Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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[ Upstream commit 32182747 ] When constructing ICMP response messages, the kernel will try to pick a suitable source address for the outgoing packet. However, if no IPv4 addresses are configured on the system at all, this will fail and we end up producing an ICMP message with a source address of 0.0.0.0. This can happen on a box routing IPv4 traffic via v6 nexthops, for instance. Since 0.0.0.0 is not generally routable on the internet, there's a good chance that such ICMP messages will never make it back to the sender of the original packet that the ICMP message was sent in response to. This, in turn, can create connectivity and PMTUd problems for senders. Fortunately, RFC7600 reserves a dummy address to be used as a source for ICMP messages (192.0.0.8/32), so let's teach the kernel to substitute that address as a last resort if the regular source address selection procedure fails. Below is a quick examp...