linux-stable.git/include/uapi/linux/netfilter, branch v6.1.185

netfilter: bitwise: rename some boolean operation functions

2026-08-23T12:18:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit a12143e6084c502fc3cfaa8b717bffc8c14cf806 ]

In the next patch we add support for doing AND, OR and XOR operations
directly in the kernel, so rename some functions and an enum constant
related to mask-and-xor boolean operations.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Stable-dep-of: d07955dd34ec ("netfilter: nft_fib: reject fib expression on the netdev egress hook")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks

2026-04-11T12:16:09+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

2024-10-17T13:21:31+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

2024-08-03T06:49:07+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

2024-02-16T18:06:28+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: nft_exthdr: add boolean DCCP option matching

2023-12-13T17:39:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit b9f9a485fb0eb80b0e2b90410b28cbb9b0e85687 ]

The xt_dccp iptables module supports the matching of DCCP packets based
on the presence or absence of DCCP options.  Extend nft_exthdr to add
this functionality to nftables.

Link: https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Stable-dep-of: 63331e37fb22 ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix 'exist' matching on bigendian arches")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: conntrack: unify established states for SCTP paths

2023-02-01T07:34:51+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

headers: Remove some left-over license text in include/uapi/linux/netfilter/

2022-09-21T08:44:56+00:00

When the SPDX-License-Identifier tag has been added, the corresponding
license text has not been removed.

Remove it now.

Also, in xt_connmark.h, move the copyright text at the top of the file
which is a much more common pattern.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

Merge tag 'spdx-6.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx

2022-08-04T19:12:54+00:00

Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of SPDX comment updates for 6.0-rc1.

  Nothing huge here, just a number of updated SPDX license tags and
  cleanups based on the review of a number of common patterns in GPLv2
  boilerplate text.

  Also included in here are a few other minor updates, two USB files,
  and one Documentation file update to get the SPDX lines correct.

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a very long time"

* tag 'spdx-6.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx: (28 commits)
  Documentation: samsung-s3c24xx: Add blank line after SPDX directive
  x86/crypto: Remove stray comment terminator
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_406.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_398.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_391.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_390.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_385.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_320.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_319.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_318.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_298.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_292.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_179.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_168.RULE (part 2)
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_168.RULE (part 1)
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_160.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_152.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_149.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_147.RULE
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_133.RULE
  ...

treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members

2022-06-28T19:26:05+00:00

There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].

This code was transformed with the help of Coccinelle:
(linux-5.19-rc2$ spatch --jobs $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --sp-file script.cocci --include-headers --dir . > output.patch)

@@
identifier S, member, array;
type T1, T2;
@@

struct S {
  ...
  T1 member;
  T2 array[
- 0
  ];
};

-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 is coming and we need to land these changes
to prevent issues like these in the short future:

../fs/minix/dir.c:337:3: warning: 'strcpy' will always overflow; destination buffer has size 0,
but the source string has length 2 (including NUL byte) [-Wfortify-source]
		strcpy(de3->name, ".");
		^

Since these are all [0] to [] changes, the risk to UAPI is nearly zero. If
this breaks anything, we can use a union with a new member name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Build-tested-by: kernel test robot 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/62b675ec.wKX6AOZ6cbE71vtF%25lkp@intel.com/
Acked-by: Dan Williams  # For ndctl.h
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva