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    ipv4: reset flowi parameters on route connect · e6b45241
    Julian Anastasov authored
    Eric Dumazet found that commit 813b3b5d
    
    
    (ipv4: Use caller's on-stack flowi as-is in output
    route lookups.) that comes in 3.0 added a regression.
    The problem appears to be that resulting flowi4_oif is
    used incorrectly as input parameter to some routing lookups.
    The result is that when connecting to local port without
    listener if the IP address that is used is not on a loopback
    interface we incorrectly assign RTN_UNICAST to the output
    route because no route is matched by oif=lo. The RST packet
    can not be sent immediately by tcp_v4_send_reset because
    it expects RTN_LOCAL.
    
    	So, change ip_route_connect and ip_route_newports to
    update the flowi4 fields that are input parameters because
    we do not want unnecessary binding to oif.
    
    	To make it clear what are the input parameters that
    can be modified during lookup and to show which fields of
    floiw4 are reused add a new function to update the flowi4
    structure: flowi4_update_output.
    
    Thanks to Yurij M. Plotnikov for providing a bug report including a
    program to reproduce the problem.
    
    Thanks to Eric Dumazet for tracking the problem down to
    tcp_v4_send_reset and providing initial fix.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarYurij M. Plotnikov <Yurij.Plotnikov@oktetlabs.ru>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
    Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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