linux-stable.git/net/netfilter/ipvs, branch master

ipvs: fix integer overflow in ftp helper port/address parsing

2026-08-17T22:56:43+00:00

ip_vs_ftp_get_addrport() accumulates decimal digits into a __u16
(hport) and into unsigned char (p[]) without checking for overflow.
A crafted FTP PASV/EPSV response with an over-long port or address
octet wraps the value, so the helper configures the data connection
with a truncated port/address.

The netfilter conntrack FTP helper had the same defect, fixed in
commit 2b413fc689ba ("netfilter: nf_conntrack_ftp: avoid u16
overflows"). Apply the equivalent fix here: widen the port accumulator
to u32 and reject values above 65535, and reject address octets above
255.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Joas Antonio dos Santos 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-08-13T18:00:14+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.2-rc8).

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes:

drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/ngbe/ngbe_main.c
  5f3a13e0bb5e ("net: ngbe: fix NULL pointer dereference in non-MSI-X interrupt enabling")
  d661abdc30c2 ("net: ngbe: correct misleading interrupt comment")

drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c
  e16e960d55a4 ("ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev")
  00a40d809207 ("ipvlan: Support per-netns netdev unregistration.")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access

2026-08-10T18:27:15+00:00

While the outer IP header is already pulled into the skb head,
we must be careful and revalidate the embedded headers after
reading them from the skb frags to prevent out-of-bounds
access.

One such place reported by Sashiko is ip_vs_nat_icmp() where
local process can change the ihl field and after
skb_ensure_writable() we can see larger value which is a
problem for the ip_send_check(cih) calls.

Add check to drop the packet if the ihl field is changed.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260730183506.87473-1-ja%40ssi.bg
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipvs: clear IPv4 options after rebasing tunnel ICMP errors

2026-08-10T18:27:07+00:00

ip_vs_in_icmp() rebases an skb from the outer ICMP packet to the
quoted original request before passing it to icmp_send(). However,
IPCB(skb)->opt still describes the outer IPv4 header.

A timestamp option in the outer header can therefore leave an offset
that points into the quoted transport header after the rebase.
__ip_options_echo() treats a byte at that stale location as the option
length and copies it into the fixed-size option storage on the
__icmp_send() stack, causing a stack out-of-bounds write.

Clear the stale option metadata after resetting the network header.
Keep the remaining control block fields, including the ingress
interface used by the ICMP response path.

Fixes: f2edb9f7706d ("ipvs: implement passive PMTUD for IPIP packets")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Codex:gpt-5.5-cyber
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng 
Co-developed-by: David Lee 
Signed-off-by: David Lee 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipvs: separate destination availability state

2026-08-10T18:23:35+00:00

IPVS configuration paths update destination availability while connection
accounting updates destination overload state. The two independent states
share dest->flags, so their read-modify-write updates can race and lose one
another.

Keep OVERLOAD in flags, where the preceding patch serializes its updates
with dst_lock, and move AVAILABLE to cflags. This keeps configuration-
controlled availability out of the scheduler hot cacheline until a
scheduler needs to check it. It also prevents availability updates from
clobbering overload state.

The destination status bits are not exposed through the IPVS sockopt or
netlink interfaces, so keep their definitions in the internal IPVS header.

Readers can still observe stale destination state; this does not provide a
cross-field snapshot.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao 
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang 
Reported-by: Ao Wang 
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng 
Reported-by: Qi Li 
Reported-by: Ke Xu 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8913381c-1e02-35c7-0ec4-61de5a12fd35@ssi.bg/
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2
Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipvs: properly update the overload flag on dest edit

2026-08-10T18:14:54+00:00

The upper/lower connection thresholds for dest can be changed,
so use ip_vs_dest_update_overload() to properly update the
dest overload flag.

The thresholds were not limited, fit them in the 0 .. INT_MAX
range as already done in ipvsadm.

As the thresholds are also read when connections are created
and expired, use WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE to access them.

As the lower threshold is optional, use (u - (u >> 2)) to
calculate the 75% default value based on the upper threshold
by preserving the integer rounding, as suggested by Yizhou Zhao.

Trigger flag update when totalconns reaches one of the
thresholds and use dst_lock to serialize the updating.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipvs: add totalconns for dest

2026-08-10T18:14:20+00:00

Replace the inactconns dest counter with totalconns, now
inactconns can be obtained from totalconns - activeconns.
This reduces the atomic inc/dec ops for TCP/SCTP from
6 to 4 if the connection is established and then closed.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-08-06T18:53:47+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.2-rc7).

No conflicts, or adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipvs: return the csum validation for forward hook

2026-07-31T13:58:30+00:00

Sashiko notes that playing games with the skb dst and rt
flags instead of providing hooknum is not a good idea
when validating the checksums.

Also, skipping checksum validation for FORWARD packets
risk silent data corruption, even if the only user is
the FTP-CMD packets coming from the real server.

Sashiko also noticed that by using common checksum
helper in the previous commit we actually fixed old bug
where the TCP/UDP checksum for IPv6 on CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
was not validated correctly.

Fixes: e876b75b9020 ("ipvs: fix the checksum validations")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260722211420.153933-1-pablo%40netfilter.org
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260727185024.67534-1-ja%40ssi.bg
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260728202520.59179-1-ja%40ssi.bg
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipvs: avoid out-of-bounds write in ip_vs_nat_icmp

2026-07-31T13:58:16+00:00

Sashiko warns that local attacker can modify the packet
while it is processed by IPVS. Some places read the
IP ihl field multiple times which can cause out-of-bounds
access. One such place is ip_vs_nat_icmp where we
can write after the validated area.

Fix it by providing ciph argument just like it is done for
IPv6 and use ciph->len as offset to the embedded transport
header.

Modify some IPv4 header checks by reading the ihl field
only once.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260722101517.36313-1-ja%40ssi.bg
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso