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Bug 1136076

Summary: After IKE rekeying Pluto sends DPD even if there is active SA
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Jaroslav Aster <jaster>
Component: libreswanAssignee: Paul Wouters <pwouters>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.5CC: jaster, lmiksik, mthacker, omoris, pwouters
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 7.5   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2018-04-10 17:22:34 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jaroslav Aster 2014-09-01 15:16:23 UTC
Description of problem:

After IKE rekeying Pluto sends DPD even if there is active SA. It can be considered as wrong because it is not needed to send DPD if active SA exists.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

openswan-2.6.32-34

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure and start ipsec on INITIATOR and RESPONDER site.

/etc/ipsec.secrets on both site:

# cat /etc/ipsec.secrets 
: PSK "RedHatEnterpriseLinux"

/etc/ipsec.conf on INITIATOR site:

# cat /etc/ipsec.conf 
config setup
    protostack=netkey
    plutodebug=all

conn test
    left=<I>
    right=<R>
    authby=secret
    auto=add
    dpddelay=5
    dpdtimeout=30
    dpdaction=clear
    ikelifetime=1h
    salifetime=8h


/etc/ipsec.conf on RESPONDER site:

# cat /etc/ipsec.conf
config setup
    protostack=netkey
    plutodebug=all

conn test
    left=<I>
    right=<R>
    authby=secret
    auto=add

I: service ipsec start
R: service ipsec start

2. Up test, set up active SA (ping) and wait at least one hour (ikelifetime).

R: ping INITIATOR (active SA)
I: ipsec auto --up test
wait 1h

3. Check RESPONDER site if there is DPD (R_U_THERE) from INITIATOR

R: grep 'R_U_THERE' /var/log/secure

Actual results:

There is 'R_U_THERE' in /var/log/secure.

Expected results:

No DPD on RESPONDER.

Additional info:

Be sure you establish active SA before up connection, otherwise grep result could be false positive.

Comment 2 Paul Wouters 2016-04-01 02:16:05 UTC
I am confused here.

An active tunnel is not a "tunnel that is up" but a "tunnel that has traffic flow right now". So a DPD should be suppressed when there are ESP packets already going in both directions (or really incoming)

It has nothing to do with rekeying or waiting an hour.

DPD is only meant to see the difference between a completely silent tunnel with no traffic flow on it and a tunnel endpoint that has vanished.

So either this description of this bug is wrong, or this is not a bug.

Comment 3 Jaroslav Aster 2016-04-01 12:06:09 UTC
Hi Paul,

as I wrote in description of the bug, there is a active connection between two hosts - ping. One host sends icmp echo request packet and second host replies icmp echo reply packet. So there is a traffic, libreswan sees that both hosts are alived, because they are communicated to each other, so there is no reason to send DPD (R_U_THERE).

Comment 11 Ondrej Moriš 2018-01-23 10:42:07 UTC
I can confirm that issue is only reproducible when using ikev1, with ikev2 there is no DPD communication during ongoing traffic. 

Configuration for ikev1 case is as follows:

client
------
config setup
    protostack=netkey
    plutodebug=all
    plutostderrlog=/var/log/pluto.log

conn test
    left=<CLIENT>
    right=<SERVER>
    authby=secret
    auto=add
    ikev2=no
    config setup
    protostack=netkey
    plutodebug=all
    plutostderrlog=/var/log/pluto.log
    
server
------
conn test
    left=<SERVER>
    right=<CLIENT>
    authby=secret
    auto=add
    dpddelay=30s
    dpdtimeout=180s
    dpdaction=clear
    ikelifetime=5m
    salifetime=8h
    ikev2=no

Client --up connection and then starts continuously pinging server for 3 minutes and copying client pluto log file during that period. Then we stop log file copying, then we stop pinging and check copied portion of log file for R_U_THERE messages:

ping <SERVER> 2>&1 &
ping_pid=$!
tail -f -n0 /var/log/pluto.log >>pluto_ping.log &
tail_pid=$!
sleep 180
kill $tail_pid
kill $ping_pid
grep 'R_U_THERE' pluto_ping.log
rm -f pluto_ping.log

Double-check with --trafficstatus whack option confirm communication:

# ipsec whack --trafficstatus
006 #2: "test", type=ESP, add_time=1516702713, inBytes=16044, outBytes=16044, id='<SERVER>'

With ikev2, no such messages. With ikev1, R_U_THERE message every 30 seconds (as configured):

Jan 23 11:19:33.904492: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE (0x8d28)
Jan 23 11:19:33.904506: | processing informational R_U_THERE (36136)
Jan 23 11:19:33.904511: | DPD: received R_U_THERE seq:24819 monotime:10148.194 (state=#3 name="test")
Jan 23 11:19:33.904567: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE_ACK (0x8d29)
Jan 23 11:20:03.922556: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE (0x8d28)
Jan 23 11:20:03.922567: | processing informational R_U_THERE (36136)
Jan 23 11:20:03.922573: | DPD: received R_U_THERE seq:31889 monotime:10178.212 (state=#4 name="test")
Jan 23 11:20:03.922633: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE_ACK (0x8d29)
Jan 23 11:20:33.938597: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE (0x8d28)
Jan 23 11:20:33.938608: | processing informational R_U_THERE (36136)
Jan 23 11:20:33.938613: | DPD: received R_U_THERE seq:5560 monotime:10208.228 (state=#5 name="test")
Jan 23 11:20:33.938704: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE_ACK (0x8d29)
Jan 23 11:21:03.958298: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE (0x8d28)
Jan 23 11:21:03.958320: | processing informational R_U_THERE (36136)
Jan 23 11:21:03.958342: | DPD: received R_U_THERE seq:3312 monotime:10238.248 (state=#6 name="test")
Jan 23 11:21:03.958473: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE_ACK (0x8d29)
Jan 23 11:21:33.977331: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE (0x8d28)
Jan 23 11:21:33.977341: | processing informational R_U_THERE (36136)
Jan 23 11:21:33.977346: | DPD: received R_U_THERE seq:16380 monotime:10268.267 (state=#7 name="test")
Jan 23 11:21:33.977401: |    Notify Message Type: R_U_THERE_ACK (0x8d29)

I attached complete pluto logs (debug=all) from both server and client.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 17:22:34 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0932