3 files changed, 68 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv4/ipv4.go b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv4/ipv4.go
index aef789b4c..63223bc92 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv4/ipv4.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv4/ipv4.go
@@ -167,6 +167,13 @@ func (p *protocol) findEndpointWithAddress(addr tcpip.Address) *endpoint {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (p *protocol) getEndpointForNIC(id tcpip.NICID) (*endpoint, bool) {
+	p.mu.RLock()
+	defer p.mu.RUnlock()
+	ep, ok := p.mu.eps[id]
+	return ep, ok
+}
+
 func (p *protocol) forgetEndpoint(nicID tcpip.NICID) {
 	p.mu.Lock()
 	defer p.mu.Unlock()
@@ -746,7 +753,8 @@ func (e *endpoint) forwardPacket(pkt *stack.PacketBuffer) ip.ForwardingError {
 	// We need to do a deep copy of the IP packet because
 	// WriteHeaderIncludedPacket takes ownership of the packet buffer, but we do
 	// not own it.
-	newHdr := header.IPv4(stack.PayloadSince(pkt.NetworkHeader()))
+	newPkt := pkt.DeepCopyForForwarding(int(r.MaxHeaderLength()))
+	newHdr := header.IPv4(newPkt.NetworkHeader().View())
 
 	// As per RFC 791 page 30, Time to Live,
 	//
@@ -755,12 +763,19 @@ func (e *endpoint) forwardPacket(pkt *stack.PacketBuffer) ip.ForwardingError {
 	//   Even if no local information is available on the time actually
 	//   spent, the field must be decremented by 1.
 	newHdr.SetTTL(ttl - 1)
+	// We perform a full checksum as we may have updated options above. The IP
+	// header is relatively small so this is not expected to be an expensive
+	// operation.
+	newHdr.SetChecksum(0)
+	newHdr.SetChecksum(^newHdr.CalculateChecksum())
+
+	forwardToEp, ok := e.protocol.getEndpointForNIC(r.NICID())
+	if !ok {
+		// The interface was removed after we obtained the route.
+		return &ip.ErrOther{Err: &tcpip.ErrUnknownDevice{}}
+	}
 
-	switch err := r.WriteHeaderIncludedPacket(stack.NewPacketBuffer(stack.PacketBufferOptions{
-		ReserveHeaderBytes: int(r.MaxHeaderLength()),
-		Data:               buffer.View(newHdr).ToVectorisedView(),
-		IsForwardedPacket:  true,
-	})); err.(type) {
+	switch err := forwardToEp.writePacket(r, newPkt, true /* headerIncluded */); err.(type) {
 	case nil:
 		return nil
 	case *tcpip.ErrMessageTooLong:
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
index c824e27fa..3799d8245 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
@@ -1024,7 +1024,8 @@ func (e *endpoint) forwardPacket(pkt *stack.PacketBuffer) ip.ForwardingError {
 	// We need to do a deep copy of the IP packet because
 	// WriteHeaderIncludedPacket takes ownership of the packet buffer, but we do
 	// not own it.
-	newHdr := header.IPv6(stack.PayloadSince(pkt.NetworkHeader()))
+	newPkt := pkt.DeepCopyForForwarding(int(r.MaxHeaderLength()))
+	newHdr := header.IPv6(newPkt.NetworkHeader().View())
 
 	// As per RFC 8200 section 3,
 	//
@@ -1032,11 +1033,13 @@ func (e *endpoint) forwardPacket(pkt *stack.PacketBuffer) ip.ForwardingError {
 	//                       each node that forwards the packet.
 	newHdr.SetHopLimit(hopLimit - 1)
 
-	switch err := r.WriteHeaderIncludedPacket(stack.NewPacketBuffer(stack.PacketBufferOptions{
-		ReserveHeaderBytes: int(r.MaxHeaderLength()),
-		Data:               buffer.View(newHdr).ToVectorisedView(),
-		IsForwardedPacket:  true,
-	})); err.(type) {
+	forwardToEp, ok := e.protocol.getEndpointForNIC(r.NICID())
+	if !ok {
+		// The interface was removed after we obtained the route.
+		return &ip.ErrOther{Err: &tcpip.ErrUnknownDevice{}}
+	}
+
+	switch err := forwardToEp.writePacket(r, newPkt, newPkt.TransportProtocolNumber, true /* headerIncluded */); err.(type) {
 	case nil:
 		return nil
 	case *tcpip.ErrMessageTooLong:
@@ -2082,6 +2085,13 @@ func (p *protocol) findEndpointWithAddress(addr tcpip.Address) *endpoint {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (p *protocol) getEndpointForNIC(id tcpip.NICID) (*endpoint, bool) {
+	p.mu.RLock()
+	defer p.mu.RUnlock()
+	ep, ok := p.mu.eps[id]
+	return ep, ok
+}
+
 func (p *protocol) forgetEndpoint(nicID tcpip.NICID) {
 	p.mu.Lock()
 	defer p.mu.Unlock()
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/stack/packet_buffer.go b/pkg/tcpip/stack/packet_buffer.go
index 29c22bfd4..b9280c2de 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/stack/packet_buffer.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/stack/packet_buffer.go
@@ -341,6 +341,37 @@ func (pk *PacketBuffer) CloneToInbound() *PacketBuffer {
 	return newPk
 }
 
+// DeepCopyForForwarding creates a deep copy of the packet buffer for
+// forwarding.
+//
+// The returned packet buffer will have the network and transport headers
+// set if the original packet buffer did.
+func (pk *PacketBuffer) DeepCopyForForwarding(reservedHeaderBytes int) *PacketBuffer {
+	newPkt := NewPacketBuffer(PacketBufferOptions{
+		ReserveHeaderBytes: reservedHeaderBytes,
+		Data:               PayloadSince(pk.NetworkHeader()).ToVectorisedView(),
+		IsForwardedPacket:  true,
+	})
+
+	{
+		consumeBytes := pk.NetworkHeader().View().Size()
+		if _, consumed := newPkt.NetworkHeader().Consume(consumeBytes); !consumed {
+			panic(fmt.Sprintf("expected to consume network header %d bytes from new packet", consumeBytes))
+		}
+		newPkt.NetworkProtocolNumber = pk.NetworkProtocolNumber
+	}
+
+	{
+		consumeBytes := pk.TransportHeader().View().Size()
+		if _, consumed := newPkt.TransportHeader().Consume(consumeBytes); !consumed {
+			panic(fmt.Sprintf("expected to consume transport header %d bytes from new packet", consumeBytes))
+		}
+		newPkt.TransportProtocolNumber = pk.TransportProtocolNumber
+	}
+
+	return newPkt
+}
+
 // headerInfo stores metadata about a header in a packet.
 type headerInfo struct {
 	// offset is the offset of the header in pk.buf relative to