linux-stable.git/net/ipv6/netfilter.c, branch linux-5.15.y

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

2025-06-27T10:05:12+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: Update ip6_route_me_harder to consider L3 domain

2022-05-09T07:14:41+00:00

commit 8ddffdb9442a9d60b4a6e679ac48d7d21403a674 upstream.

The commit referenced below fixed packet re-routing if Netfilter mangles
a routing key property of a packet and the packet is routed in a VRF L3
domain. The fix, however, addressed IPv4 re-routing, only.

This commit applies the same behavior for IPv6. While at it, untangle
the nested ternary operator to make the code more readable.

Fixes: 6d8b49c3a3a3 ("netfilter: Update ip_route_me_harder to consider L3 domain")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin Willi 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfilter: Dissect flow after packet mangling

2021-04-18T20:04:16+00:00

Netfilter tries to reroute mangled packets as a different route might
need to be used following the mangling. When this happens, netfilter
does not populate the IP protocol, the source port and the destination
port in the flow key. Therefore, FIB rules that match on these fields
are ignored and packets can be misrouted.

Solve this by dissecting the outer flow and populating the flow key
before rerouting the packet. Note that flow dissection only happens when
FIB rules that match on these fields are installed, so in the common
case there should not be a penalty.

Reported-by: Michal Soltys 
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: use actual socket sk rather than skb sk when routing harder

2020-10-30T11:57:39+00:00

If netfilter changes the packet mark when mangling, the packet is
rerouted using the route_me_harder set of functions. Prior to this
commit, there's one big difference between route_me_harder and the
ordinary initial routing functions, described in the comment above
__ip_queue_xmit():

   /* Note: skb->sk can be different from sk, in case of tunnels */
   int __ip_queue_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl,

That function goes on to correctly make use of sk->sk_bound_dev_if,
rather than skb->sk->sk_bound_dev_if. And indeed the comment is true: a
tunnel will receive a packet in ndo_start_xmit with an initial skb->sk.
It will make some transformations to that packet, and then it will send
the encapsulated packet out of a *new* socket. That new socket will
basically always have a different sk_bound_dev_if (otherwise there'd be
a routing loop). So for the purposes of routing the encapsulated packet,
the routing information as it pertains to the socket should come from
that socket's sk, rather than the packet's original skb->sk. For that
reason __ip_queue_xmit() and related functions all do the right thing.

One might argue that all tunnels should just call skb_orphan(skb) before
transmitting the encapsulated packet into the new socket. But tunnels do
*not* do this -- and this is wisely avoided in skb_scrub_packet() too --
because features like TSQ rely on skb->destructor() being called when
that buffer space is truely available again. Calling skb_orphan(skb) too
early would result in buffers filling up unnecessarily and accounting
info being all wrong. Instead, additional routing must take into account
the new sk, just as __ip_queue_xmit() notes.

So, this commit addresses the problem by fishing the correct sk out of
state->sk -- it's already set properly in the call to nf_hook() in
__ip_local_out(), which receives the sk as part of its normal
functionality. So we make sure to plumb state->sk through the various
route_me_harder functions, and then make correct use of it following the
example of __ip_queue_xmit().

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: avoid ipv6 -> nf_defrag_ipv6 module dependency

2020-08-13T02:16:15+00:00

nf_ct_frag6_gather is part of nf_defrag_ipv6.ko, not ipv6 core.

The current use of the netfilter ipv6 stub indirections  causes a module
dependency between ipv6 and nf_defrag_ipv6.

This prevents nf_defrag_ipv6 module from being removed because ipv6 can't
be unloaded.

Remove the indirection and always use a direct call.  This creates a
depency from nf_conntrack_bridge to nf_defrag_ipv6 instead:

modinfo nf_conntrack
depends:        nf_conntrack,nf_defrag_ipv6,bridge

.. and nf_conntrack already depends on nf_defrag_ipv6 anyway.

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

net: ensure correct skb->tstamp in various fragmenters

2019-10-18T17:02:37+00:00

Thomas found that some forwarded packets would be stuck
in FQ packet scheduler because their skb->tstamp contained
timestamps far in the future.

We thought we addressed this point in commit 8203e2d844d3
("net: clear skb->tstamp in forwarding paths") but there
is still an issue when/if a packet needs to be fragmented.

In order to meet EDT requirements, we have to make sure all
fragments get the original skb->tstamp.

Note that this original skb->tstamp should be zero in
forwarding path, but might have a non zero value in
output path if user decided so.

Fixes: fb420d5d91c1 ("tcp/fq: move back to CLOCK_MONOTONIC")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Thomas Bartschies 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netfilter: move nf_bridge_frag_data struct definition to a more appropriate header.

2019-09-13T10:35:33+00:00

There is a struct definition function in nf_conntrack_bridge.h which is
not specific to conntrack and is used elswhere in netfilter.  Move it
into netfilter_bridge.h.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: synproxy: fix building syncookie calls

2019-06-20T09:59:36+00:00

When either CONFIG_IPV6 or CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES are disabled, the kernel
fails to build:

include/linux/netfilter_ipv6.h:180:9: error: implicit declaration of function '__cookie_v6_init_sequence'
      [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        return __cookie_v6_init_sequence(iph, th, mssp);
include/linux/netfilter_ipv6.h:194:9: error: implicit declaration of function '__cookie_v6_check'
      [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        return __cookie_v6_check(iph, th, cookie);
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:237:26: error: use of undeclared identifier '__cookie_v6_init_sequence'; did you mean 'cookie_init_sequence'?
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:238:21: error: use of undeclared identifier '__cookie_v6_check'; did you mean '__cookie_v4_check'?

Fix the IS_ENABLED() checks to match the function declaration
and definitions for these.

Fixes: 3006a5224f15 ("netfilter: synproxy: remove module dependency on IPv6 SYNPROXY")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: synproxy: remove module dependency on IPv6 SYNPROXY

2019-06-17T15:12:09+00:00

This is a prerequisite for the infrastructure module NETFILTER_SYNPROXY.
The new module is needed to avoid duplicated code for the SYNPROXY
nftables support.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: ipv6: Fix undefined symbol nf_ct_frag6_gather

2019-06-06T09:52:59+00:00

CONFIG_NETFILTER=m and CONFIG_NF_DEFRAG_IPV6 is not set

ERROR: "nf_ct_frag6_gather" [net/ipv6/ipv6.ko] undefined!

Fixes: c9bb6165a16e ("netfilter: nf_conntrack_bridge: fix CONFIG_IPV6=y")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Signed-off-by: wenxu 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso