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2025-09-10netfilter: nf_tables: make nft_set_do_lookup available unconditionallyFlorian Westphal
This function was added for retpoline mitigation and is replaced by a static inline helper if mitigations are not enabled. Enable this helper function unconditionally so next patch can add a lookup restart mechanism to fix possible false negatives while transactions are in progress. Adding lookup restarts in nft_lookup_eval doesn't work as nft_objref would then need the same copypaste loop. This patch is separate to ease review of the actual bug fix. Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2025-09-10netfilter: nf_tables: place base_seq in struct netFlorian Westphal
This will soon be read from packet path around same time as the gencursor. Both gencursor and base_seq get incremented almost at the same time, so it makes sense to place them in the same structure. This doesn't increase struct net size on 64bit due to padding. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2025-07-25netfilter: nft_set: remove indirection from update API callFlorian Westphal
This stems from a time when sets and nft_dynset resided in different kernel modules. We can replace this with a direct call. We could even remove both ->update and ->delete, given its only supported by rhashtable, but on the off-chance we'll see runtime add/delete for other types or a new set type keep that as-is for now. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-07-25netfilter: nft_set: remove one argument from lookup and update functionsFlorian Westphal
Return the extension pointer instead of passing it as a function argument to be filled in by the callee. As-is, whenever false is returned, the extension pointer is not used. For all set types, when true is returned, the extension pointer was set to the matching element. Only exception: nft_set_bitmap doesn't support extensions. Return a pointer to a static const empty element extension container. return false -> return NULL return true -> return the elements' extension pointer. This saves one function argument. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-07-25netfilter: nf_tables: Remove unused nft_reduce_is_readonly()Yue Haibing
Since commit 9e539c5b6d9c ("netfilter: nf_tables: disable expression reduction infra") this is unused. Signed-off-by: Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-07-25netfilter: load nf_log_syslog on enabling nf_conntrack_log_invalidLance Yang
When no logger is registered, nf_conntrack_log_invalid fails to log invalid packets, leaving users unaware of actual invalid traffic. Improve this by loading nf_log_syslog, similar to how 'iptables -I FORWARD 1 -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID -j LOG' triggers it. Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Zi Li <zi.li@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-07-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.16-rc7). Conflicts: Documentation/netlink/specs/ovpn.yaml 880d43ca9aa4 ("netlink: specs: clean up spaces in brackets") af52020fc599 ("ovpn: reject unexpected netlink attributes") drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c a44312d58e78 ("net: phy: Don't register LEDs for genphy") f0f2b992d818 ("net: phy: Don't register LEDs for genphy") https://lore.kernel.org/20250710114926.7ec3a64f@kernel.org drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/regulatory.c drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/regulatory.c 5fde0fcbd760 ("wifi: iwlwifi: mask reserved bits in chan_state_active_bitmap") ea045a0de3b9 ("wifi: iwlwifi: add support for accepting raw DSM tables by firmware") net/ipv6/mcast.c ae3264a25a46 ("ipv6: mcast: Delay put pmc->idev in mld_del_delrec()") a8594c956cc9 ("ipv6: mcast: Avoid a duplicate pointer check in mld_del_delrec()") https://lore.kernel.org/8cc52891-3653-4b03-a45e-05464fe495cf@kernel.org No adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-17netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix crash due to removal of uninitialised entryFlorian Westphal
A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack entry from the hash bucket list: [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172] [..] #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack] #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack] #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack] [..] The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in a partially initialised state: ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value (hence crash). ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected. Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry. If we ignore ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly allocated but not yet inserted into the hash: - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value. If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED, __nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry. Theory is that we did hit following race: cpu x cpu y cpu z found entry E found entry E E is expired <preemption> nf_ct_delete() return E to rcu slab init_conntrack E is re-inited, ct->status set to 0 reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev stores hash value. cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x. E is now re-inited on cpu z. cpu y was preempted before checking for expiry and/or confirm bit. ->refcnt set to 1 E now owned by skb ->timeout set to 30000 If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit. nf_conntrack_confirm gets called sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED This is wrong: E is not yet added to hashtable. cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED: <resumes> nf_ct_expired() -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s) confirmed bit set. cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable: nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit __nf_ct_delete_from_lists Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash: cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks: wait for spinlock held by z CONFIRMED is set but there is no guarantee ct will be added to hash: "chaintoolong" or "clash resolution" logic both skip the insert step. reply hnnode.pprev still stores the hash value. unlocks spinlock return NF_DROP <unblocks, then crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev> In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink E again right away but no crash occurs. Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence: ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy. To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table insertion but before the unlock. Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this. It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right before the CONFIRMED bit was set: Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation" case: the entry will be skipped. Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit. The gc sequence is: 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry. 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1. nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date instead of a relative time. Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry. Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence: 1. Check if entry has expired. 2. Obtain a reference. 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1: 4 - entry is still observed as expired 5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU and confirm bit gets set 6 - confirm bit is seen 7 - valid entry is removed again First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for re-inited conntrack objects. This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without commit 8a75a2c17410 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list") |= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes. Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/ Fixes: 1397af5bfd7d ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-07-14Revert "netfilter: nf_tables: Add notifications for hook changes"Phil Sutter
This reverts commit 465b9ee0ee7bc268d7f261356afd6c4262e48d82. Such notifications fit better into core or nfnetlink_hook code, following the NFNL_MSG_HOOK_GET message format. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-07-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.16-rc6-2). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c c701574c5412 ("wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix invalid array index in ssid assignment during hw scan") b3a431fe2e39 ("wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix off by one in mt7925_mcu_hw_scan()") drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mac.c 62da647a2b20 ("wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add MLO support to mt7996_tx_check_aggr()") dc66a129adf1 ("wifi: mt76: add a wrapper for wcid access with validation") drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/main.c 3dd6f67c669c ("wifi: mt76: Move RCU section in mt7996_mcu_add_rate_ctrl()") 8989d8e90f5f ("wifi: mt76: mt7996: Do not set wcid.sta to 1 in mt7996_mac_sta_event()") net/mac80211/cfg.c 58fcb1b4287c ("wifi: mac80211: reject VHT opmode for unsupported channel widths") 037dc18ac3fb ("wifi: mac80211: add support for storing station S1G capabilities") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-10netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()Eric Dumazet
syzbot found a potential access to uninit-value in nf_flow_pppoe_proto() Blamed commit forgot the Ethernet header. BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27 nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:157 [inline] nf_hook_slow+0xe1/0x3d0 net/netfilter/core.c:623 nf_hook_ingress include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h:34 [inline] nf_ingress net/core/dev.c:5742 [inline] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x4aff/0x70c0 net/core/dev.c:5837 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5975 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0xac0 net/core/dev.c:6090 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6176 [inline] netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x630 net/core/dev.c:6235 tun_rx_batched+0x1df/0x980 drivers/net/tun.c:1485 tun_get_user+0x4ee0/0x6b40 drivers/net/tun.c:1938 tun_chr_write_iter+0x3e9/0x5c0 drivers/net/tun.c:1984 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0xb4b/0x1580 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_write fs/read_write.c:738 [inline] __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline] Reported-by: syzbot+bf6ed459397e307c3ad2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/686bc073.a00a0220.c7b3.0086.GAE@google.com/T/#u Fixes: 87b3593bed18 ("netfilter: flowtable: validate pppoe header") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250707124517.614489-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-03netfilter: conntrack: remove DCCP protocol supportPablo Neira Ayuso
The DCCP socket family has now been removed from this tree, see: 8bb3212be4b4 ("Merge branch 'net-retire-dccp-socket'") Remove connection tracking and NAT support for this protocol, this should not pose a problem because no DCCP traffic is expected to be seen on the wire. As for the code for matching on dccp header for iptables and nftables, mark it as deprecated and keep it in place. Ruleset restoration is an atomic operation. Without dccp matching support, an astray match on dccp could break this operation leaving your computer with no policy in place, so let's follow a more conservative approach for matches. Add CONFIG_NFT_EXTHDR_DCCP which is set to 'n' by default to deprecate dccp extension support. Similarly, label CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_DCCP as deprecated too and also set it to 'n' by default. Code to match on DCCP protocol from ebtables also remains in place, this is just a few checks on IPPROTO_DCCP from _check() path which is exercised when ruleset is loaded. There is another use of IPPROTO_DCCP from the _check() path in the iptables multiport match. Another check for IPPROTO_DCCP from the packet in the reject target is also removed. So let's schedule removal of the dccp matching for a second stage, this should not interfer with the dccp retirement since this is only matching on the dccp header. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-05-23netfilter: nf_tables: Add notifications for hook changesPhil Sutter
Notify user space if netdev hooks are updated due to netdev add/remove events. Send minimal notification messages by introducing NFT_MSG_NEWDEV/DELDEV message types describing a single device only. Upon NETDEV_CHANGENAME, the callback has no information about the interface's old name. To provide a clear message to user space, include the hook's stored interface name in the notification. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-05-23netfilter: nf_tables: Have a list of nf_hook_ops in nft_hookPhil Sutter
Supporting a 1:n relationship between nft_hook and nf_hook_ops is convenient since a chain's or flowtable's nft_hooks may remain in place despite matching interfaces disappearing. This stabilizes ruleset dumps in that regard and opens the possibility to claim newly added interfaces which match the spec. Also it prepares for wildcard interface specs since these will potentially match multiple interfaces. All spots dealing with hook registration are updated to handle a list of multiple nf_hook_ops, but nft_netdev_hook_alloc() only adds a single item for now to retain the old behaviour. The only expected functional change here is how vanishing interfaces are handled: Instead of dropping the respective nft_hook, only the matching nf_hook_ops are dropped. To safely remove individual ops from the list in netdev handlers, an rcu_head is added to struct nf_hook_ops so kfree_rcu() may be used. There is at least nft_flowtable_find_dev() which may be iterating through the list at the same time. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-05-23netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce nft_hook_find_ops{,_rcu}()Phil Sutter
Also a pretty dull wrapper around the hook->ops.dev comparison for now. Will search the embedded nf_hook_ops list in future. The ugly cast to eliminate the const qualifier will vanish then, too. Since this future list will be RCU-protected, also introduce an _rcu() variant here. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-05-23netfilter: nf_tables: nft_fib: consistent l3mdev handlingFlorian Westphal
fib has two modes: 1. Obtain output device according to source or destination address 2. Obtain the type of the address, e.g. local, unicast, multicast. 'fib daddr type' should return 'local' if the address is configured in this netns or unicast otherwise. 'fib daddr . iif type' should return 'local' if the address is configured on the input interface or unicast otherwise, i.e. more restrictive. However, if the interface is part of a VRF, then 'fib daddr type' returns unicast even if the address is configured on the incoming interface. This is broken for both ipv4 and ipv6. In the ipv4 case, inet_dev_addr_type must only be used if the 'iif' or 'oif' (strict mode) was requested. Else inet_addr_type_dev_table() needs to be used and the correct dev argument must be passed as well so the correct fib (vrf) table is used. In the ipv6 case, the bug is similar, without strict mode, dev is NULL so .flowi6_l3mdev will be set to 0. Add a new 'nft_fib_l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu()' helper and use that to init the .l3mdev structure member. For ipv6, use it from nft_fib6_flowi_init() which gets called from both the 'type' and the 'route' mode eval functions. This provides consistent behaviour for all modes for both ipv4 and ipv6: If strict matching is requested, the input respectively output device of the netfilter hooks is used. Otherwise, use skb->dev to obtain the l3mdev ifindex. Without this, most type checks in updated nft_fib.sh selftest fail: FAIL: did not find veth0 . 10.9.9.1 . local in fibtype4 FAIL: did not find veth0 . dead:1::1 . local in fibtype6 FAIL: did not find veth0 . dead:9::1 . local in fibtype6 FAIL: did not find tvrf . 10.0.1.1 . local in fibtype4 FAIL: did not find tvrf . 10.9.9.1 . local in fibtype4 FAIL: did not find tvrf . dead:1::1 . local in fibtype6 FAIL: did not find tvrf . dead:9::1 . local in fibtype6 FAIL: fib expression address types match (iif in vrf) (fib errounously returns 'unicast' for all of them, even though all of these addresses are local to the vrf). Fixes: f6d0cbcf09c5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add fib expression") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-03-25Merge tag 'nf-next-25-03-23' of ↵Jakub Kicinski
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== Netfilter updates for net-next The following batch contains Netfilter updates for net-next: 1) Use kvmalloc in xt_hashlimit, from Denis Kirjanov. 2) Tighten nf_conntrack sysctl accepted values for nf_conntrack_max and nf_ct_expect_max, from Nicolas Bouchinet. 3) Avoid lookup in nft_fib if socket is available, from Florian Westphal. 4) Initialize struct lsm_context in nfnetlink_queue to avoid hypothetical ENOMEM errors, Chenyuan Yang. 5) Use strscpy() instead of _pad when initializing xtables table name, kzalloc is already used to initialized the table memory area. From Thorsten Blum. 6) Missing socket lookup by conntrack information for IPv6 traffic in nft_socket, there is a similar chunk in IPv4, this was never added when IPv6 NAT was introduced. From Maxim Mikityanskiy. 7) Fix clang issues with nf_tables CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE, from WangYuli. * tag 'nf-next-25-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next: netfilter: nf_tables: Only use nf_skip_indirect_calls() when MITIGATION_RETPOLINE netfilter: socket: Lookup orig tuple for IPv6 SNAT netfilter: xtables: Use strscpy() instead of strscpy_pad() netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: Initialize ctx to avoid memory allocation error netfilter: fib: avoid lookup if socket is available netfilter: conntrack: Bound nf_conntrack sysctl writes netfilter: xt_hashlimit: replace vmalloc calls with kvmalloc ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250323100922.59983-1-pablo@netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-03-21netfilter: fib: avoid lookup if socket is availableFlorian Westphal
In case the fib match is used from the input hook we can avoid the fib lookup if early demux assigned a socket for us: check that the input interface matches sk-cached one. Rework the existing 'lo bypass' logic to first check sk, then for loopback interface type to elide the fib lookup. This speeds up fib matching a little, before: 93.08 GBit/s (no rules at all) 75.1 GBit/s ("fib saddr . iif oif missing drop" in prerouting) 75.62 GBit/s ("fib saddr . iif oif missing drop" in input) After: 92.48 GBit/s (no rules at all) 75.62 GBit/s (fib rule in prerouting) 90.37 GBit/s (fib rule in input). Numbers for the 'no rules' and 'prerouting' are expected to closely match in-between runs, the 3rd/input test case exercises the the 'avoid lookup if cached ifindex in sk matches' case. Test used iperf3 via veth interface, lo can't be used due to existing loopback test. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-03-06netfilter: nf_tables: make destruction work queue pernetFlorian Westphal
The call to flush_work before tearing down a table from the netlink notifier was supposed to make sure that all earlier updates (e.g. rule add) that might reference that table have been processed. Unfortunately, flush_work() waits for the last queued instance. This could be an instance that is different from the one that we must wait for. This is because transactions are protected with a pernet mutex, but the work item is global, so holding the transaction mutex doesn't prevent another netns from queueing more work. Make the work item pernet so that flush_work() will wait for all transactions queued from this netns. A welcome side effect is that we no longer need to wait for transaction objects from foreign netns. The gc work queue is still global. This seems to be ok because nft_set structures are reference counted and each container structure owns a reference on the net namespace. The destroy_list is still protected by a global spinlock rather than pernet one but the hold time is very short anyway. v2: call cancel_work_sync before reaping the remaining tables (Pablo). Fixes: 9f6958ba2e90 ("netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally flush pending work before notifier") Reported-by: syzbot+5d8c5789c8cb076b2c25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-01-19netfilter: flowtable: add CLOSING statePablo Neira Ayuso
tcp rst/fin packet triggers an immediate teardown of the flow which results in sending flows back to the classic forwarding path. This behaviour was introduced by: da5984e51063 ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: add support for sending flows back to the slow path") b6f27d322a0a ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: tear down TCP flows if RST or FIN was seen") whose goal is to expedite removal of flow entries from the hardware table. Before these patches, the flow was released after the flow entry timed out. However, this approach leads to packet races when restoring the conntrack state as well as late flow re-offload situations when the TCP connection is ending. This patch adds a new CLOSING state that is is entered when tcp rst/fin packet is seen. This allows for an early removal of the flow entry from the hardware table. But the flow entry still remains in software, so tcp packets to shut down the flow are not sent back to slow path. If syn packet is seen from this new CLOSING state, then this flow enters teardown state, ct state is set to TCP_CONNTRACK_CLOSE state and packet is sent to slow path, so this TCP reopen scenario can be handled by conntrack. TCP_CONNTRACK_CLOSE provides a small timeout that aims at quickly releasing this stale entry from the conntrack table. Moreover, skip hardware re-offload from flowtable software packet if the flow is in CLOSING state. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-01-19netfilter: conntrack: rework offload nf_conn timeout extension logicFlorian Westphal
Offload nf_conn entries may not see traffic for a very long time. To prevent incorrect 'ct is stale' checks during nf_conntrack table lookup, the gc worker extends the timeout nf_conn entries marked for offload to a large value. The existing logic suffers from a few problems. Garbage collection runs without locks, its unlikely but possible that @ct is removed right after the 'offload' bit test. In that case, the timeout of a new/reallocated nf_conn entry will be increased. Prevent this by obtaining a reference count on the ct object and re-check of the confirmed and offload bits. If those are not set, the ct is being removed, skip the timeout extension in this case. Parallel teardown is also problematic: cpu1 cpu2 gc_worker calls flow_offload_teardown() tests OFFLOAD bit, set clear OFFLOAD bit ct->timeout is repaired (e.g. set to timeout[UDP_CT_REPLIED]) nf_ct_offload_timeout() called expire value is fetched <INTERRUPT> -> NF_CT_DAY timeout for flow that isn't offloaded (and might not see any further packets). Use cmpxchg: if ct->timeout was repaired after the 2nd 'offload bit' test passed, then ct->timeout will only be updated of ct->timeout was not altered in between. As we already have a gc worker for flowtable entries, ct->timeout repair can be handled from the flowtable gc worker. This avoids having flowtable specific logic in the conntrack core and avoids checking entries that were never offloaded. This allows to remove the nf_ct_offload_timeout helper. Its safe to use in the add case, but not on teardown. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-01-19netfilter: conntrack: remove skb argument from nf_ct_refreshFlorian Westphal
Its not used (and could be NULL), so remove it. This allows to use nf_ct_refresh in places where we don't have an skb without having to double-check that skb == NULL would be safe. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-01-19netfilter: nf_tables: Tolerate chains with no remaining hooksPhil Sutter
Do not drop a netdev-family chain if the last interface it is registered for vanishes. Users dumping and storing the ruleset upon shutdown to restore it upon next boot may otherwise lose the chain and all contained rules. They will still lose the list of devices, a later patch will fix that. For now, this aligns the event handler's behaviour with that for flowtables. The controversal situation at netns exit should be no problem here: event handler will unregister the hooks, core nftables cleanup code will drop the chain itself. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-01-19netfilter: nf_tables: Store user-defined hook ifnamePhil Sutter
Prepare for hooks with NULL ops.dev pointer (due to non-existent device) and store the interface name and length as specified by the user upon creation. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-01-19netfilter: nf_tables: fix set size with rbtree backendPablo Neira Ayuso
The existing rbtree implementation uses singleton elements to represent ranges, however, userspace provides a set size according to the number of ranges in the set. Adjust provided userspace set size to the number of singleton elements in the kernel by multiplying the range by two. Check if the no-match all-zero element is already in the set, in such case release one slot in the set size. Fixes: 0ed6389c483d ("netfilter: nf_tables: rename set implementations") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-01-09netfilter: conntrack: add conntrack event timestampFlorian Westphal
Nadia Pinaeva writes: I am working on a tool that allows collecting network performance metrics by using conntrack events. Start time of a conntrack entry is used to evaluate seen_reply latency, therefore the sooner it is timestamped, the better the precision is. In particular, when using this tool to compare the performance of the same feature implemented using iptables/nftables/OVS it is crucial to have the entry timestamped earlier to see any difference. At this time, conntrack events can only get timestamped at recv time in userspace, so there can be some delay between the event being generated and the userspace process consuming the message. There is sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp, which adds a 64bit timestamp (ns resolution) that records start and stop times, but its not suited for this either, start time is the 'hashtable insertion time', not 'conntrack allocation time'. There is concern that moving the start-time moment to conntrack allocation will add overhead in case of flooding, where conntrack entries are allocated and released right away without getting inserted into the hashtable. Also, even if this was changed it would not with events other than new (start time) and destroy (stop time). Pablo suggested to add new CTA_TIMESTAMP_EVENT, this adds this feature. The timestamp is recorded in case both events are requested and the sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp toggle is enabled. Reported-by: Nadia Pinaeva <n.m.pinaeva@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2025-01-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.13-rc6). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: include/linux/if_vlan.h f91a5b808938 ("af_packet: fix vlan_get_protocol_dgram() vs MSG_PEEK") 3f330db30638 ("net: reformat kdoc return statements") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-12-25netfilter: nft_set_hash: unaligned atomic read on struct nft_set_extPablo Neira Ayuso
Access to genmask field in struct nft_set_ext results in unaligned atomic read: [ 72.130109] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff0000c2bb708c [ 72.131036] Mem abort info: [ 72.131213] ESR = 0x0000000096000021 [ 72.131446] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 72.132209] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 72.133216] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 72.134080] FSC = 0x21: alignment fault [ 72.135593] Data abort info: [ 72.137194] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000021, ISS2 = 0x00000000 [ 72.142351] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 [ 72.145989] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0 [ 72.150115] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000237d27000 [ 72.154893] [ffff0000c2bb708c] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=180000023ffff403, pud=180000023f84b403, pmd=180000023f835403, +pte=0068000102bb7707 [ 72.163021] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000021 [#1] SMP [...] [ 72.170041] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/7:0 Tainted: G E 6.13.0-rc3+ #2 [ 72.170509] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE [ 72.170720] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-stable202302-for-qemu 03/01/2023 [ 72.171192] Workqueue: events_power_efficient nft_rhash_gc [nf_tables] [ 72.171552] pstate: 21400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 72.171915] pc : nft_rhash_gc+0x200/0x2d8 [nf_tables] [ 72.172166] lr : nft_rhash_gc+0x128/0x2d8 [nf_tables] [ 72.172546] sp : ffff800081f2bce0 [ 72.172724] x29: ffff800081f2bd40 x28: ffff0000c2bb708c x27: 0000000000000038 [ 72.173078] x26: ffff0000c6780ef0 x25: ffff0000c643df00 x24: ffff0000c6778f78 [ 72.173431] x23: 000000000000001a x22: ffff0000c4b1f000 x21: ffff0000c6780f78 [ 72.173782] x20: ffff0000c2bb70dc x19: ffff0000c2bb7080 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 72.174135] x17: ffff0000c0a4e1c0 x16: 0000000000003000 x15: 0000ac26d173b978 [ 72.174485] x14: ffffffffffffffff x13: 0000000000000030 x12: ffff0000c6780ef0 [ 72.174841] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffff800081f2bcf8 x9 : ffff0000c3000000 [ 72.175193] x8 : 00000000000004be x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000 [ 72.175544] x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : ffff0000c3000010 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 72.175871] x2 : 0000000000003a98 x1 : ffff0000c2bb708c x0 : 0000000000000004 [ 72.176207] Call trace: [ 72.176316] nft_rhash_gc+0x200/0x2d8 [nf_tables] (P) [ 72.176653] process_one_work+0x178/0x3d0 [ 72.176831] worker_thread+0x200/0x3f0 [ 72.176995] kthread+0xe8/0xf8 [ 72.177130] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 [ 72.177289] Code: 54fff984 d503201f d2800080 91003261 (f820303f) [ 72.177557] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Align struct nft_set_ext to word size to address this and documentation it. pahole reports that this increases the size of elements for rhash and pipapo in 8 bytes on x86_64. Fixes: 7ffc7481153b ("netfilter: nft_set_hash: skip duplicated elements pending gc run") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-12-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.13-rc3). No conflicts or adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-12-11netfilter: nf_tables: do not defer rule destruction via call_rcuFlorian Westphal
nf_tables_chain_destroy can sleep, it can't be used from call_rcu callbacks. Moreover, nf_tables_rule_release() is only safe for error unwinding, while transaction mutex is held and the to-be-desroyed rule was not exposed to either dataplane or dumps, as it deactives+frees without the required synchronize_rcu() in-between. nft_rule_expr_deactivate() callbacks will change ->use counters of other chains/sets, see e.g. nft_lookup .deactivate callback, these must be serialized via transaction mutex. Also add a few lockdep asserts to make this more explicit. Calling synchronize_rcu() isn't ideal, but fixing this without is hard and way more intrusive. As-is, we can get: WARNING: .. net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5515 nft_set_destroy+0x.. Workqueue: events nf_tables_trans_destroy_work RIP: 0010:nft_set_destroy+0x3fe/0x5c0 Call Trace: <TASK> nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x6b7/0xad0 process_one_work+0x64a/0xce0 worker_thread+0x613/0x10d0 In case the synchronize_rcu becomes an issue, we can explore alternatives. One way would be to allocate nft_trans_rule objects + one nft_trans_chain object, deactivate the rules + the chain and then defer the freeing to the nft destroy workqueue. We'd still need to keep the synchronize_rcu path as a fallback to handle -ENOMEM corner cases though. Reported-by: syzbot+b26935466701e56cfdc2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67478d92.050a0220.253251.0062.GAE@google.com/T/ Fixes: c03d278fdf35 ("netfilter: nf_tables: wait for rcu grace period on net_device removal") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-12-09net: reformat kdoc return statementsJakub Kicinski
kernel-doc -Wall warns about missing Return: statement for non-void functions. We have a number of kdocs in our headers which are missing the colon, IOW they use * Return some value or * Returns some value Having the colon makes some sense, it should help kdoc parser avoid false positives. So add them. This is mostly done with a sed script, and removing the unnecessary cases (mostly the comments which aren't kdoc). Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Acked-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241205165914.1071102-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-12-03netfilter: nft_inner: incorrect percpu area handling under softirqPablo Neira Ayuso
Softirq can interrupt ongoing packet from process context that is walking over the percpu area that contains inner header offsets. Disable bh and perform three checks before restoring the percpu inner header offsets to validate that the percpu area is valid for this skbuff: 1) If the NFT_PKTINFO_INNER_FULL flag is set on, then this skbuff has already been parsed before for inner header fetching to register. 2) Validate that the percpu area refers to this skbuff using the skbuff pointer as a cookie. If there is a cookie mismatch, then this skbuff needs to be parsed again. 3) Finally, validate if the percpu area refers to this tunnel type. Only after these three checks the percpu area is restored to a on-stack copy and bh is enabled again. After inner header fetching, the on-stack copy is stored back to the percpu area. Fixes: 3a07327d10a0 ("netfilter: nft_inner: support for inner tunnel header matching") Reported-by: syzbot+84d0441b9860f0d63285@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-11-14netfilter: nf_tables: allocate element update information dynamicallyFlorian Westphal
Move the timeout/expire/flag members from nft_trans_one_elem struct into a dybamically allocated structure, only needed when timeout update was requested. This halves size of nft_trans_one_elem struct and allows to compact up to 124 elements in one transaction container rather than 62. This halves memory requirements for a large flush or insert transaction, where ->update remains NULL. Care has to be taken to release the extra data in all spots, including abort path. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-11-14netfilter: nf_tables: prepare for multiple elements in nft_trans_elem structureFlorian Westphal
Add helpers to release the individual elements contained in the trans_elem container structure. No functional change intended. Followup patch will add 'nelems' member and will turn 'priv' into a flexible array. These helpers can then loop over all elements. Care needs to be taken to handle a mix of new elements and existing elements that are being updated (e.g. timeout refresh). Before this patch, NEWSETELEM transaction with update is released early so nft_trans_set_elem_destroy() won't get called, so we need to skip elements marked as update. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-11-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.12-rc7). Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c e15c5506dd39 ("net: enetc: allocate vf_state during PF probes") 3774409fd4c6 ("net: enetc: build enetc_pf_common.c as a separate module") https://lore.kernel.org/20241105114100.118bd35e@canb.auug.org.au Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c de794169cf17 ("net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix multi queue Rx on J7") 4a7b2ba94a59 ("net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Use tstats instead of open coded version") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-11-07netfilter: nf_tables: wait for rcu grace period on net_device removalPablo Neira Ayuso
8c873e219970 ("netfilter: core: free hooks with call_rcu") removed synchronize_net() call when unregistering basechain hook, however, net_device removal event handler for the NFPROTO_NETDEV was not updated to wait for RCU grace period. Note that 835b803377f5 ("netfilter: nf_tables_netdev: unregister hooks on net_device removal") does not remove basechain rules on device removal, I was hinted to remove rules on net_device removal later, see 5ebe0b0eec9d ("netfilter: nf_tables: destroy basechain and rules on netdevice removal"). Although NETDEV_UNREGISTER event is guaranteed to be handled after synchronize_net() call, this path needs to wait for rcu grace period via rcu callback to release basechain hooks if netns is alive because an ongoing netlink dump could be in progress (sockets hold a reference on the netns). Note that nf_tables_pre_exit_net() unregisters and releases basechain hooks but it is possible to see NETDEV_UNREGISTER at a later stage in the netns exit path, eg. veth peer device in another netns: cleanup_net() default_device_exit_batch() unregister_netdevice_many_notify() notifier_call_chain() nf_tables_netdev_event() __nft_release_basechain() In this particular case, same rule of thumb applies: if netns is alive, then wait for rcu grace period because netlink dump in the other netns could be in progress. Otherwise, if the other netns is going away then no netlink dump can be in progress and basechain hooks can be released inmediately. While at it, turn WARN_ON() into WARN_ON_ONCE() for the basechain validation, which should not ever happen. Fixes: 835b803377f5 ("netfilter: nf_tables_netdev: unregister hooks on net_device removal") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-11-05netfilter: nf_tables: avoid false-positive lockdep splats with flowtablesFlorian Westphal
The transaction mutex prevents concurrent add/delete, its ok to iterate those lists outside of rcu read side critical sections. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-10-02move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.hAl Viro
asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h; might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header. auto-generated by the following: for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i done for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i done git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
2024-09-03netfilter: nf_tables: set element timeout update supportPablo Neira Ayuso
Store new timeout and expiration in transaction object, use them to update elements from .commit path. Otherwise, discard update if .abort path is exercised. Use update_flags in the transaction to note whether the timeout, expiration, or both need to be updated. Annotate access to timeout extension now that it can be updated while lockless read access is possible. Reject timeout updates on elements with no timeout extension. Element transaction remains in the 96 bytes kmalloc slab on x86_64 after this update. This patch requires ("netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout") to make sure an element does not expire while transaction is ongoing. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-09-03netfilter: nf_tables: zero timeout means element never times outPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch uses zero as timeout marker for those elements that never expire when the element is created. If userspace provides no timeout for an element, then the default set timeout applies. However, if no default set timeout is specified and timeout flag is set on, then timeout extension is allocated and timeout is set to zero to allow for future updates. Use of zero a never timeout marker has been suggested by Phil Sutter. Note that, in older kernels, it is already possible to define elements that never expire by declaring a set with the set timeout flag set on and no global set timeout, in this case, new element with no explicit timeout never expire do not allocate the timeout extension, hence, they never expire. This approach makes it complicated to accomodate element timeout update, because element extensions do not support reallocations. Therefore, allocate the timeout extension and use the new marker for this case, but do not expose it to userspace to retain backward compatibility in the set listing. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-09-03netfilter: nf_tables: consolidate timeout extension for elementsPablo Neira Ayuso
Expiration and timeout are stored in separated set element extensions, but they are tightly coupled. Consolidate them in a single extension to simplify and prepare for set element updates. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-09-03netfilter: nf_tables: annotate data-races around element expirationPablo Neira Ayuso
element expiration can be read-write locklessly, it can be written by dynset and read from netlink dump, add annotation. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-09-03netfilter: nf_tables: Add missing Kernel docSimon Horman
- Add missing documentation of struct field and enum items. - Add missing documentation of function parameter. Flagged by ./scripts/kernel-doc -none. No functional change intended. Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-09-03netfilter: nf_tables: Correct spelling in nf_tables.hSimon Horman
Correct spelling in nf_tables.h. As reported by codespell. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-09-03netfilter: nf_tables: drop unused 3rd argument from validate callback opsFlorian Westphal
Since commit a654de8fdc18 ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix chain dependency validation") the validate() callback no longer needs the return pointer argument. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-08-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR. Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c 4186c8d9e6af ("net: ftgmac100: Ensure tx descriptor updates are visible") e24a6c874601 ("net: ftgmac100: Get link speed and duplex for NC-SI") https://lore.kernel.org/0b851ec5-f91d-4dd3-99da-e81b98c9ed28@kernel.org net/ipv4/tcp.c bac76cf89816 ("tcp: fix forever orphan socket caused by tcp_abort") edefba66d929 ("tcp: rstreason: introduce SK_RST_REASON_TCP_STATE for active reset") https://lore.kernel.org/20240828112207.5c199d41@canb.auug.org.au No adjacent changes. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240829130829.39148-1-pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-08-27netfilter: nf_tables_ipv6: consider network offset in netdev/egress validationPablo Neira Ayuso
From netdev/egress, skb->len can include the ethernet header, therefore, subtract network offset from skb->len when validating IPv6 packet length. Fixes: 42df6e1d221d ("netfilter: Introduce egress hook") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-08-26netfilter: nf_tables: restore IP sanity checks for netdev/egressPablo Neira Ayuso
Subtract network offset to skb->len before performing IPv4 header sanity checks, then adjust transport offset from offset from mac header. Jorge Ortiz says: When small UDP packets (< 4 bytes payload) are sent from eth0, `meta l4proto udp` condition is not met because `NFT_PKTINFO_L4PROTO` is not set. This happens because there is a comparison that checks if the transport header offset exceeds the total length. This comparison does not take into account the fact that the skb network offset might be non-zero in egress mode (e.g., 14 bytes for Ethernet header). Fixes: 0ae8e4cca787 ("netfilter: nf_tables: set transport offset from mac header for netdev/egress") Reported-by: Jorge Ortiz <jorge.ortiz.escribano@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-08-20netfilter: nf_tables: allow loads only when register is initializedFlorian Westphal
Reject rules where a load occurs from a register that has not seen a store early in the same rule. commit 4c905f6740a3 ("netfilter: nf_tables: initialize registers in nft_do_chain()") had to add a unconditional memset to the nftables register space to avoid leaking stack information to userspace. This memset shows up in benchmarks. After this change, this commit can be reverted again. Note that this breaks userspace compatibility, because theoretically you can do rule 1: reg2 := meta load iif, reg2 == 1 jump ... rule 2: reg2 == 2 jump ... // read access with no store in this rule ... after this change this is rejected. Neither nftables nor iptables-nft generate such rules, each rule is always standalone. This resuts in a small increase of nft_ctx structure by sizeof(long). To cope with hypothetical rulesets like the example above one could emit on-demand "reg[x] = 0" store when generating the datapath blob in nf_tables_commit_chain_prepare(). A patch that does this is linked to below. For now, lets disable this. In nf_tables, a rule is the smallest unit that can be replaced from userspace, i.e. a hypothetical ruleset that relies on earlier initialisations of registers can't be changed at will as register usage would need to be coordinated. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20240627135330.17039-4-fw@strlen.de/ Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2024-08-20netfilter: nf_tables: pass context structure to nft_parse_register_loadFlorian Westphal
Mechanical transformation, no logical changes intended. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>