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<title>netfilter: nf_tables: nft_fib: consistent l3mdev handling</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:31:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-21T09:38:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9a119669fb1924cd9658c16da39a5a585e129e50 ]

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-&gt;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 &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: fib: avoid lookup if socket is available</title>
<updated>2025-05-02T05:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-20T13:07:01+00:00</published>
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commit eaaff9b6702e99be5d79135f2afa9fc48a0d59e0 upstream.

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 &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: make destruction work queue pernet</title>
<updated>2025-03-22T19:54:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-06T03:05:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fb8286562ecfb585e26b033c5e32e6fb85efb0b3 ]

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 &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: fix set size with rbtree backend</title>
<updated>2025-02-08T08:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-06T22:40:50+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8d738c1869f611955d91d8d0fd0012d9ef207201 ]

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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nft_set_hash: unaligned atomic read on struct nft_set_ext</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T12:33:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-20T23:29:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 542ed8145e6f9392e3d0a86a0e9027d2ffd183e4 ]

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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: do not defer rule destruction via call_rcu</title>
<updated>2024-12-19T17:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-07T11:14:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b04df3da1b5c6f6dc7cdccc37941740c078c4043 ]

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 -&gt;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:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 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 &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>netfilter: nft_inner: incorrect percpu area handling under softirq</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T19:03:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-27T11:46:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7b1d83da254be3bf054965c8f3b1ad976f460ae5 ]

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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: wait for rcu grace period on net_device removal</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T11:28:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-05T11:07:22+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T19:35:57+00:00</published>
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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
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: set element timeout update support</title>
<updated>2024-09-03T16:19:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-02T23:09:58+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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