kernel/linux.git/net/bridge/netfilter, branch v6.12.94

netfilter: revalidate bridge ports

2026-06-19T11:42:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit ccb9fd4b87538ccf19ccff78ee26700526d94867 ] ebt_redirect_tg() dereferences br_port_get_rcu() return without a NULL check, causing a kernel panic when the bridge port has been removed between the original hook invocation and an NFQUEUE reinject. A mere NULL check isn't sufficient, however. As sashiko review points out userspace can not only remove the port from the bridge, it could also place the device in a different virtual device, e.g. macvlan. If this happens, we must drop the packet, there is no way for us to reinject it into the bridge path. Switch to _upper API, we don't need the bridge port structure. Also, this fix keeps another bug intact: Both nfnetlink_log and nfnetlink_queue use CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER too aggressive, which prevents certain logging features when queueing in bridge family: NETFILTER_FAMILY_BRIDGE can be enabled while the old CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER cruft is off. Fixes tag is a common ancestor, this was always broken. Fixes: f350a0a87374 ("bridge: use rx_handler_data pointer to store net_bridge_port pointer") Reported-by: Ji'an Zhou Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-6 Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable

2026-06-19T11:42:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit 67ba971ae02514d85818fe0c32549ab4bfa3bf49 ] The ebtables SNAT target keeps the Ethernet source address rewrite behind skb_ensure_writable(skb, 0). This is intentional: at the bridge ebtables hooks the Ethernet header is addressed through skb_mac_header()/eth_hdr(), while skb->data points at the Ethernet payload. Asking skb_ensure_writable() for ETH_HLEN bytes would check the payload, not the Ethernet header, and would reintroduce the small packet regression fixed by commit 63137bc5882a. However, the optional ARP sender hardware address rewrite is different. It writes through skb_store_bits() at an offset relative to skb->data: skb_store_bits(skb, sizeof(struct arphdr), info->mac, ETH_ALEN) skb_header_pointer() only safely reads the ARP header; it does not make the later sender hardware address range writable. If that range is still held in a nonlinear skb fragment backed by a splice-imported file page, skb_store_bits() maps the frag page and copies the new MAC address directly into it. Ensure the ARP SHA range is writable before reading the ARP header and before calling skb_store_bits(). Fixes: 63137bc5882a ("netfilter: ebtables: Fixes dropping of small packets in bridge nat") Reported-by: Yiming Qian Signed-off-by: Yiming Qian Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: ebtables: fix OOB read in compat_mtw_from_user

2026-06-09T10:25:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit f438d1786d657d57790c5d138d6db3fc9fdac392 ] Luxiao Xu says: The function compat_mtw_from_user() converts ebtables extensions from 32-bit user structures to kernel native structures. However, it lacks proper validation of the user-supplied match_size/target_size. When certain extensions are processed, the kernel-side translation logic may perform memory accesses based on the extension's expected size. If the user provides a size smaller than what the extension requires, it results in an out-of-bounds read as reported by KASAN. This fix introduces a check to ensure match_size is at least as large as the extension's required compatsize. This covers matches, watchers, and targets, while maintaining compatibility with standard targets. AFAIU this is relevant for matches that need to go though match->compat_from_user() call. Those that use plain memcpy with the user-provided size are ok because the caller checks that size vs the start of the next rule entry offset (which itself is checked vs. total size copied from userspace). The ->compat_from_user() callbacks assume they can read compatsize bytes, so they need this extra check. Based on an earlier patch from Luxiao Xu. Fixes: 81e675c227ec ("netfilter: ebtables: add CONFIG_COMPAT support") Reported-by: Yuan Tan Reported-by: Yifan Wu Reported-by: Juefei Pu Reported-by: Xin Liu Signed-off-by: Luxiao Xu Signed-off-by: Ren Wei Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY

2026-02-11T12:40:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2bafeb8d2f380c3a81d98bd7b78b854b564f9cd4 ] The -EEXIST error code is reserved by the module loading infrastructure to indicate that a module is already loaded. When a module's init function returns -EEXIST, userspace tools like kmod interpret this as "module already loaded" and treat the operation as successful, returning 0 to the user even though the module initialization actually failed. Replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY to ensure correct error reporting in the module initialization path. Affected modules: * ebtable_broute ebtable_filter ebtable_nat arptable_filter * ip6table_filter ip6table_mangle ip6table_nat ip6table_raw * ip6table_security iptable_filter iptable_mangle iptable_nat * iptable_raw iptable_security Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: bridge: Move specific fragmented packet to slow_path instead of dropping it

2025-06-19T13:31:46+00:00

[ Upstream commit aa04c6f45b9224b949aa35d4fa5f8d0ba07b23d4 ] The config NF_CONNTRACK_BRIDGE will change the bridge forwarding for fragmented packets. The original bridge does not know that it is a fragmented packet and forwards it directly, after NF_CONNTRACK_BRIDGE is enabled, function nf_br_ip_fragment and br_ip6_fragment will check the headroom. In original br_forward, insufficient headroom of skb may indeed exist, but there's still a way to save the skb in the device driver after dev_queue_xmit.So droping the skb will change the original bridge forwarding in some cases. Fixes: 3c171f496ef5 ("netfilter: bridge: add connection tracking system") Signed-off-by: Huajian Yang Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nf_tables: drop unused 3rd argument from validate callback ops

2024-09-03T08:47:17+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: Use kmemdup_array instead of kmemdup for multiple allocation

2024-09-03T08:47:16+00:00

When we are allocating an array, using kmemdup_array() to take care about multiplication and possible overflows. Also it makes auditing the code easier. Signed-off-by: Yan Zhen Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nf_tables: pass context structure to nft_parse_register_load

2024-08-20T10:37:24+00:00

Mechanical transformation, no logical changes intended. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

net: Rename mono_delivery_time to tstamp_type for scalabilty

2024-05-23T21:14:23+00:00

mono_delivery_time was added to check if skb->tstamp has delivery time in mono clock base (i.e. EDT) otherwise skb->tstamp has timestamp in ingress and delivery_time at egress. Renaming the bitfield from mono_delivery_time to tstamp_type is for extensibilty for other timestamps such as userspace timestamp (i.e. SO_TXTIME) set via sock opts. As we are renaming the mono_delivery_time to tstamp_type, it makes sense to start assigning tstamp_type based on enum defined in this commit. Earlier we used bool arg flag to check if the tstamp is mono in function skb_set_delivery_time, Now the signature of the functions accepts tstamp_type to distinguish between mono and real time. Also skb_set_delivery_type_by_clockid is a new function which accepts clockid to determine the tstamp_type. In future tstamp_type:1 can be extended to support userspace timestamp by increasing the bitfield. Signed-off-by: Abhishek Chauhan Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: Martin KaFai Lau Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509211834.3235191-2-quic_abchauha@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau

netfilter: br_netfilter: skip conntrack input hook for promisc packets

2024-04-11T10:09:33+00:00

For historical reasons, when bridge device is in promisc mode, packets that are directed to the taps follow bridge input hook path. This patch adds a workaround to reset conntrack for these packets. Jianbo Liu reports warning splats in their test infrastructure where cloned packets reach the br_netfilter input hook to confirm the conntrack object. Scratch one bit from BR_INPUT_SKB_CB to annotate that this packet has reached the input hook because it is passed up to the bridge device to reach the taps. [ 57.571874] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:616 br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.572749] Modules linked in: xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat xt_addrtype xt_conntrack nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss oid_registry overlay rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_isc si ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5ctl mlx5_core [ 57.575158] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.8.0+ #19 [ 57.575700] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 57.576662] RIP: 0010:br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.577195] Code: fe ff ff 41 bd 04 00 00 00 be 04 00 00 00 e9 4a ff ff ff be 04 00 00 00 48 89 ef e8 f3 a9 3c e1 66 83 ad b4 00 00 00 04 eb 91 <0f> 0b e9 f1 fe ff ff 0f 0b e9 df fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 b3 53 47 e1 [ 57.578722] RSP: 0018:ffff88885f845a08 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 57.579207] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff88812dfe8000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 57.579830] RDX: ffff88885f845a60 RSI: ffff8881022dc300 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 57.580454] RBP: ffff88885f845a60 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000003 [ 57.581076] R10: 00000000ffff1300 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 57.581695] R13: ffff8881047ffe00 R14: ffff888108dbee00 R15: ffff88814519b800 [ 57.582313] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88885f840000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 57.583040] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 57.583564] CR2: 000000c4206aa000 CR3: 0000000103847001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 [ 57.584194] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 57.584820] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 57.585440] Call Trace: [ 57.585721] [ 57.585976] ? __warn+0x7d/0x130 [ 57.586323] ? br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.586811] ? report_bug+0xf1/0x1c0 [ 57.587177] ? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70 [ 57.587539] ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60 [ 57.587929] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ 57.588336] ? br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.588825] nf_hook_slow+0x3d/0xd0 [ 57.589188] ? br_handle_vlan+0x4b/0x110 [ 57.589579] br_pass_frame_up+0xfc/0x150 [ 57.589970] ? br_port_flags_change+0x40/0x40 [ 57.590396] br_handle_frame_finish+0x346/0x5e0 [ 57.590837] ? ipt_do_table+0x32e/0x430 [ 57.591221] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.591656] br_nf_hook_thresh+0x4b/0xf0 [br_netfilter] [ 57.592286] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.592802] br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x178/0x480 [br_netfilter] [ 57.593348] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.593782] ? nf_nat_ipv4_pre_routing+0x25/0x60 [nf_nat] [ 57.594279] br_nf_pre_routing+0x24c/0x550 [br_netfilter] [ 57.594780] ? br_nf_hook_thresh+0xf0/0xf0 [br_netfilter] [ 57.595280] br_handle_frame+0x1f3/0x3d0 [ 57.595676] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.596118] ? br_handle_frame_finish+0x5e0/0x5e0 [ 57.596566] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x25b/0xfc0 [ 57.597017] ? __napi_build_skb+0x37/0x40 [ 57.597418] __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0xfb/0x220 Fixes: 62e7151ae3eb ("netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack") Reported-by: Jianbo Liu Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso