Use brodcast MAC for broadcast IPv4 packets

When sending packets to a known network's broadcast address, use the
broadcast MAC address.

Test:
- stack_test.TestOutgoingSubnetBroadcast
- udp_test.TestOutgoingSubnetBroadcast
PiperOrigin-RevId: 324062407

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/stack/stack.go b/pkg/tcpip/stack/stack.go
index a6faa22c2..36626e051 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/stack/stack.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/stack/stack.go
@@ -1284,9 +1284,9 @@ func (s *Stack) FindRoute(id tcpip.NICID, localAddr, remoteAddr tcpip.Address, n
 	s.mu.RLock()
 	defer s.mu.RUnlock()
 
-	isBroadcast := remoteAddr == header.IPv4Broadcast
+	isLocalBroadcast := remoteAddr == header.IPv4Broadcast
 	isMulticast := header.IsV4MulticastAddress(remoteAddr) || header.IsV6MulticastAddress(remoteAddr)
-	needRoute := !(isBroadcast || isMulticast || header.IsV6LinkLocalAddress(remoteAddr))
+	needRoute := !(isLocalBroadcast || isMulticast || header.IsV6LinkLocalAddress(remoteAddr))
 	if id != 0 && !needRoute {
 		if nic, ok := s.nics[id]; ok && nic.enabled() {
 			if ref := s.getRefEP(nic, localAddr, remoteAddr, netProto); ref != nil {
@@ -1307,9 +1307,16 @@ func (s *Stack) FindRoute(id tcpip.NICID, localAddr, remoteAddr tcpip.Address, n
 					}
 
 					r := makeRoute(netProto, ref.ep.ID().LocalAddress, remoteAddr, nic.linkEP.LinkAddress(), ref, s.handleLocal && !nic.isLoopback(), multicastLoop && !nic.isLoopback())
-					if needRoute {
-						r.NextHop = route.Gateway
+					r.directedBroadcast = route.Destination.IsBroadcast(remoteAddr)
+
+					if len(route.Gateway) > 0 {
+						if needRoute {
+							r.NextHop = route.Gateway
+						}
+					} else if r.directedBroadcast {
+						r.RemoteLinkAddress = header.EthernetBroadcastAddress
 					}
+
 					return r, nil
 				}
 			}