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ipv6: make DAD fail with enhanced DAD when nonce length differs

Commit adc176c54722 ("ipv6 addrconf: Implemented enhanced DAD (RFC7527)")
added enhanced DAD with a nonce length of 6 bytes. However, RFC7527
doesn't specify the length of the nonce, other than being 6 + 8*k bytes,
with integer k >= 0 (RFC3971 5.3.2). The current implementation simply
assumes that the nonce will always be 6 bytes, but others systems are
free to choose different sizes.

If another system sends a nonce of different length but with the same 6
bytes prefix, it shouldn't be considered as the same nonce. Thus, check
that the length of the received nonce is the same as the length we sent.

Ugly scapy test script running on veth0:

def loop():
pkt=sniff(iface="veth0", filter="icmp6", count=1)
pkt = pkt[0]
b = bytearray(pkt[Raw].load)
b[1] += 1
b += b'\xde\xad\xbe\xef\xde\xad\xbe\xef'
pkt[Raw].load = bytes(b)
pkt[IPv6].plen += 8
# fixup checksum after modifying the payload
pkt[IPv6].payload.cksum -= 0x3b44
if pkt[IPv6].payload.cksum < 0:
pkt[IPv6].payload.cksum += 0xffff
sendp(pkt, iface="veth0")

This should result in DAD failure for any address added to veth0's peer,
but is currently ignored.

Fixes: adc176c54722 ("ipv6 addrconf: Implemented enhanced DAD (RFC7527)")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Sabrina Dubroca and committed by
David S. Miller
e6651599 014dd768

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net/ipv6/ndisc.c
··· 811 811 return; 812 812 } 813 813 } 814 - if (ndopts.nd_opts_nonce) 814 + if (ndopts.nd_opts_nonce && ndopts.nd_opts_nonce->nd_opt_len == 1) 815 815 memcpy(&nonce, (u8 *)(ndopts.nd_opts_nonce + 1), 6); 816 816 817 817 inc = ipv6_addr_is_multicast(daddr);