Re: [PATCH net] flow_dissector: fix byteorder of dissected ICMP ID

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Sun Mar 14 2021 - 16:45:36 EST


On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 09:21:40PM +0100, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 09:08 PM CET, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > flow_dissector_key_icmp::id is of type u16 (CPU byteorder),
> > ICMP header has its ID field in network byteorder obviously.
> > Sparse says:
> >
> > net/core/flow_dissector.c:178:43: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
> >
> > Convert ID value to CPU byteorder when storing it into
> > flow_dissector_key_icmp.
> >
> > Fixes: 5dec597e5cd0 ("flow_dissector: extract more ICMP information")
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@xxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/core/flow_dissector.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/core/flow_dissector.c b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
> > index 2ef2224b3bff..a96a4f5de0ce 100644
> > --- a/net/core/flow_dissector.c
> > +++ b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
> > @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ void skb_flow_get_icmp_tci(const struct sk_buff *skb,
> > * avoid confusion with packets without such field
> > */
> > if (icmp_has_id(ih->type))
> > - key_icmp->id = ih->un.echo.id ? : 1;
> > + key_icmp->id = ih->un.echo.id ? ntohs(ih->un.echo.id) : 1;
> > else
> > key_icmp->id = 0;
> > }
>
> Smells like a breaking change for existing consumers of this value.
>
> How about we change the type of flow_dissector_key_icmp{}.id to __be16
> instead to make sparse happy?

The struct flow_dissector_key_icmp::id only appears to be used in
bond_xmit_hash, and there, the exact value doesn't seem to matter.

This appears to be a real bug and not just to appease sparse:
ih->un.echo.id has one endianness and "1" has another. Both cannot
be correct.