ipv6: add option to drop unsolicited neighbor advertisements

In certain 802.11 wireless deployments, there will be NA proxies
that use knowledge of the network to correctly answer requests.
To prevent unsolicitd advertisements on the shared medium from
being a problem, on such deployments wireless needs to drop them.

Enable this by providing an option called "drop_unsolicited_na".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

5 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index e0e7350..24ce97f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1680,6 +1680,13 @@ drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
 
 	By default this is turned off.
 
+drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
+	Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
+	a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
+	(or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
+
+	By default this is turned off.
+
 icmp/*:
 ratelimit - INTEGER
 	Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
diff --git a/include/linux/ipv6.h b/include/linux/ipv6.h
index 4a4c1ae..4b2267e 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipv6.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct ipv6_devconf {
 	__s32           ndisc_notify;
 	__s32		suppress_frag_ndisc;
 	__s32		accept_ra_mtu;
+	__s32		drop_unsolicited_na;
 	struct ipv6_stable_secret {
 		bool initialized;
 		struct in6_addr secret;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h b/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
index 4c41357..ec117b6 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ enum {
 	DEVCONF_ACCEPT_RA_MIN_HOP_LIMIT,
 	DEVCONF_IGNORE_ROUTES_WITH_LINKDOWN,
 	DEVCONF_DROP_UNICAST_IN_L2_MULTICAST,
+	DEVCONF_DROP_UNSOLICITED_NA,
 	DEVCONF_MAX
 };
 
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 23e325f..ac0ba9e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -4712,6 +4712,7 @@ static inline void ipv6_store_devconf(struct ipv6_devconf *cnf,
 	/* we omit DEVCONF_STABLE_SECRET for now */
 	array[DEVCONF_USE_OIF_ADDRS_ONLY] = cnf->use_oif_addrs_only;
 	array[DEVCONF_DROP_UNICAST_IN_L2_MULTICAST] = cnf->drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast;
+	array[DEVCONF_DROP_UNSOLICITED_NA] = cnf->drop_unsolicited_na;
 }
 
 static inline size_t inet6_ifla6_size(void)
@@ -5793,6 +5794,13 @@ static struct addrconf_sysctl_table
 			.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 		},
 		{
+			.procname	= "drop_unsolicited_na",
+			.data		= &ipv6_devconf.drop_unsolicited_na,
+			.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+			.mode		= 0644,
+			.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		},
+		{
 			/* sentinel */
 		}
 	},
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index 84afb9a..c245895 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -883,6 +883,7 @@ static void ndisc_recv_na(struct sk_buff *skb)
 				    offsetof(struct nd_msg, opt));
 	struct ndisc_options ndopts;
 	struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
+	struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
 	struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp;
 	struct neighbour *neigh;
 
@@ -902,6 +903,14 @@ static void ndisc_recv_na(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/* For some 802.11 wireless deployments (and possibly other networks),
+	 * there will be a NA proxy and unsolicitd packets are attacks
+	 * and thus should not be accepted.
+	 */
+	if (!msg->icmph.icmp6_solicited && idev &&
+	    idev->cnf.drop_unsolicited_na)
+		return;
+
 	if (!ndisc_parse_options(msg->opt, ndoptlen, &ndopts)) {
 		ND_PRINTK(2, warn, "NS: invalid ND option\n");
 		return;