,16 @@ static inline struct rtable *__ip_route_output_key(struct net *net,
>  	return ip_route_output_key_hash(net, flp, NULL);
>  }
>  
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV4)
>  struct rtable *ip_route_output_flow(struct net *, struct flowi4 *flp,
>  				    const struct sock *sk);
> +#else
> +static inline struct rtable *ip_route_output_flow(struct net *, struct flowi4 *flp,
> +						  const struct sock *sk)
> +{
> +	return ERR_PTR(-EAFNOSUPPORT);
> +}
> +#endif

[Severity: Low]
Will this stub build with all supported compilers once the later patch
in the series makes CONFIG_IPV4=n selectable?

The stub is a function definition whose first parameter has no name.
gnu11 doesn't allow that; only C23 does. GCC 8 through 10 reject it with
"parameter name omitted", and Documentation/process/changes.rst lists
GCC 8.1 as the minimum version. Clang warns that this is a C23
extension, which breaks CONFIG_WERROR builds.

Naming the parameter (struct net *net) would avoid this.

> diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> index 164643140a523..a10921aa3e23f 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ int dev_ifconf(struct net *net, struct ifconf __user *uifc)
>  	size_t size;
>  	int len, total = 0, done;
>  
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV4))
> +		return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
> +

[Severity: Medium]
Does this early return change SIOCGIFCONF behaviour on existing
CONFIG_INET=n kernels?

CONFIG_IPV4 is only defined inside "if INET" in net/Kconfig. That means
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV4) evaluates to 0 whenever CONFIG_INET=n.

Before this patch, those kernels used the !CONFIG_INET stub in
include/linux/inetdevice.h:

static inline int inet_gifconf(struct net_device *dev, char __user *buf,
			       int len, int size)
{
	return 0;
}

So SIOCGIFCONF succeeded and returned ifc_len = 0.

sock_ioctl() passes SIOCGIFCONF to dev_ifconf() for any socket family,
for example AF_UNIX, AF_PACKET or AF_NETLINK. On CONFIG_INET=n kernels
the ioctl now fails with EAFNOSUPPORT. The inet_gifconf() stub also
becomes unreachable.

Could the inet_gifconf() stub be gated on CONFIG_IPV4 instead, and this
early return dropped? That would keep the existing result of success
with an empty list.

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