On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:05:39PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> In our test lab, we have a simple SCTP client connecting to a SCTP
> server via an IPVS load balancer. On some machines, load balancing
> works, but on others the initial handshake just fails, thus no
> SCTP connection whatsoever can be established!
>
> We observed that the SCTP INIT-ACK handshake reply from the IPVS
> machine to the client had a correct IP checksum, but corrupt SCTP
> checksum when forwarded, thus on the client-side the packet was
> dropped and an intial handshake retriggered until all attempts
> run into the void.
>
> To fix this issue, this patch i) adds a missing CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
> after the full checksum (re-)calculation (as done in IPVS TCP and UDP
> code as well), and ii) calculates the checksum in little-endian format
> (as fixed with the SCTP code in commit 4458f04c: sctp: Clean up sctp
> checksumming code). Stable backport of upstream commit 4b47bc9a.
>
> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c | 14 ++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c
> b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c
> index 9f3fb75..94bb367 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_sctp.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ sctp_snat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb,
> sctp_sctphdr_t *sctph;
> unsigned int sctphoff;
> struct sk_buff *iter;
> - __be32 crc32;
> + __u32 crc32;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6
> if (cp->af == AF_INET6)
> @@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ sctp_snat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb,
> skb_walk_frags(skb, iter)
> crc32 = sctp_update_cksum((u8 *) iter->data, skb_headlen(iter),
> crc32);
> - crc32 = sctp_end_cksum(crc32);
> - sctph->checksum = crc32;
> + sctph->checksum = sctp_end_cksum(crc32);
> +
> + skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
>
> return 1;
> }
> @@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ sctp_dnat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb,
> sctp_sctphdr_t *sctph;
> unsigned int sctphoff;
> struct sk_buff *iter;
> - __be32 crc32;
> + __u32 crc32;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6
> if (cp->af == AF_INET6)
> @@ -145,8 +146,9 @@ sctp_dnat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb,
> skb_walk_frags(skb, iter)
> crc32 = sctp_update_cksum((u8 *) iter->data, skb_headlen(iter),
> crc32);
> - crc32 = sctp_end_cksum(crc32);
> - sctph->checksum = crc32;
> + sctph->checksum = sctp_end_cksum(crc32);
> +
> + skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
>
> return 1;
> }
> --
> 1.7.11.7
>
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Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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