[PATCH] Fix panic with pf fastroute

Kristof Provost kristof at sigsegv.be
Wed Mar 11 08:39:24 UTC 2015


Set up a pf ruleset with at least the following rule
> pass out fastroute inet6 proto icmp6 all icmp6-type echoreq

Send out an icmp6 echo request (i.e. ping6 2001:db8::1). This causes a
panic in ip6_output() when comparing the old and new destination
addresses (IN6_ARE_ADDR_EQUAL()) just after the netpfil hook.

The cause is the fastroute option, which means that the mbuf is handed
off to ip6_output() from pf itself and should no longer be processed by
the ip6_output() which called pf in the first place.

The pf code in pf_route6() neglected to set the mbuf pointer to NULL
after the call to ip6_output(). As a result we end up trying to continue
processing on an mbuf which has already been freed.
---
 sys/netpfil/pf/pf.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/sys/netpfil/pf/pf.c b/sys/netpfil/pf/pf.c
index b32288b..7c3ddb8 100644
--- a/sys/netpfil/pf/pf.c
+++ b/sys/netpfil/pf/pf.c
@@ -5470,6 +5470,7 @@ pf_route6(struct mbuf **m, struct pf_rule *r, int dir, struct ifnet *oifp,
 			PF_STATE_UNLOCK(s);
 		m0->m_flags |= M_SKIP_FIREWALL;
 		ip6_output(m0, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+		*m = NULL;
 		return;
 	}
 


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