kernel/linux.git/net/ipv4/netfilter, branch v6.19.11

netfilter: nf_reject: don't reply to icmp error messages

2025-09-11T13:40:55+00:00

tcp reject code won't reply to a tcp reset. But the icmp reject 'netdev' family versions will reply to icmp dst-unreach errors, unlike icmp_send() and icmp6_send() which are used by the inet family implementation (and internally by the REJECT target). Check for the icmp(6) type and do not respond if its an unreachable error. Without this, something like 'ip protocol icmp reject', when used in a netdev chain attached to 'lo', cause a packet loop. Same for two hosts that both use such a rule: each error packet will be replied to. Such situation persist until the (bogus) rule is amended to ratelimit or checks the icmp type before the reject statement. As the inet versions don't do this make the netdev ones follow along. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

netfilter: nf_reject: remove unneeded exports

2025-09-02T13:28:17+00:00

These functions have no external callers and can be static. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

ipv4: Convert ->flowi4_tos to dscp_t.

2025-08-27T00:34:31+00:00

Convert the ->flowic_tos field of struct flowi_common from __u8 to dscp_t, rename it ->flowic_dscp and propagate these changes to struct flowi and struct flowi4. We've had several bugs in the past where ECN bits could interfere with IPv4 routing, because these bits were not properly cleared when setting ->flowi4_tos. These bugs should be fixed now and the dscp_t type has been introduced to ensure that variables carrying DSCP values don't accidentally have any ECN bits set. Several variables and structure fields have been converted to dscp_t already, but the main IPv4 routing structure, struct flowi4, is still using a __u8. To avoid any future regression, this patch converts it to dscp_t. There are many users to convert at once. Fortunately, around half of ->flowi4_tos users already have a dscp_t value at hand, which they currently convert to __u8 using inet_dscp_to_dsfield(). For all of these users, we just need to drop that conversion. But, although we try to do the __u8 <-> dscp_t conversions at the boundaries of the network or of user space, some places still store TOS/DSCP variables as __u8 in core networking code. Those can hardly be converted either because the data structure is part of UAPI or because the same variable or field is also used for handling ECN in other parts of the code. In all of these cases where we don't have a dscp_t variable at hand, we need to use inet_dsfield_to_dscp() when interacting with ->flowi4_dscp. Changes since v1: * Fix space alignment in __bpf_redirect_neigh_v4() (Ido). Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/29acecb45e911d17446b9a3dbdb1ab7b821ea371.1756128932.git.gnault@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: Don't pass hashinfo to socket lookup helpers.

2025-08-26T00:53:35+00:00

These socket lookup functions required struct inet_hashinfo because they are shared by TCP and DCCP. * __inet_lookup_established() * __inet_lookup_listener() * __inet6_lookup_established() * inet6_lookup_listener() DCCP has gone, and we don't need to pass hashinfo down to them. Let's fetch net->ipv4.tcp_death_row.hashinfo directly in the above 4 functions. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250822190803.540788-5-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netfilter: nf_reject: don't leak dst refcount for loopback packets

2025-08-21T17:02:00+00:00

recent patches to add a WARN() when replacing skb dst entry found an old bug: WARNING: include/linux/skbuff.h:1165 skb_dst_check_unset include/linux/skbuff.h:1164 [inline] WARNING: include/linux/skbuff.h:1165 skb_dst_set include/linux/skbuff.h:1210 [inline] WARNING: include/linux/skbuff.h:1165 nf_reject_fill_skb_dst+0x2a4/0x330 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c:234 [..] Call Trace: nf_send_unreach+0x17b/0x6e0 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c:325 nft_reject_inet_eval+0x4bc/0x690 net/netfilter/nft_reject_inet.c:27 expr_call_ops_eval net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:237 [inline] .. This is because blamed commit forgot about loopback packets. Such packets already have a dst_entry attached, even at PRE_ROUTING stage. Instead of checking hook just check if the skb already has a route attached to it. Fixes: f53b9b0bdc59 ("netfilter: introduce support for reject at prerouting stage") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250820123707.10671-1-fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netfilter: add back NETFILTER_XTABLES dependencies

2025-08-07T11:19:25+00:00

Some Kconfig symbols were changed to depend on the 'bool' symbol NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY, which means they can now be set to built-in when the xtables code itself is in a loadable module: x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `arpt_unregister_table_pre_exit': (.text+0x1831987): undefined reference to `xt_find_table' x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `get_info.constprop.0': arp_tables.c:(.text+0x1831aab): undefined reference to `xt_request_find_table_lock' x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x1831bea): undefined reference to `xt_table_unlock' x86_64-linux-ld: vmlinux.o: in function `do_arpt_get_ctl': arp_tables.c:(.text+0x183205d): undefined reference to `xt_find_table_lock' x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x18320c1): undefined reference to `xt_table_unlock' x86_64-linux-ld: arp_tables.c:(.text+0x183219a): undefined reference to `xt_recseq' Change these to depend on both NETFILTER_XTABLES and NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Fixes: 9fce66583f06 ("netfilter: Exclude LEGACY TABLES on PREEMPT_RT.") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Florian Westphal Tested-by: Breno Leitao Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: Exclude LEGACY TABLES on PREEMPT_RT.

2025-07-25T16:38:50+00:00

The seqcount xt_recseq is used to synchronize the replacement of xt_table::private in xt_replace_table() against all readers such as ipt_do_table() To ensure that there is only one writer, the writing side disables bottom halves. The sequence counter can be acquired recursively. Only the first invocation modifies the sequence counter (signaling that a writer is in progress) while the following (recursive) writer does not modify the counter. The lack of a proper locking mechanism for the sequence counter can lead to live lock on PREEMPT_RT if the high prior reader preempts the writer. Additionally if the per-CPU lock on PREEMPT_RT is removed from local_bh_disable() then there is no synchronisation for the per-CPU sequence counter. The affected code is "just" the legacy netfilter code which is replaced by "netfilter tables". That code can be disabled without sacrificing functionality because everything is provided by the newer implementation. This will only requires the usage of the "-nft" tools instead of the "-legacy" ones. The long term plan is to remove the legacy code so lets accelerate the progress. Relax dependencies on iptables legacy, replace select with depends on, this should cause no harm to existing kernel configs and users can still toggle IP{6}_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY in any case. Make EBTABLES_LEGACY, IPTABLES_LEGACY and ARPTABLES depend on NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Hide xt_recseq and its users, xt_register_table() and xt_percpu_counter_alloc() behind NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Let NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY depend on !PREEMPT_RT. This will break selftest expecing the legacy options enabled and will be addressed in a following patch. Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal Co-developed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nf_dup{4, 6}: Move duplication check to task_struct

2025-05-23T11:57:12+00:00

nf_skb_duplicated is a per-CPU variable and relies on disabled BH for its locking. Without per-CPU locking in local_bh_disable() on PREEMPT_RT this data structure requires explicit locking. Due to the recursion involved, the simplest change is to make it a per-task variable. Move the per-CPU variable nf_skb_duplicated to task_struct and name it in_nf_duplicate. Add it to the existing bitfield so it doesn't use additional memory. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: Dietmar Eggemann Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ben Segall Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Valentin Schneider Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nf_tables: nft_fib: consistent l3mdev handling

2025-05-23T11:57:09+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: fib: avoid lookup if socket is available

2025-03-21T09:12:15+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso