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<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: store master_tuple in expectation</title>
<updated>2026-06-23T11:10:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-22T19:35:14+00:00</published>
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Store master conntrack tuple in the expectation since exp-&gt;master might
refer to a different conntrack when accessed from rcu read side lock
area due to typesafe rcu rules.

Fixes: 02a3231b6d82 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: store netns and zone in expectation")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Store master conntrack tuple in the expectation since exp-&gt;master might
refer to a different conntrack when accessed from rcu read side lock
area due to typesafe rcu rules.

Fixes: 02a3231b6d82 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: store netns and zone in expectation")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: conntrack: add deprecation warnings for irc and pptp trackers</title>
<updated>2026-06-23T11:10:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-12T06:03:50+00:00</published>
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IRC Direct client-to-client requires plaintext.  IRC over TLS should be
preferred, making this helper ineffective.  Add a deprecation warning and
update the help text to better reflect that this is needed for the DCC
extension, not IRC itself.

PPTP is esoteric these days and it is the only helper that requires the
destroy callback in the conntrack helper API.

Removal would simplify the conntrack core.

Both helpers are IPv4 only.

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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IRC Direct client-to-client requires plaintext.  IRC over TLS should be
preferred, making this helper ineffective.  Add a deprecation warning and
update the help text to better reflect that this is needed for the DCC
extension, not IRC itself.

PPTP is esoteric these days and it is the only helper that requires the
destroy callback in the conntrack helper API.

Removal would simplify the conntrack core.

Both helpers are IPv4 only.

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_conntrack_expect: use conntrack GC to reap expectations</title>
<updated>2026-06-20T22:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-18T11:56:38+00:00</published>
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This patch replaces the timer API by GC worker approach for
expectations, as it already happened in many other subsystems.

Use the existing conntrack GC worker to iterate over the local list of
expectations in the master conntrack to reap expired expectations.
Check IPS_HELPER_BIT to run GC for expectations, set it on for nft_ct
expectation which nevers sets it. Hold the expectation spinlock while
iterating over the master conntrack expectation list to synchronize with
nf_ct_remove_expectations(). This also performs runtime packet path
garbage collection through the expectation insertion and lookup
functions while walking over one of the chains of the global expectation
hashtables. Unconfirmed conntrack entries are skipped since ct-&gt;ext can
be reallocated and dying are skipped since those will be gone soon.
Set on IPS_HELPER_BIT if the helper ct extension is added, then the new
GC worker does not need to bump the ct refcount to check if the ct-&gt;ext
helper is available.

This removes the extra bump on the refcount for expectation timers, this
allows to remove several nf_ct_expect_put() calls after the unlink,
after this update only refcount remains at 1 while on the expectation
hashes.

This patch implicitly addresses a race with the existing timer API
allowing an expectation to access a stale exp-&gt;master pointer which has
been already released when expectation removal loses races with an
expiring timer, ie. timer_del() reporting false.

Add a new NF_CT_EXPECT_DEAD flag to reap this expectation via GC. This
is needed by nf_conntrack_unexpect_related() which is called in error
paths to invalidate newly created expectations that has been added into
the hashes. These expectactions cannot be inmediately released as GC or
nf_ct_remove_expectations() could race to make it. On expectation
insert, the runtime GC reaps stale expectations before checking the
expectation limit set by policy.

Set current timestamp in nf_ct_expect_alloc(), then add the expectation
policy timeout (or custom timeout specified added on top of this) to
specify the expectation lifetime.

Fixes: bffcaad9afdf ("netfilter: ctnetlink: ensure safe access to master conntrack")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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This patch replaces the timer API by GC worker approach for
expectations, as it already happened in many other subsystems.

Use the existing conntrack GC worker to iterate over the local list of
expectations in the master conntrack to reap expired expectations.
Check IPS_HELPER_BIT to run GC for expectations, set it on for nft_ct
expectation which nevers sets it. Hold the expectation spinlock while
iterating over the master conntrack expectation list to synchronize with
nf_ct_remove_expectations(). This also performs runtime packet path
garbage collection through the expectation insertion and lookup
functions while walking over one of the chains of the global expectation
hashtables. Unconfirmed conntrack entries are skipped since ct-&gt;ext can
be reallocated and dying are skipped since those will be gone soon.
Set on IPS_HELPER_BIT if the helper ct extension is added, then the new
GC worker does not need to bump the ct refcount to check if the ct-&gt;ext
helper is available.

This removes the extra bump on the refcount for expectation timers, this
allows to remove several nf_ct_expect_put() calls after the unlink,
after this update only refcount remains at 1 while on the expectation
hashes.

This patch implicitly addresses a race with the existing timer API
allowing an expectation to access a stale exp-&gt;master pointer which has
been already released when expectation removal loses races with an
expiring timer, ie. timer_del() reporting false.

Add a new NF_CT_EXPECT_DEAD flag to reap this expectation via GC. This
is needed by nf_conntrack_unexpect_related() which is called in error
paths to invalidate newly created expectations that has been added into
the hashes. These expectactions cannot be inmediately released as GC or
nf_ct_remove_expectations() could race to make it. On expectation
insert, the runtime GC reaps stale expectations before checking the
expectation limit set by policy.

Set current timestamp in nf_ct_expect_alloc(), then add the expectation
policy timeout (or custom timeout specified added on top of this) to
specify the expectation lifetime.

Fixes: bffcaad9afdf ("netfilter: ctnetlink: ensure safe access to master conntrack")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: add validate callback for get operations</title>
<updated>2026-06-20T22:18:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-18T06:16:18+00:00</published>
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Blamed commit added NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR to the set validate callback,
yet this is a get operation.

Add a get validate callback and move the NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR key
there.

AFAICS this is harmless, NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR can deal with a NULL
input device and the set handler ignores a NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR
operation, but it allows to read 4 bytes off bridge skb-&gt;cb[].

Fixes: cbd2257dc96e ("netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: introduce NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR support")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera &lt;fmancera@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Blamed commit added NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR to the set validate callback,
yet this is a get operation.

Add a get validate callback and move the NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR key
there.

AFAICS this is harmless, NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR can deal with a NULL
input device and the set handler ignores a NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR
operation, but it allows to read 4 bytes off bridge skb-&gt;cb[].

Fixes: cbd2257dc96e ("netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: introduce NFT_META_BRI_IIFHWADDR support")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera &lt;fmancera@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_queue: pin bridge device while NFQUEUE holds fake dst</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T10:19:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haoze Xie</name>
<email>royenheart@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-08T05:43:44+00:00</published>
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The br_netfilter fake rtable is embedded in struct net_bridge and is
attached to bridged packets with skb_dst_set_noref(). If such a packet is
queued to NFQUEUE, __nf_queue() upgrades that fake dst with
skb_dst_force().

At that point the queued skb can hold a real dst reference after bridge
teardown has started. The problem is not that every bridged packet needs
its own dst reference. The problem is that NFQUEUE can keep the bridge
private fake dst alive after unregister begins.

Fix this by keeping the bridge fake dst model unchanged and pinning the
bridge master device only while the packet sits in NFQUEUE. Record the
bridge device in nf_queue_entry when the queued skb carries a bridge fake
dst, take a device reference for the queue lifetime, and drop it when the
queue entry is freed.

Also make sure queued entries are reaped when that bridge device goes
down, and drop the redundant nf_bridge_info_exists() test from the fake
dst detection.

This keeps netdev_priv(br-&gt;dev) alive until verdict completion, so the
embedded fake rtable and its metrics backing storage cannot be freed out
from under dst_release(). It also avoids the constant refcount bump and
avoids using ipv4-specific dst helpers for IPv6 bridge traffic.

Fixes: 34666d467cbf ("netfilter: bridge: move br_netfilter out of the core")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haoze Xie &lt;royenheart@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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The br_netfilter fake rtable is embedded in struct net_bridge and is
attached to bridged packets with skb_dst_set_noref(). If such a packet is
queued to NFQUEUE, __nf_queue() upgrades that fake dst with
skb_dst_force().

At that point the queued skb can hold a real dst reference after bridge
teardown has started. The problem is not that every bridged packet needs
its own dst reference. The problem is that NFQUEUE can keep the bridge
private fake dst alive after unregister begins.

Fix this by keeping the bridge fake dst model unchanged and pinning the
bridge master device only while the packet sits in NFQUEUE. Record the
bridge device in nf_queue_entry when the queued skb carries a bridge fake
dst, take a device reference for the queue lifetime, and drop it when the
queue entry is freed.

Also make sure queued entries are reaped when that bridge device goes
down, and drop the redundant nf_bridge_info_exists() test from the fake
dst detection.

This keeps netdev_priv(br-&gt;dev) alive until verdict completion, so the
embedded fake rtable and its metrics backing storage cannot be freed out
from under dst_release(). It also avoids the constant refcount bump and
avoids using ipv4-specific dst helpers for IPv6 bridge traffic.

Fixes: 34666d467cbf ("netfilter: bridge: move br_netfilter out of the core")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haoze Xie &lt;royenheart@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nf-next-26-06-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next</title>
<updated>2026-06-15T21:09:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-15T21:09:56+00:00</published>
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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next

The following patchset contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next.
More specifically, this contains conncount rework to address AI related
reports, assorted Netfiter updates and two small incremental updates on
IPVS:

1) Replace old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq)
   in IPVS, from Marco Crivellari.

2) Replace WARN_ON{_ONCE} by DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE in nf_tables.
   In the recent years, reporters say that the use of WARN_ON{_ONCE}
   in conjunction with panic_on_warn=1 results in DoS. Let's replace
   it by DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE so this is only exercised by test
   infrastructure and fuzzers, while also providing context to AI
   agents. From Fernando F. Mancera.

Five patches from Florian Westphal to address AI reports in the conncount
infrastructures:

3) Fix missing rcu read lock section when calling
   __ovs_ct_limit_get_zone_limit().

4) Add a dedicate lock per rbtree tree, this increases memory
   usage but it should improve scalability.

5) Add a helper function to find the rbtree node, no functional
   changes are intented.

6) Add sequence counter to detect concurrent tree modifications
   and retry lookups.

7) Add locks to GC conncount walk and address other nitpicks.

Then, several assorted updates:

8) Defensive Tree-wide addition of NULL checks for ct extensions.

9) Bail out if flowtable bypass cannot be fully set up from the
   flow offload expression, instead of lazy building a likely
   incomplete one.

10) Fix documentation for the new conn_max sysctl toggle in IPVS.

11) Add nf_dev_xmit_recursion*() helpers and use them, to address
    recent AI reports.

* tag 'nf-next-26-06-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next:
  netfilter: nf_dup_netdev: add nf_dev_xmit_recursion*() helpers and use them
  ipvs: fix doc syntax for conn_max sysctl
  netfilter: flowtable: bail out if forward path cannot be discovered
  netfilter: conntrack: check NULL when retrieving ct extension
  netfilter: nf_conncount: gc and rcu fixes
  netfilter: nf_conncount: add sequence counter to detect tree modifications
  netfilter: nf_conncount: split count_tree_node rbtree walk into helper
  netfilter: nf_conncount: use per nf_conncount_data spinlocks
  netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  netfilter: nf_tables: use DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE in packet and control paths
  ipvs: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_long_wq
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260614114605.474783-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next

The following patchset contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next.
More specifically, this contains conncount rework to address AI related
reports, assorted Netfiter updates and two small incremental updates on
IPVS:

1) Replace old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq)
   in IPVS, from Marco Crivellari.

2) Replace WARN_ON{_ONCE} by DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE in nf_tables.
   In the recent years, reporters say that the use of WARN_ON{_ONCE}
   in conjunction with panic_on_warn=1 results in DoS. Let's replace
   it by DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE so this is only exercised by test
   infrastructure and fuzzers, while also providing context to AI
   agents. From Fernando F. Mancera.

Five patches from Florian Westphal to address AI reports in the conncount
infrastructures:

3) Fix missing rcu read lock section when calling
   __ovs_ct_limit_get_zone_limit().

4) Add a dedicate lock per rbtree tree, this increases memory
   usage but it should improve scalability.

5) Add a helper function to find the rbtree node, no functional
   changes are intented.

6) Add sequence counter to detect concurrent tree modifications
   and retry lookups.

7) Add locks to GC conncount walk and address other nitpicks.

Then, several assorted updates:

8) Defensive Tree-wide addition of NULL checks for ct extensions.

9) Bail out if flowtable bypass cannot be fully set up from the
   flow offload expression, instead of lazy building a likely
   incomplete one.

10) Fix documentation for the new conn_max sysctl toggle in IPVS.

11) Add nf_dev_xmit_recursion*() helpers and use them, to address
    recent AI reports.

* tag 'nf-next-26-06-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next:
  netfilter: nf_dup_netdev: add nf_dev_xmit_recursion*() helpers and use them
  ipvs: fix doc syntax for conn_max sysctl
  netfilter: flowtable: bail out if forward path cannot be discovered
  netfilter: conntrack: check NULL when retrieving ct extension
  netfilter: nf_conncount: gc and rcu fixes
  netfilter: nf_conncount: add sequence counter to detect tree modifications
  netfilter: nf_conncount: split count_tree_node rbtree walk into helper
  netfilter: nf_conncount: use per nf_conncount_data spinlocks
  netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  netfilter: nf_tables: use DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE in packet and control paths
  ipvs: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_long_wq
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260614114605.474783-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_dup_netdev: add nf_dev_xmit_recursion*() helpers and use them</title>
<updated>2026-06-14T11:07:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-09T22:03:19+00:00</published>
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Update nft_dup and nft_fwd to use the nf_dev_xmit_recursion() helpers.
This patch also disables BH when transmitting the skb to address a
possible migration to different CPU leading to imbalanced decrementation
of the recursion counters.

This is modeled after Florian Westphal's dev_xmit_recursion*() API
available since commit 97cdcf37b57e ("net: place xmit recursion in
softnet data") according to its current state in the tree.

Fixes: 1d47b55b36d2 ("netfilter: nft_fwd_netdev: use recursion counter in neigh egress path")
Fixes: f37ad9127039 ("netfilter: nf_dup_netdev: Move the recursion counter struct netdev_xmit")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Update nft_dup and nft_fwd to use the nf_dev_xmit_recursion() helpers.
This patch also disables BH when transmitting the skb to address a
possible migration to different CPU leading to imbalanced decrementation
of the recursion counters.

This is modeled after Florian Westphal's dev_xmit_recursion*() API
available since commit 97cdcf37b57e ("net: place xmit recursion in
softnet data") according to its current state in the tree.

Fixes: 1d47b55b36d2 ("netfilter: nft_fwd_netdev: use recursion counter in neigh egress path")
Fixes: f37ad9127039 ("netfilter: nf_dup_netdev: Move the recursion counter struct netdev_xmit")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: conntrack: check NULL when retrieving ct extension</title>
<updated>2026-06-14T10:51:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-08T16:14:36+00:00</published>
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nf_ct_ext_find() might return NULL if ct extension is not found.

Add also the null checks to:

- nfct_help()
- nfct_help_data()
- nfct_seqadj()
- nfct_nat()

This is defensive, for safety reasons.

nf_ct_ext_find() used to return NULL if the extension is stale for
unconfirmed conntracks if the genid validation fails.

Skip NULL check in nf_nat_inet_fn() given this is valid to be NULL
for non-initialized ct nat extensions.

While at it, fetch ct helper area in nf_ct_expect_related_report() only
once and pass it on to other ancilliary functions. Replace WARN_ON()
by WARN_ON_ONCE() in nf_ct_unlink_expect_report().

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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nf_ct_ext_find() might return NULL if ct extension is not found.

Add also the null checks to:

- nfct_help()
- nfct_help_data()
- nfct_seqadj()
- nfct_nat()

This is defensive, for safety reasons.

nf_ct_ext_find() used to return NULL if the extension is stale for
unconfirmed conntracks if the genid validation fails.

Skip NULL check in nf_nat_inet_fn() given this is valid to be NULL
for non-initialized ct nat extensions.

While at it, fetch ct helper area in nf_ct_expect_related_report() only
once and pass it on to other ancilliary functions. Replace WARN_ON()
by WARN_ON_ONCE() in nf_ct_unlink_expect_report().

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2026-06-11T21:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-11T21:29:53+00:00</published>
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.1-rc8).

Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/txgbe/txgbe_aml.c
  f67aead16e85 ("net: txgbe: rework service event handling")
  57d39faed4c9 ("net: txgbe: improve functions of AML 40G devices")

net/rds/info.c
  512db8267b73 ("rds: mark snapshot pages dirty in rds_info_getsockopt()")
  6e94eeb2a2a6 ("rds: convert to getsockopt_iter")

Adjacent changes:

include/net/sock.h
  1ee90b77b727 ("net: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs")
  f0de88303d5e ("net: make is_skb_wmem() available to modules")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.1-rc8).

Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/txgbe/txgbe_aml.c
  f67aead16e85 ("net: txgbe: rework service event handling")
  57d39faed4c9 ("net: txgbe: improve functions of AML 40G devices")

net/rds/info.c
  512db8267b73 ("rds: mark snapshot pages dirty in rds_info_getsockopt()")
  6e94eeb2a2a6 ("rds: convert to getsockopt_iter")

Adjacent changes:

include/net/sock.h
  1ee90b77b727 ("net: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs")
  f0de88303d5e ("net: make is_skb_wmem() available to modules")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack: destroy stale expectfn expectations on unregister</title>
<updated>2026-06-10T15:58:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Weiming Shi</name>
<email>bestswngs@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-03T07:38:17+00:00</published>
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NAT helpers such as nf_nat_h323 store a raw pointer to module text in
exp-&gt;expectfn (e.g. ip_nat_q931_expect). nf_ct_helper_expectfn_unregister()
only unlinks the callback descriptor and never walks the expectation table,
so an expectation pending at module removal survives with a dangling
exp-&gt;expectfn into freed module text.

When the expected connection arrives, init_conntrack() invokes
exp-&gt;expectfn(), now a stale pointer into the unloaded module. Reproduced
on a KASAN build by loading the H.323 helpers, creating a Q.931
expectation, unloading nf_nat_h323, then connecting to the expected port:

 Oops: int3: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 RIP: 0010:0xffffffffa06102d1
  init_conntrack.isra.0 (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1862)
  nf_conntrack_in (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2049)
  ipv4_conntrack_local (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c:223)
  nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)
  __ip_local_out (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:120)
  __tcp_transmit_skb (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1715)
  tcp_connect (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:4374)
  tcp_v4_connect (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:345)
  __sys_connect (net/socket.c:2167)
 Modules linked in: nf_conntrack_h323 [last unloaded: nf_nat_h323]

Reaching the dangling state requires CAP_SYS_MODULE in the initial user
namespace to remove a NAT helper that still has live expectations, so this
is a robustness fix; leaving an expectation pointing at freed text is wrong
regardless.

Add nf_ct_helper_expectfn_destroy(), which walks the expectation table and
drops every expectation whose -&gt;expectfn matches the descriptor being torn
down. Call it from each NAT helper's exit path after the existing RCU grace
period, so no expectation outlives the code it points at and no extra
synchronize_rcu() is introduced. With the fix, the same reproducer runs to
completion without the Oops.

Fixes: f587de0e2feb ("[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add H.323 helper port")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei &lt;xmei5@asu.edu&gt;
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi &lt;bestswngs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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NAT helpers such as nf_nat_h323 store a raw pointer to module text in
exp-&gt;expectfn (e.g. ip_nat_q931_expect). nf_ct_helper_expectfn_unregister()
only unlinks the callback descriptor and never walks the expectation table,
so an expectation pending at module removal survives with a dangling
exp-&gt;expectfn into freed module text.

When the expected connection arrives, init_conntrack() invokes
exp-&gt;expectfn(), now a stale pointer into the unloaded module. Reproduced
on a KASAN build by loading the H.323 helpers, creating a Q.931
expectation, unloading nf_nat_h323, then connecting to the expected port:

 Oops: int3: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 RIP: 0010:0xffffffffa06102d1
  init_conntrack.isra.0 (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1862)
  nf_conntrack_in (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2049)
  ipv4_conntrack_local (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c:223)
  nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)
  __ip_local_out (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:120)
  __tcp_transmit_skb (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1715)
  tcp_connect (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:4374)
  tcp_v4_connect (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:345)
  __sys_connect (net/socket.c:2167)
 Modules linked in: nf_conntrack_h323 [last unloaded: nf_nat_h323]

Reaching the dangling state requires CAP_SYS_MODULE in the initial user
namespace to remove a NAT helper that still has live expectations, so this
is a robustness fix; leaving an expectation pointing at freed text is wrong
regardless.

Add nf_ct_helper_expectfn_destroy(), which walks the expectation table and
drops every expectation whose -&gt;expectfn matches the descriptor being torn
down. Call it from each NAT helper's exit path after the existing RCU grace
period, so no expectation outlives the code it points at and no extra
synchronize_rcu() is introduced. With the fix, the same reproducer runs to
completion without the Oops.

Fixes: f587de0e2feb ("[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add H.323 helper port")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei &lt;xmei5@asu.edu&gt;
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi &lt;bestswngs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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