linux-stable.git/include/uapi/linux/netfilter, branch v5.15.208

netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks

2026-04-18T08:33:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8f15b5071b4548b0aafc03b366eb45c9c6566704 ]

Replace manual range and mask validations with netlink policy
annotations in ctnetlink code paths, so that the netlink core rejects
invalid values early and can generate extack errors.

- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE: reject values > TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT2 at
  policy level, removing the manual >= TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX check.
- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL/REPLY: reject values > TCP_MAX_WSCALE
  (14). The normal TCP option parsing path already clamps to this value,
  but the ctnetlink path accepted 0-255, causing undefined behavior when
  used as a u32 shift count.
- CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS/REPLY_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with
  CTA_FILTER_F_ALL, removing the manual mask checks.
- CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK, adding
  a new mask define grouping all valid expect flags.

Extracted from a broader nf-next patch by Florian Westphal, scoped to
ctnetlink for the fixes tree.

Fixes: c8e2078cfe41 ("[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: add support for internal tcp connection tracking flags handling")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier 
Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: uapi: NFTA_FLOWTABLE_HOOK is NLA_NESTED

2024-10-17T13:11:20+00:00

[ Upstream commit 76f1ed087b562a469f2153076f179854b749c09a ]

Fix the comment which incorrectly defines it as NLA_U32.

Fixes: 3b49e2e94e6e ("netfilter: nf_tables: add flow table netlink frontend")
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nf_tables: rise cap on SELinux secmark context

2024-08-19T03:44:58+00:00

[ Upstream commit e29630247be24c3987e2b048f8e152771b32d38b ]

secmark context is artificially limited 256 bytes, rise it to 4Kbytes.

Fixes: fb961945457f ("netfilter: nf_tables: add SECMARK support")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nft_compat: reject unused compat flag

2024-02-23T07:54:58+00:00

[ Upstream commit 292781c3c5485ce33bd22b2ef1b2bed709b4d672 ]

Flag (1 << 0) is ignored is set, never used, reject it it with EINVAL
instead.

Fixes: 0ca743a55991 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add compatibility layer for x_tables")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: conntrack: unify established states for SCTP paths

2023-02-01T07:27:30+00:00

commit a44b7651489f26271ac784b70895e8a85d0cebf4 upstream.

An SCTP endpoint can start an association through a path and tear it
down over another one. That means the initial path will not see the
shutdown sequence, and the conntrack entry will remain in ESTABLISHED
state for 5 days.

By merging the HEARTBEAT_ACKED and ESTABLISHED states into one
ESTABLISHED state, there remains no difference between a primary or
secondary path. The timeout for the merged ESTABLISHED state is set to
210 seconds (hb_interval * max_path_retrans + rto_max). So, even if a
path doesn't see the shutdown sequence, it will expire in a reasonable
amount of time.

With this change in place, there is now more than one state from which
we can transition to ESTABLISHED, COOKIE_ECHOED and HEARTBEAT_SENT, so
handle the setting of ASSURED bit whenever a state change has happened
and the new state is ESTABLISHED. Removed the check for dir==REPLY since
the transition to ESTABLISHED can happen only in the reply direction.

Fixes: 9fb9cbb1082d ("[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.")
Signed-off-by: Sriram Yagnaraman 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfilter: xtables: Bring SPDX identifier back

2022-08-17T12:23:42+00:00

[ Upstream commit 20646f5b1e798bcc20044ae90ac3702f177bf254 ]

Commit e2be04c7f995 ("License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to
uapi header files with a license") added the correct SPDX identifier to
include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.h.

A subsequent commit removed it for no reason and reintroduced the UAPI
license incorrectness as the file is now missing the UAPI exception
again.

Add it back and remove the GPLv2 boilerplate while at it.

Fixes: 68983a354a65 ("netfilter: xtables: Add snapshot of hardidletimer target")
Cc: Manoj Basapathi 
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan 
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nft_payload: support for inner header matching / mangling

2022-07-12T14:34:55+00:00

[ Upstream commit c46b38dc8743535e686b911d253a844f0bd50ead ]

Allow to match and mangle on inner headers / payload data after the
transport header. There is a new field in the pktinfo structure that
stores the inner header offset which is calculated only when requested.
Only TCP and UDP supported at this stage.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: ctnetlink: disable helper autoassign

2022-02-16T11:56:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit d1ca60efc53d665cf89ed847a14a510a81770b81 ]

When userspace, e.g. conntrackd, inserts an entry with a specified helper,
its possible that the helper is lost immediately after its added:

ctnetlink_create_conntrack
  -> nf_ct_helper_ext_add + assign helper
    -> ctnetlink_setup_nat
      -> ctnetlink_parse_nat_setup
         -> parse_nat_setup -> nfnetlink_parse_nat_setup
	                       -> nf_nat_setup_info
                                 -> nf_conntrack_alter_reply
                                   -> __nf_ct_try_assign_helper

... and __nf_ct_try_assign_helper will zero the helper again.

Set IPS_HELPER bit to bypass auto-assign logic, its unwanted, just like
when helper is assigned via ruleset.

Dropped old 'not strictly necessary' comment, it referred to use of
rcu_assign_pointer() before it got replaced by RCU_INIT_POINTER().

NB: Fixes tag intentionally incorrect, this extends the referenced commit,
but this change won't build without IPS_HELPER introduced there.

Fixes: 6714cf5465d280 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix explicit helper attachment and NAT")
Reported-by: Pham Thanh Tuyen 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf

2021-09-03T23:20:37+00:00

Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter fixes for net

1) Protect nft_ct template with global mutex, from Pavel Skripkin.

2) Two recent commits switched inet rt and nexthop exception hashes
   from jhash to siphash. If those two spots are problematic then
   conntrack is affected as well, so switch voer to siphash too.
   While at it, add a hard upper limit on chain lengths and reject
   insertion if this is hit. Patches from Florian Westphal.

3) Fix use-after-scope in nf_socket_ipv6 reported by KASAN,
   from Benjamin Hesmans.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf:
  netfilter: socket: icmp6: fix use-after-scope
  netfilter: refuse insertion if chain has grown too large
  netfilter: conntrack: switch to siphash
  netfilter: conntrack: sanitize table size default settings
  netfilter: nft_ct: protect nft_ct_pcpu_template_refcnt with mutex
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210903163020.13741-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netfilter: refuse insertion if chain has grown too large

2021-08-30T09:52:21+00:00

Also add a stat counter for this that gets exported both via old /proc
interface and ctnetlink.

Assuming the old default size of 16536 buckets and max hash occupancy of
64k, this results in 128k insertions (origin+reply), so ~8 entries per
chain on average.

The revised settings in this series will result in about two entries per
bucket on average.

This allows a hard-limit ceiling of 64.

This is not tunable at the moment, but its possible to either increase
nf_conntrack_buckets or decrease nf_conntrack_max to reduce average
lengths.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso