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<title>netfilter: ipset: let destroy callbacks adjust ext mem size</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:27:07+00:00</updated>
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<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
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<published>2026-08-06T14:17:50+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 490937b88cb592cc0c5367758edd700fd5abd15c ]

For bitmap this change makes no difference, because destructors are
called synchronously.

List type however calls them via call_rcu() so accounting decrement can
happen after list_set_flush() set ext_size to 0.

'set-&gt;elements = 0' can be removed for the same reason in the list type
case, it calls 'set-&gt;elements--' for each element.

Fixes: 9e41f26a505c ("netfilter: ipset: Count non-static extension memory for userspace")
Suggested-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 490937b88cb592cc0c5367758edd700fd5abd15c ]

For bitmap this change makes no difference, because destructors are
called synchronously.

List type however calls them via call_rcu() so accounting decrement can
happen after list_set_flush() set ext_size to 0.

'set-&gt;elements = 0' can be removed for the same reason in the list type
case, it calls 'set-&gt;elements--' for each element.

Fixes: 9e41f26a505c ("netfilter: ipset: Count non-static extension memory for userspace")
Suggested-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: ipset: fix list type element drift bug</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:27:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-06T13:53:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4cbd69766b35a089664cadb1f613bb85f7ef77a9 ]

If list_set_uadd() calls list_set_replace() to swap an expired entry,
the element count remains the same, therefore the increment must be elided.

Fixes: 702b71e7c666 ("netfilter: ipset: Add element count to all set types header")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260806101947.2802-1-fw%40strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4cbd69766b35a089664cadb1f613bb85f7ef77a9 ]

If list_set_uadd() calls list_set_replace() to swap an expired entry,
the element count remains the same, therefore the increment must be elided.

Fixes: 702b71e7c666 ("netfilter: ipset: Add element count to all set types header")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260806101947.2802-1-fw%40strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: flowtable: publish GC-visible tuple last</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:27:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jérémy Jean</name>
<email>Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-08T12:40:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2014ac62df9d45bb9a004a043e85df7be09ed780 ]

nf_flow_table_iterate() only treats original-direction tuple nodes as
owning entries. Publishing the original node first lets GC observe and
free a flow while flow_offload_add() is still inserting the reply node.
Publish the reply node first and the original node last so GC never
sees a partially installed flow.

KASAN can trigger slab-use-after-free read and write reports in the
flowtable/rhashtable path (rht_deferred_worker, jhash, flow_offload_del,
flow_offload_lookup, etc.).

Fixes: ac2a66665e23 ("netfilter: add generic flow table infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Jérémy Jean &lt;Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr&gt;
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2014ac62df9d45bb9a004a043e85df7be09ed780 ]

nf_flow_table_iterate() only treats original-direction tuple nodes as
owning entries. Publishing the original node first lets GC observe and
free a flow while flow_offload_add() is still inserting the reply node.
Publish the reply node first and the original node last so GC never
sees a partially installed flow.

KASAN can trigger slab-use-after-free read and write reports in the
flowtable/rhashtable path (rht_deferred_worker, jhash, flow_offload_del,
flow_offload_lookup, etc.).

Fixes: ac2a66665e23 ("netfilter: add generic flow table infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Jérémy Jean &lt;Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr&gt;
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables_offload: suppress WARN_ON_ONCE for ENOMEM in abort path</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:27:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Velichayshiy</name>
<email>a.velichayshiy@ispras.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-06T16:11:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d02f592064347e0c1e0d84f24941ad338838cc48 ]

In nft_flow_rule_offload_abort(), WARN_ON_ONCE(err) is triggered on every
error during rollback, including -ENOMEM. Memory allocation failures are
expected under low-memory conditions and do not indicate a kernel bug.

Trace for example:
nft_flow_offload_chain() // FLOW_BLOCK_BIND
  nft_flow_block_chain()
    nft_chain_offload_cmd()
      nft_block_offload_cmd()
        -&gt;ndo_setup_tc()
        nsim_setup_tc()
          flow_block_cb_setup_simple()
            flow_block_cb_alloc() // fails to -ENOMEM

The warning was reproduced on the 5.10 stable kernel under memory pressure
via fault injection, but the underlying bug exists in mainline as well,
as demonstrated by the ENOMEM trace above. The following splat was
triggered during nf_tables transaction processing:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8567 at net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:532 nft_flow_rule_offload_abort net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:532 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8567 at net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:532 nft_flow_rule_offload_commit+0x971/0xcd0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:591
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 8567 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.10.260-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:nft_flow_rule_offload_abort net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:532 [inline]
RIP: 0010:nft_flow_rule_offload_commit+0x971/0xcd0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:591
Call Trace:
 nf_tables_commit+0x3bd/0x4bd0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8604
 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xb1e/0x1f20 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:509
 nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:579 [inline]
 nfnetlink_rcv+0x3b3/0x420 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:597
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x6cd/0xa00 net/netfilter/af_netlink.c:1340
 netlink_sendmsg+0x906/0xe10 net/netfilter/af_netlink.c:1919
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x155/0x190 net/socket.c:663
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x705/0x870 net/socket.c:2379
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x100/0x170 net/socket.c:2433
 __sys_sendmsg+0xe9/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2462
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1

Change the condition to WARN_ON_ONCE(err &amp;&amp; err != -ENOMEM) so that
warnings are only emitted for unexpected errors. This aligns with the
common kernel practice of not warning on -ENOMEM.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 63b48c73ff56 ("netfilter: nf_tables_offload: undo updates if transaction fails")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Velichayshiy &lt;a.velichayshiy@ispras.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d02f592064347e0c1e0d84f24941ad338838cc48 ]

In nft_flow_rule_offload_abort(), WARN_ON_ONCE(err) is triggered on every
error during rollback, including -ENOMEM. Memory allocation failures are
expected under low-memory conditions and do not indicate a kernel bug.

Trace for example:
nft_flow_offload_chain() // FLOW_BLOCK_BIND
  nft_flow_block_chain()
    nft_chain_offload_cmd()
      nft_block_offload_cmd()
        -&gt;ndo_setup_tc()
        nsim_setup_tc()
          flow_block_cb_setup_simple()
            flow_block_cb_alloc() // fails to -ENOMEM

The warning was reproduced on the 5.10 stable kernel under memory pressure
via fault injection, but the underlying bug exists in mainline as well,
as demonstrated by the ENOMEM trace above. The following splat was
triggered during nf_tables transaction processing:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8567 at net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:532 nft_flow_rule_offload_abort net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:532 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8567 at net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:532 nft_flow_rule_offload_commit+0x971/0xcd0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:591
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 8567 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.10.260-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:nft_flow_rule_offload_abort net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:532 [inline]
RIP: 0010:nft_flow_rule_offload_commit+0x971/0xcd0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_offload.c:591
Call Trace:
 nf_tables_commit+0x3bd/0x4bd0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8604
 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xb1e/0x1f20 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:509
 nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:579 [inline]
 nfnetlink_rcv+0x3b3/0x420 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:597
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x6cd/0xa00 net/netfilter/af_netlink.c:1340
 netlink_sendmsg+0x906/0xe10 net/netfilter/af_netlink.c:1919
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x155/0x190 net/socket.c:663
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x705/0x870 net/socket.c:2379
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x100/0x170 net/socket.c:2433
 __sys_sendmsg+0xe9/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2462
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1

Change the condition to WARN_ON_ONCE(err &amp;&amp; err != -ENOMEM) so that
warnings are only emitted for unexpected errors. This aligns with the
common kernel practice of not warning on -ENOMEM.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 63b48c73ff56 ("netfilter: nf_tables_offload: undo updates if transaction fails")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Velichayshiy &lt;a.velichayshiy@ispras.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: ipset: fix refcount race between list:set GC and swap</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:27:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiang Mei (Microsoft)</name>
<email>xmei5@asu.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-22T22:38:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0c88868271653537ed443272dd8e7d13634d214b ]

__ip_set_put_byindex() resolved the index to a set pointer under RCU,
then took ip_set_ref_lock in __ip_set_put() to decrement set-&gt;ref.
ip_set_swap() holds that same lock while swapping both the ip_set_list
slots and the two sets' ref counters, so it can interleave between the
dereference and the lock acquisition, leaving the caller to decrement a
set whose reference already moved to the other index and hit
BUG_ON(set-&gt;ref == 0). list_set_gc() reaches this from timer softirq,
which the nfnl mutex does not serialize against swap: an expiring
list:set member calls list_set_del() -&gt; ip_set_put_byindex() while
IPSET_CMD_SWAP runs on the referenced sets.

Resolve the index and decrement under ip_set_ref_lock, as ip_set_swap()
already does, keeping the refcount tied to the index rather than to a
stale set pointer.

  kernel BUG at net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:685!
  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  RIP: 0010:ip_set_put_byindex (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:870)
  Call Trace:
   &lt;IRQ&gt;
   list_set_del (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:159)
   set_cleanup_entries (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:181)
   list_set_gc (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:578)
   call_timer_fn (kernel/time/timer.c:1748)
   __run_timers (kernel/time/timer.c:1799 kernel/time/timer.c:2374)
   run_timer_softirq (kernel/time/timer.c:2405)
   &lt;/IRQ&gt;
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Fixes: 9076aea76538 ("netfilter: ipset: Increase the number of maximal sets automatically")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) &lt;xmei5@asu.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0c88868271653537ed443272dd8e7d13634d214b ]

__ip_set_put_byindex() resolved the index to a set pointer under RCU,
then took ip_set_ref_lock in __ip_set_put() to decrement set-&gt;ref.
ip_set_swap() holds that same lock while swapping both the ip_set_list
slots and the two sets' ref counters, so it can interleave between the
dereference and the lock acquisition, leaving the caller to decrement a
set whose reference already moved to the other index and hit
BUG_ON(set-&gt;ref == 0). list_set_gc() reaches this from timer softirq,
which the nfnl mutex does not serialize against swap: an expiring
list:set member calls list_set_del() -&gt; ip_set_put_byindex() while
IPSET_CMD_SWAP runs on the referenced sets.

Resolve the index and decrement under ip_set_ref_lock, as ip_set_swap()
already does, keeping the refcount tied to the index rather than to a
stale set pointer.

  kernel BUG at net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:685!
  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  RIP: 0010:ip_set_put_byindex (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:870)
  Call Trace:
   &lt;IRQ&gt;
   list_set_del (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:159)
   set_cleanup_entries (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:181)
   list_set_gc (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:578)
   call_timer_fn (kernel/time/timer.c:1748)
   __run_timers (kernel/time/timer.c:1799 kernel/time/timer.c:2374)
   run_timer_softirq (kernel/time/timer.c:2405)
   &lt;/IRQ&gt;
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Fixes: 9076aea76538 ("netfilter: ipset: Increase the number of maximal sets automatically")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) &lt;xmei5@asu.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik &lt;kadlec@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipvs: separate destination availability state</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:26:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yizhou Zhao</name>
<email>zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-18T20:16:38+00:00</published>
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commit cdcc4e46180df8161f4d2f3c6fd6beaf6990133d upstream.

IPVS configuration paths update destination availability while connection
accounting updates destination overload state. The two independent states
share dest-&gt;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 &lt;zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang &lt;yangyx22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Ao Wang &lt;wangao@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng &lt;fengxw06@126.com&gt;
Reported-by: Qi Li &lt;qli01@tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Ke Xu &lt;xuke@tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8913381c-1e02-35c7-0ec4-61de5a12fd35@ssi.bg/
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2
Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao &lt;zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
(cherry picked from commit cdcc4e46180df8161f4d2f3c6fd6beaf6990133d)
[ Julian: Backport by removing the hunks from ip_vs_xmit.c ]
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit cdcc4e46180df8161f4d2f3c6fd6beaf6990133d upstream.

IPVS configuration paths update destination availability while connection
accounting updates destination overload state. The two independent states
share dest-&gt;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 &lt;zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang &lt;yangyx22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Ao Wang &lt;wangao@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng &lt;fengxw06@126.com&gt;
Reported-by: Qi Li &lt;qli01@tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Ke Xu &lt;xuke@tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8913381c-1e02-35c7-0ec4-61de5a12fd35@ssi.bg/
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2
Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao &lt;zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
(cherry picked from commit cdcc4e46180df8161f4d2f3c6fd6beaf6990133d)
[ Julian: Backport by removing the hunks from ip_vs_xmit.c ]
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: flowtable: ensure sufficient headroom in xmit path</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T16:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-30T14:49:48+00:00</published>
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commit ef4f741e8627512cb8c82f59a1fc7aacd854aadf upstream.

Check for headroom and call skb_expand_head() like in the IP output
path to ensure there is sufficient headroom for the mac header when
forwarding this packet as suggested by sashiko.

Fixes: b5964aac51e0 ("netfilter: flowtable: consolidate xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ef4f741e8627512cb8c82f59a1fc7aacd854aadf upstream.

Check for headroom and call skb_expand_head() like in the IP output
path to ensure there is sufficient headroom for the mac header when
forwarding this packet as suggested by sashiko.

Fixes: b5964aac51e0 ("netfilter: flowtable: consolidate xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: always set route tuple out ifindex</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T16:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Bianconi</name>
<email>lorenzo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-01T10:22:45+00:00</published>
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commit 2bdc536c9da7fa08baf0fafe9d91243b83cb9c8b upstream.

Always set nf_flow_route tuple out ifindex even if the indev is not one
of the flowtable configured devices since otherwise the outdev lookup in
nf_flow_offload_ip_hook() or nf_flow_offload_ipv6_hook() for
FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_NEIGH flowtable entries will fail.
The above issue occurs in the following configuration since IP6IP6
tunnel does not support flowtable acceleration yet:

$ip addr show
5: eth0: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:11:22:33:22:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netns ns1
    inet6 2001:db8:1::2/64 scope global nodad
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::211:22ff:fe33:2255/64 scope link tentative proto kernel_ll
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
6: eth1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:22:22:33:22:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netns ns3
    inet6 2001:db8:2::1/64 scope global nodad
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::222:22ff:fe33:2255/64 scope link tentative proto kernel_ll
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
7: tun0@NONE: &lt;POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1452 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/tunnel6 2001:db8:2::1 peer 2001:db8:2::2 permaddr a85:e732:2c37::
    inet6 2002:db8:1::1/64 scope global nodad
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::885:e7ff:fe32:2c37/64 scope link proto kernel_ll
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

$ip -6 route show
2001:db8:1::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
2001:db8:2::/64 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
2002:db8:1::/64 dev tun0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
default via 2002:db8:1::2 dev tun0 metric 1024 pref medium

$nft list ruleset
table inet filter {
        flowtable ft {
                hook ingress priority filter
                devices = { eth0, eth1 }
        }

        chain forward {
                type filter hook forward priority filter; policy accept;
                meta l4proto { tcp, udp } flow add @ft
        }
}

Fixes: b5964aac51e0 ("netfilter: flowtable: consolidate xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2bdc536c9da7fa08baf0fafe9d91243b83cb9c8b upstream.

Always set nf_flow_route tuple out ifindex even if the indev is not one
of the flowtable configured devices since otherwise the outdev lookup in
nf_flow_offload_ip_hook() or nf_flow_offload_ipv6_hook() for
FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_NEIGH flowtable entries will fail.
The above issue occurs in the following configuration since IP6IP6
tunnel does not support flowtable acceleration yet:

$ip addr show
5: eth0: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:11:22:33:22:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netns ns1
    inet6 2001:db8:1::2/64 scope global nodad
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::211:22ff:fe33:2255/64 scope link tentative proto kernel_ll
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
6: eth1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:22:22:33:22:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netns ns3
    inet6 2001:db8:2::1/64 scope global nodad
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::222:22ff:fe33:2255/64 scope link tentative proto kernel_ll
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
7: tun0@NONE: &lt;POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1452 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/tunnel6 2001:db8:2::1 peer 2001:db8:2::2 permaddr a85:e732:2c37::
    inet6 2002:db8:1::1/64 scope global nodad
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::885:e7ff:fe32:2c37/64 scope link proto kernel_ll
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

$ip -6 route show
2001:db8:1::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
2001:db8:2::/64 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
2002:db8:1::/64 dev tun0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
default via 2002:db8:1::2 dev tun0 metric 1024 pref medium

$nft list ruleset
table inet filter {
        flowtable ft {
                hook ingress priority filter
                devices = { eth0, eth1 }
        }

        chain forward {
                type filter hook forward priority filter; policy accept;
                meta l4proto { tcp, udp } flow add @ft
        }
}

Fixes: b5964aac51e0 ("netfilter: flowtable: consolidate xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack: defer invalid log until after unlock</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T16:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zihan Xi</name>
<email>zihanx@nebusec.ai</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-01T14:27:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0424186d570aa4d1ad17f516afb86bd9eaa4f42e'/>
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commit 2d19b95c9723001f214f7a47d67b09f46238f200 upstream.

TCP and SCTP conntrack paths can emit invalid-packet logs while ct-&gt;lock
is still held.

When invalid logging is routed to nfnetlink_log and conntrack export is
enabled, the log path can re-enter conntrack netlink glue and dump the
same conntrack again. Protocol attribute dumping may take ct-&gt;lock, so
logging while holding that lock can deadlock.

Defer the TCP invalid logs by storing only the minimal log context while
ct-&gt;lock is held and emitting the log after unlocking. Also make the TCP
timeout-lowering invalid path return whether a log is needed, then emit
that log after unlocking.

Do the same for the SCTP invalid state-transition log that can be reached
while ct-&gt;lock is held.

Add a lockdep assertion to nf_ct_l4proto_log_invalid() so future callers
that log invalid conntracks while holding ct-&gt;lock are caught outside TCP
and SCTP as well.

Fixes: 628d694344a0 ("netfilter: conntrack: reduce timeout when receiving out-of-window fin or rst")
Fixes: d9a6f0d0df18 ("netfilter: conntrack: prepare tcp_in_window for ternary return value")
Fixes: f71cb8f45d09 ("netfilter: conntrack: sctp: use nf log infrastructure for invalid packets")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega &lt;vega@nebusec.ai&gt;
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Signed-off-by: Zihan Xi &lt;zihanx@nebusec.ai&gt;
Reviewed-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;
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commit 2d19b95c9723001f214f7a47d67b09f46238f200 upstream.

TCP and SCTP conntrack paths can emit invalid-packet logs while ct-&gt;lock
is still held.

When invalid logging is routed to nfnetlink_log and conntrack export is
enabled, the log path can re-enter conntrack netlink glue and dump the
same conntrack again. Protocol attribute dumping may take ct-&gt;lock, so
logging while holding that lock can deadlock.

Defer the TCP invalid logs by storing only the minimal log context while
ct-&gt;lock is held and emitting the log after unlocking. Also make the TCP
timeout-lowering invalid path return whether a log is needed, then emit
that log after unlocking.

Do the same for the SCTP invalid state-transition log that can be reached
while ct-&gt;lock is held.

Add a lockdep assertion to nf_ct_l4proto_log_invalid() so future callers
that log invalid conntracks while holding ct-&gt;lock are caught outside TCP
and SCTP as well.

Fixes: 628d694344a0 ("netfilter: conntrack: reduce timeout when receiving out-of-window fin or rst")
Fixes: d9a6f0d0df18 ("netfilter: conntrack: prepare tcp_in_window for ternary return value")
Fixes: f71cb8f45d09 ("netfilter: conntrack: sctp: use nf log infrastructure for invalid packets")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega &lt;vega@nebusec.ai&gt;
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Signed-off-by: Zihan Xi &lt;zihanx@nebusec.ai&gt;
Reviewed-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;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: avoid softlockup warnings in nft_chain_validate</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T16:18:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-11T11:55:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7e7a817f2dfd79098a706ee5581ea9518b2de878 ]

This reverts commit
314c82841602 ("netfilter: nf_tables: can't schedule in nft_chain_validate"):
Since commit a60a5abe19d6 ("netfilter: nf_tables: allow iter callbacks to sleep")
the iterator callback is invoked without rcu read lock held, so this
cond_resched() is now valid.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7e7a817f2dfd79098a706ee5581ea9518b2de878 ]

This reverts commit
314c82841602 ("netfilter: nf_tables: can't schedule in nft_chain_validate"):
Since commit a60a5abe19d6 ("netfilter: nf_tables: allow iter callbacks to sleep")
the iterator callback is invoked without rcu read lock held, so this
cond_resched() is now valid.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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