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<title>netfilter: nf_tables: Add notifications for hook changes</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T11:57:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Sutter</name>
<email>phil@nwl.cc</email>
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<published>2025-05-21T20:44:33+00:00</published>
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Notify user space if netdev hooks are updated due to netdev add/remove
events. Send minimal notification messages by introducing
NFT_MSG_NEWDEV/DELDEV message types describing a single device only.

Upon NETDEV_CHANGENAME, the callback has no information about the
interface's old name. To provide a clear message to user space, include
the hook's stored interface name in the notification.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Notify user space if netdev hooks are updated due to netdev add/remove
events. Send minimal notification messages by introducing
NFT_MSG_NEWDEV/DELDEV message types describing a single device only.

Upon NETDEV_CHANGENAME, the callback has no information about the
interface's old name. To provide a clear message to user space, include
the hook's stored interface name in the notification.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: Have a list of nf_hook_ops in nft_hook</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T11:57:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Sutter</name>
<email>phil@nwl.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-21T20:44:26+00:00</published>
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Supporting a 1:n relationship between nft_hook and nf_hook_ops is
convenient since a chain's or flowtable's nft_hooks may remain in place
despite matching interfaces disappearing. This stabilizes ruleset dumps
in that regard and opens the possibility to claim newly added interfaces
which match the spec. Also it prepares for wildcard interface specs
since these will potentially match multiple interfaces.

All spots dealing with hook registration are updated to handle a list of
multiple nf_hook_ops, but nft_netdev_hook_alloc() only adds a single
item for now to retain the old behaviour. The only expected functional
change here is how vanishing interfaces are handled: Instead of dropping
the respective nft_hook, only the matching nf_hook_ops are dropped.

To safely remove individual ops from the list in netdev handlers, an
rcu_head is added to struct nf_hook_ops so kfree_rcu() may be used.
There is at least nft_flowtable_find_dev() which may be iterating
through the list at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Supporting a 1:n relationship between nft_hook and nf_hook_ops is
convenient since a chain's or flowtable's nft_hooks may remain in place
despite matching interfaces disappearing. This stabilizes ruleset dumps
in that regard and opens the possibility to claim newly added interfaces
which match the spec. Also it prepares for wildcard interface specs
since these will potentially match multiple interfaces.

All spots dealing with hook registration are updated to handle a list of
multiple nf_hook_ops, but nft_netdev_hook_alloc() only adds a single
item for now to retain the old behaviour. The only expected functional
change here is how vanishing interfaces are handled: Instead of dropping
the respective nft_hook, only the matching nf_hook_ops are dropped.

To safely remove individual ops from the list in netdev handlers, an
rcu_head is added to struct nf_hook_ops so kfree_rcu() may be used.
There is at least nft_flowtable_find_dev() which may be iterating
through the list at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce nft_hook_find_ops{,_rcu}()</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T11:57:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Sutter</name>
<email>phil@nwl.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-21T20:44:23+00:00</published>
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Also a pretty dull wrapper around the hook-&gt;ops.dev comparison for now.
Will search the embedded nf_hook_ops list in future. The ugly cast to
eliminate the const qualifier will vanish then, too.

Since this future list will be RCU-protected, also introduce an _rcu()
variant here.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Also a pretty dull wrapper around the hook-&gt;ops.dev comparison for now.
Will search the embedded nf_hook_ops list in future. The ugly cast to
eliminate the const qualifier will vanish then, too.

Since this future list will be RCU-protected, also introduce an _rcu()
variant here.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: nft_fib: consistent l3mdev handling</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T11:57:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-21T09:38:48+00:00</published>
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fib has two modes:
1. Obtain output device according to source or destination address
2. Obtain the type of the address, e.g. local, unicast, multicast.

'fib daddr type' should return 'local' if the address is configured
in this netns or unicast otherwise.

'fib daddr . iif type' should return 'local' if the address is configured
on the input interface or unicast otherwise, i.e. more restrictive.

However, if the interface is part of a VRF, then 'fib daddr type'
returns unicast even if the address is configured on the incoming
interface.

This is broken for both ipv4 and ipv6.

In the ipv4 case, inet_dev_addr_type must only be used if the
'iif' or 'oif' (strict mode) was requested.

Else inet_addr_type_dev_table() needs to be used and the correct
dev argument must be passed as well so the correct fib (vrf) table
is used.

In the ipv6 case, the bug is similar, without strict mode, dev is NULL
so .flowi6_l3mdev will be set to 0.

Add a new 'nft_fib_l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu()' helper and use that
to init the .l3mdev structure member.

For ipv6, use it from nft_fib6_flowi_init() which gets called from
both the 'type' and the 'route' mode eval functions.

This provides consistent behaviour for all modes for both ipv4 and ipv6:
If strict matching is requested, the input respectively output device
of the netfilter hooks is used.

Otherwise, use skb-&gt;dev to obtain the l3mdev ifindex.

Without this, most type checks in updated nft_fib.sh selftest fail:

  FAIL: did not find veth0 . 10.9.9.1 . local in fibtype4
  FAIL: did not find veth0 . dead:1::1 . local in fibtype6
  FAIL: did not find veth0 . dead:9::1 . local in fibtype6
  FAIL: did not find tvrf . 10.0.1.1 . local in fibtype4
  FAIL: did not find tvrf . 10.9.9.1 . local in fibtype4
  FAIL: did not find tvrf . dead:1::1 . local in fibtype6
  FAIL: did not find tvrf . dead:9::1 . local in fibtype6
  FAIL: fib expression address types match (iif in vrf)

(fib errounously returns 'unicast' for all of them, even
 though all of these addresses are local to the vrf).

Fixes: f6d0cbcf09c5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add fib expression")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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fib has two modes:
1. Obtain output device according to source or destination address
2. Obtain the type of the address, e.g. local, unicast, multicast.

'fib daddr type' should return 'local' if the address is configured
in this netns or unicast otherwise.

'fib daddr . iif type' should return 'local' if the address is configured
on the input interface or unicast otherwise, i.e. more restrictive.

However, if the interface is part of a VRF, then 'fib daddr type'
returns unicast even if the address is configured on the incoming
interface.

This is broken for both ipv4 and ipv6.

In the ipv4 case, inet_dev_addr_type must only be used if the
'iif' or 'oif' (strict mode) was requested.

Else inet_addr_type_dev_table() needs to be used and the correct
dev argument must be passed as well so the correct fib (vrf) table
is used.

In the ipv6 case, the bug is similar, without strict mode, dev is NULL
so .flowi6_l3mdev will be set to 0.

Add a new 'nft_fib_l3mdev_master_ifindex_rcu()' helper and use that
to init the .l3mdev structure member.

For ipv6, use it from nft_fib6_flowi_init() which gets called from
both the 'type' and the 'route' mode eval functions.

This provides consistent behaviour for all modes for both ipv4 and ipv6:
If strict matching is requested, the input respectively output device
of the netfilter hooks is used.

Otherwise, use skb-&gt;dev to obtain the l3mdev ifindex.

Without this, most type checks in updated nft_fib.sh selftest fail:

  FAIL: did not find veth0 . 10.9.9.1 . local in fibtype4
  FAIL: did not find veth0 . dead:1::1 . local in fibtype6
  FAIL: did not find veth0 . dead:9::1 . local in fibtype6
  FAIL: did not find tvrf . 10.0.1.1 . local in fibtype4
  FAIL: did not find tvrf . 10.9.9.1 . local in fibtype4
  FAIL: did not find tvrf . dead:1::1 . local in fibtype6
  FAIL: did not find tvrf . dead:9::1 . local in fibtype6
  FAIL: fib expression address types match (iif in vrf)

(fib errounously returns 'unicast' for all of them, even
 though all of these addresses are local to the vrf).

Fixes: f6d0cbcf09c5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add fib expression")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nf-next-25-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T15:29:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T15:29:12+00:00</published>
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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter updates for net-next

The following batch contains Netfilter updates for net-next:

1) Use kvmalloc in xt_hashlimit, from Denis Kirjanov.

2) Tighten nf_conntrack sysctl accepted values for nf_conntrack_max
   and nf_ct_expect_max, from Nicolas Bouchinet.

3) Avoid lookup in nft_fib if socket is available, from Florian Westphal.

4) Initialize struct lsm_context in nfnetlink_queue to avoid
   hypothetical ENOMEM errors, Chenyuan Yang.

5) Use strscpy() instead of _pad when initializing xtables table name,
   kzalloc is already used to initialized the table memory area.
   From Thorsten Blum.

6) Missing socket lookup by conntrack information for IPv6 traffic
   in nft_socket, there is a similar chunk in IPv4, this was never
   added when IPv6 NAT was introduced. From Maxim Mikityanskiy.

7) Fix clang issues with nf_tables CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE,
   from WangYuli.

* tag 'nf-next-25-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next:
  netfilter: nf_tables: Only use nf_skip_indirect_calls() when MITIGATION_RETPOLINE
  netfilter: socket: Lookup orig tuple for IPv6 SNAT
  netfilter: xtables: Use strscpy() instead of strscpy_pad()
  netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: Initialize ctx to avoid memory allocation error
  netfilter: fib: avoid lookup if socket is available
  netfilter: conntrack: Bound nf_conntrack sysctl writes
  netfilter: xt_hashlimit: replace vmalloc calls with kvmalloc
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250323100922.59983-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter updates for net-next

The following batch contains Netfilter updates for net-next:

1) Use kvmalloc in xt_hashlimit, from Denis Kirjanov.

2) Tighten nf_conntrack sysctl accepted values for nf_conntrack_max
   and nf_ct_expect_max, from Nicolas Bouchinet.

3) Avoid lookup in nft_fib if socket is available, from Florian Westphal.

4) Initialize struct lsm_context in nfnetlink_queue to avoid
   hypothetical ENOMEM errors, Chenyuan Yang.

5) Use strscpy() instead of _pad when initializing xtables table name,
   kzalloc is already used to initialized the table memory area.
   From Thorsten Blum.

6) Missing socket lookup by conntrack information for IPv6 traffic
   in nft_socket, there is a similar chunk in IPv4, this was never
   added when IPv6 NAT was introduced. From Maxim Mikityanskiy.

7) Fix clang issues with nf_tables CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE,
   from WangYuli.

* tag 'nf-next-25-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next:
  netfilter: nf_tables: Only use nf_skip_indirect_calls() when MITIGATION_RETPOLINE
  netfilter: socket: Lookup orig tuple for IPv6 SNAT
  netfilter: xtables: Use strscpy() instead of strscpy_pad()
  netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: Initialize ctx to avoid memory allocation error
  netfilter: fib: avoid lookup if socket is available
  netfilter: conntrack: Bound nf_conntrack sysctl writes
  netfilter: xt_hashlimit: replace vmalloc calls with kvmalloc
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250323100922.59983-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: fib: avoid lookup if socket is available</title>
<updated>2025-03-21T09:12:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-20T13:07:01+00:00</published>
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In case the fib match is used from the input hook we can avoid the fib
lookup if early demux assigned a socket for us: check that the input
interface matches sk-cached one.

Rework the existing 'lo bypass' logic to first check sk, then
for loopback interface type to elide the fib lookup.

This speeds up fib matching a little, before:
93.08 GBit/s (no rules at all)
75.1  GBit/s ("fib saddr . iif oif missing drop" in prerouting)
75.62 GBit/s ("fib saddr . iif oif missing drop" in input)

After:
92.48 GBit/s (no rules at all)
75.62 GBit/s (fib rule in prerouting)
90.37 GBit/s (fib rule in input).

Numbers for the 'no rules' and 'prerouting' are expected to
closely match in-between runs, the 3rd/input test case exercises the
the 'avoid lookup if cached ifindex in sk matches' case.

Test used iperf3 via veth interface, lo can't be used due to existing
loopback test.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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In case the fib match is used from the input hook we can avoid the fib
lookup if early demux assigned a socket for us: check that the input
interface matches sk-cached one.

Rework the existing 'lo bypass' logic to first check sk, then
for loopback interface type to elide the fib lookup.

This speeds up fib matching a little, before:
93.08 GBit/s (no rules at all)
75.1  GBit/s ("fib saddr . iif oif missing drop" in prerouting)
75.62 GBit/s ("fib saddr . iif oif missing drop" in input)

After:
92.48 GBit/s (no rules at all)
75.62 GBit/s (fib rule in prerouting)
90.37 GBit/s (fib rule in input).

Numbers for the 'no rules' and 'prerouting' are expected to
closely match in-between runs, the 3rd/input test case exercises the
the 'avoid lookup if cached ifindex in sk matches' case.

Test used iperf3 via veth interface, lo can't be used due to existing
loopback test.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: make destruction work queue pernet</title>
<updated>2025-03-06T12:35:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-06T03:05:26+00:00</published>
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The call to flush_work before tearing down a table from the netlink
notifier was supposed to make sure that all earlier updates (e.g. rule
add) that might reference that table have been processed.

Unfortunately, flush_work() waits for the last queued instance.
This could be an instance that is different from the one that we must
wait for.

This is because transactions are protected with a pernet mutex, but the
work item is global, so holding the transaction mutex doesn't prevent
another netns from queueing more work.

Make the work item pernet so that flush_work() will wait for all
transactions queued from this netns.

A welcome side effect is that we no longer need to wait for transaction
objects from foreign netns.

The gc work queue is still global.  This seems to be ok because nft_set
structures are reference counted and each container structure owns a
reference on the net namespace.

The destroy_list is still protected by a global spinlock rather than
pernet one but the hold time is very short anyway.

v2: call cancel_work_sync before reaping the remaining tables (Pablo).

Fixes: 9f6958ba2e90 ("netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally flush pending work before notifier")
Reported-by: syzbot+5d8c5789c8cb076b2c25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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The call to flush_work before tearing down a table from the netlink
notifier was supposed to make sure that all earlier updates (e.g. rule
add) that might reference that table have been processed.

Unfortunately, flush_work() waits for the last queued instance.
This could be an instance that is different from the one that we must
wait for.

This is because transactions are protected with a pernet mutex, but the
work item is global, so holding the transaction mutex doesn't prevent
another netns from queueing more work.

Make the work item pernet so that flush_work() will wait for all
transactions queued from this netns.

A welcome side effect is that we no longer need to wait for transaction
objects from foreign netns.

The gc work queue is still global.  This seems to be ok because nft_set
structures are reference counted and each container structure owns a
reference on the net namespace.

The destroy_list is still protected by a global spinlock rather than
pernet one but the hold time is very short anyway.

v2: call cancel_work_sync before reaping the remaining tables (Pablo).

Fixes: 9f6958ba2e90 ("netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally flush pending work before notifier")
Reported-by: syzbot+5d8c5789c8cb076b2c25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: flowtable: add CLOSING state</title>
<updated>2025-01-19T15:41:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-13T23:50:38+00:00</published>
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tcp rst/fin packet triggers an immediate teardown of the flow which
results in sending flows back to the classic forwarding path.

This behaviour was introduced by:

  da5984e51063 ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: add support for sending flows back to the slow path")
  b6f27d322a0a ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: tear down TCP flows if RST or FIN was seen")

whose goal is to expedite removal of flow entries from the hardware
table. Before these patches, the flow was released after the flow entry
timed out.

However, this approach leads to packet races when restoring the
conntrack state as well as late flow re-offload situations when the TCP
connection is ending.

This patch adds a new CLOSING state that is is entered when tcp rst/fin
packet is seen. This allows for an early removal of the flow entry from
the hardware table. But the flow entry still remains in software, so tcp
packets to shut down the flow are not sent back to slow path.

If syn packet is seen from this new CLOSING state, then this flow enters
teardown state, ct state is set to TCP_CONNTRACK_CLOSE state and packet
is sent to slow path, so this TCP reopen scenario can be handled by
conntrack. TCP_CONNTRACK_CLOSE provides a small timeout that aims at
quickly releasing this stale entry from the conntrack table.

Moreover, skip hardware re-offload from flowtable software packet if the
flow is in CLOSING state.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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tcp rst/fin packet triggers an immediate teardown of the flow which
results in sending flows back to the classic forwarding path.

This behaviour was introduced by:

  da5984e51063 ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: add support for sending flows back to the slow path")
  b6f27d322a0a ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: tear down TCP flows if RST or FIN was seen")

whose goal is to expedite removal of flow entries from the hardware
table. Before these patches, the flow was released after the flow entry
timed out.

However, this approach leads to packet races when restoring the
conntrack state as well as late flow re-offload situations when the TCP
connection is ending.

This patch adds a new CLOSING state that is is entered when tcp rst/fin
packet is seen. This allows for an early removal of the flow entry from
the hardware table. But the flow entry still remains in software, so tcp
packets to shut down the flow are not sent back to slow path.

If syn packet is seen from this new CLOSING state, then this flow enters
teardown state, ct state is set to TCP_CONNTRACK_CLOSE state and packet
is sent to slow path, so this TCP reopen scenario can be handled by
conntrack. TCP_CONNTRACK_CLOSE provides a small timeout that aims at
quickly releasing this stale entry from the conntrack table.

Moreover, skip hardware re-offload from flowtable software packet if the
flow is in CLOSING state.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: conntrack: rework offload nf_conn timeout extension logic</title>
<updated>2025-01-19T15:41:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-13T23:50:36+00:00</published>
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Offload nf_conn entries may not see traffic for a very long time.

To prevent incorrect 'ct is stale' checks during nf_conntrack table
lookup, the gc worker extends the timeout nf_conn entries marked for
offload to a large value.

The existing logic suffers from a few problems.

Garbage collection runs without locks, its unlikely but possible
that @ct is removed right after the 'offload' bit test.

In that case, the timeout of a new/reallocated nf_conn entry will
be increased.

Prevent this by obtaining a reference count on the ct object and
re-check of the confirmed and offload bits.

If those are not set, the ct is being removed, skip the timeout
extension in this case.

Parallel teardown is also problematic:
 cpu1                                cpu2
 gc_worker
                                     calls flow_offload_teardown()
 tests OFFLOAD bit, set
                                     clear OFFLOAD bit
                                     ct-&gt;timeout is repaired (e.g. set to timeout[UDP_CT_REPLIED])
 nf_ct_offload_timeout() called
 expire value is fetched
 &lt;INTERRUPT&gt;
-&gt; NF_CT_DAY timeout for flow that isn't offloaded
(and might not see any further packets).

Use cmpxchg: if ct-&gt;timeout was repaired after the 2nd 'offload bit' test
passed, then ct-&gt;timeout will only be updated of ct-&gt;timeout was not
altered in between.

As we already have a gc worker for flowtable entries, ct-&gt;timeout repair
can be handled from the flowtable gc worker.

This avoids having flowtable specific logic in the conntrack core
and avoids checking entries that were never offloaded.

This allows to remove the nf_ct_offload_timeout helper.
Its safe to use in the add case, but not on teardown.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Offload nf_conn entries may not see traffic for a very long time.

To prevent incorrect 'ct is stale' checks during nf_conntrack table
lookup, the gc worker extends the timeout nf_conn entries marked for
offload to a large value.

The existing logic suffers from a few problems.

Garbage collection runs without locks, its unlikely but possible
that @ct is removed right after the 'offload' bit test.

In that case, the timeout of a new/reallocated nf_conn entry will
be increased.

Prevent this by obtaining a reference count on the ct object and
re-check of the confirmed and offload bits.

If those are not set, the ct is being removed, skip the timeout
extension in this case.

Parallel teardown is also problematic:
 cpu1                                cpu2
 gc_worker
                                     calls flow_offload_teardown()
 tests OFFLOAD bit, set
                                     clear OFFLOAD bit
                                     ct-&gt;timeout is repaired (e.g. set to timeout[UDP_CT_REPLIED])
 nf_ct_offload_timeout() called
 expire value is fetched
 &lt;INTERRUPT&gt;
-&gt; NF_CT_DAY timeout for flow that isn't offloaded
(and might not see any further packets).

Use cmpxchg: if ct-&gt;timeout was repaired after the 2nd 'offload bit' test
passed, then ct-&gt;timeout will only be updated of ct-&gt;timeout was not
altered in between.

As we already have a gc worker for flowtable entries, ct-&gt;timeout repair
can be handled from the flowtable gc worker.

This avoids having flowtable specific logic in the conntrack core
and avoids checking entries that were never offloaded.

This allows to remove the nf_ct_offload_timeout helper.
Its safe to use in the add case, but not on teardown.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: conntrack: remove skb argument from nf_ct_refresh</title>
<updated>2025-01-19T15:41:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-13T23:50:35+00:00</published>
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Its not used (and could be NULL), so remove it.
This allows to use nf_ct_refresh in places where we don't have
an skb without having to double-check that skb == NULL would be safe.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Its not used (and could be NULL), so remove it.
This allows to use nf_ct_refresh in places where we don't have
an skb without having to double-check that skb == NULL would be safe.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
</pre>
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