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<title>linux.git/net/netfilter/nft_objref.c, branch v6.11</title>
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<title>netfilter: nf_tables: report use refcount overflow</title>
<updated>2023-07-05T12:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
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<published>2023-06-28T14:24:27+00:00</published>
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Overflow use refcount checks are not complete.

Add helper function to deal with object reference counter tracking.
Report -EMFILE in case UINT_MAX is reached.

nft_use_dec() splats in case that reference counter underflows,
which should not ever happen.

Add nft_use_inc_restore() and nft_use_dec_restore() which are used
to restore reference counter from error and abort paths.

Use u32 in nft_flowtable and nft_object since helper functions cannot
work on bitfields.

Remove the few early incomplete checks now that the helper functions
are in place and used to check for refcount overflow.

Fixes: 96518518cc41 ("netfilter: add nftables")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Overflow use refcount checks are not complete.

Add helper function to deal with object reference counter tracking.
Report -EMFILE in case UINT_MAX is reached.

nft_use_dec() splats in case that reference counter underflows,
which should not ever happen.

Add nft_use_inc_restore() and nft_use_dec_restore() which are used
to restore reference counter from error and abort paths.

Use u32 in nft_flowtable and nft_object since helper functions cannot
work on bitfields.

Remove the few early incomplete checks now that the helper functions
are in place and used to check for refcount overflow.

Fixes: 96518518cc41 ("netfilter: add nftables")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: deactivate anonymous set from preparation phase</title>
<updated>2023-05-03T06:24:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-02T08:25:24+00:00</published>
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Toggle deleted anonymous sets as inactive in the next generation, so
users cannot perform any update on it. Clear the generation bitmask
in case the transaction is aborted.

The following KASAN splat shows a set element deletion for a bound
anonymous set that has been already removed in the same transaction.

[   64.921510] ==================================================================
[   64.923123] BUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in nf_tables_commit+0xa24/0x1490 [nf_tables]
[   64.924745] Write of size 8 at addr dead000000000122 by task test/890
[   64.927903] CPU: 3 PID: 890 Comm: test Not tainted 6.3.0+ #253
[   64.931120] Call Trace:
[   64.932699]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[   64.934292]  dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x50
[   64.935908]  ? nf_tables_commit+0xa24/0x1490 [nf_tables]
[   64.937551]  kasan_report+0xda/0x120
[   64.939186]  ? nf_tables_commit+0xa24/0x1490 [nf_tables]
[   64.940814]  nf_tables_commit+0xa24/0x1490 [nf_tables]
[   64.942452]  ? __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2d/0x60
[   64.944070]  ? nf_tables_setelem_notify+0x190/0x190 [nf_tables]
[   64.945710]  ? kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[   64.947323]  nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x709/0xd90 [nfnetlink]
[   64.948898]  ? nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x480/0x480 [nfnetlink]

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Toggle deleted anonymous sets as inactive in the next generation, so
users cannot perform any update on it. Clear the generation bitmask
in case the transaction is aborted.

The following KASAN splat shows a set element deletion for a bound
anonymous set that has been already removed in the same transaction.

[   64.921510] ==================================================================
[   64.923123] BUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in nf_tables_commit+0xa24/0x1490 [nf_tables]
[   64.924745] Write of size 8 at addr dead000000000122 by task test/890
[   64.927903] CPU: 3 PID: 890 Comm: test Not tainted 6.3.0+ #253
[   64.931120] Call Trace:
[   64.932699]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[   64.934292]  dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x50
[   64.935908]  ? nf_tables_commit+0xa24/0x1490 [nf_tables]
[   64.937551]  kasan_report+0xda/0x120
[   64.939186]  ? nf_tables_commit+0xa24/0x1490 [nf_tables]
[   64.940814]  nf_tables_commit+0xa24/0x1490 [nf_tables]
[   64.942452]  ? __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2d/0x60
[   64.944070]  ? nf_tables_setelem_notify+0x190/0x190 [nf_tables]
[   64.945710]  ? kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
[   64.947323]  nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x709/0xd90 [nfnetlink]
[   64.948898]  ? nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x480/0x480 [nfnetlink]

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: avoid retpoline overhead for objref calls</title>
<updated>2023-01-18T12:05:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-03T12:47:16+00:00</published>
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objref expression is builtin, so avoid calls to it for
RETOLINE=y builds.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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objref expression is builtin, so avoid calls to it for
RETOLINE=y builds.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: Extend nft_expr_ops::dump callback parameters</title>
<updated>2022-11-15T09:46:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Sutter</name>
<email>phil@nwl.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-14T21:45:58+00:00</published>
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Add a 'reset' flag just like with nft_object_ops::dump. This will be
useful to reset "anonymous stateful objects", e.g. simple rule counters.

No functional change intended.

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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Add a 'reset' flag just like with nft_object_ops::dump. This will be
useful to reset "anonymous stateful objects", e.g. simple rule counters.

No functional change intended.

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>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nft_objref: make it builtin</title>
<updated>2022-10-25T11:48:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-21T14:17:53+00:00</published>
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nft_objref is needed to reference named objects, it makes
no sense to disable it.

Before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	 filename
  4014	    424	      0	   4438	 nft_objref.o
  4174	   1128	      0	   5302	 nft_objref.ko
359351	  15276	    864	 375491	 nf_tables.ko
After:
  text	   data	    bss	    dec	 filename
  3815	    408	      0	   4223	 nft_objref.o
363161	  15692	    864	 379717	 nf_tables.ko

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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nft_objref is needed to reference named objects, it makes
no sense to disable it.

Before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	 filename
  4014	    424	      0	   4438	 nft_objref.o
  4174	   1128	      0	   5302	 nft_objref.ko
359351	  15276	    864	 375491	 nf_tables.ko
After:
  text	   data	    bss	    dec	 filename
  3815	    408	      0	   4223	 nft_objref.o
363161	  15692	    864	 379717	 nf_tables.ko

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>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_tables: do not reduce read-only expressions</title>
<updated>2022-03-19T23:29:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-14T17:23:00+00:00</published>
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Skip register tracking for expressions that perform read-only operations
on the registers. Define and use a cookie pointer NFT_REDUCE_READONLY to
avoid defining stubs for these expressions.

This patch re-enables register tracking which was disabled in ed5f85d42290
("netfilter: nf_tables: disable register tracking"). Follow up patches
add remaining register tracking for existing expressions.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Skip register tracking for expressions that perform read-only operations
on the registers. Define and use a cookie pointer NFT_REDUCE_READONLY to
avoid defining stubs for these expressions.

This patch re-enables register tracking which was disabled in ed5f85d42290
("netfilter: nf_tables: disable register tracking"). Follow up patches
add remaining register tracking for existing expressions.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: add and use nft_set_do_lookup helper</title>
<updated>2021-05-28T19:11:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-13T20:29:55+00:00</published>
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Followup patch will add a CONFIG_RETPOLINE wrapper to avoid
the ops-&gt;lookup() indirection cost for retpoline builds.

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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Followup patch will add a CONFIG_RETPOLINE wrapper to avoid
the ops-&gt;lookup() indirection cost for retpoline builds.

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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nftables: add catch-all set element support</title>
<updated>2021-04-27T16:06:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-27T16:05:55+00:00</published>
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This patch extends the set infrastructure to add a special catch-all set
element. If the lookup fails to find an element (or range) in the set,
then the catch-all element is selected. Users can specify a mapping,
expression(s) and timeout to be attached to the catch-all element.

This patch adds a catchall list to the set, this list might contain more
than one single catch-all element (e.g. in case that the catch-all
element is removed and a new one is added in the same transaction).
However, most of the time, there will be either one element or no
elements at all in this list.

The catch-all element is identified via NFT_SET_ELEM_CATCHALL flag and
such special element has no NFTA_SET_ELEM_KEY attribute. There is a new
nft_set_elem_catchall object that stores a reference to the dummy
catch-all element (catchall-&gt;elem) whose layout is the same of the set
element type to reuse the existing set element codebase.

The set size does not apply to the catch-all element, users can define a
catch-all element even if the set is full.

The check for valid set element flags hava been updates to report
EOPNOTSUPP in case userspace requests flags that are not supported when
using new userspace nftables and old kernel.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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This patch extends the set infrastructure to add a special catch-all set
element. If the lookup fails to find an element (or range) in the set,
then the catch-all element is selected. Users can specify a mapping,
expression(s) and timeout to be attached to the catch-all element.

This patch adds a catchall list to the set, this list might contain more
than one single catch-all element (e.g. in case that the catch-all
element is removed and a new one is added in the same transaction).
However, most of the time, there will be either one element or no
elements at all in this list.

The catch-all element is identified via NFT_SET_ELEM_CATCHALL flag and
such special element has no NFTA_SET_ELEM_KEY attribute. There is a new
nft_set_elem_catchall object that stores a reference to the dummy
catch-all element (catchall-&gt;elem) whose layout is the same of the set
element type to reuse the existing set element codebase.

The set size does not apply to the catch-all element, users can define a
catch-all element even if the set is full.

The check for valid set element flags hava been updates to report
EOPNOTSUPP in case userspace requests flags that are not supported when
using new userspace nftables and old kernel.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: nftables: add nft_parse_register_load() and use it</title>
<updated>2021-01-27T21:53:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-25T16:28:18+00:00</published>
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This new function combines the netlink register attribute parser
and the load validation function.

This update requires to replace:

	enum nft_registers      sreg:8;

in many of the expression private areas otherwise compiler complains
with:

	error: cannot take address of bit-field ‘sreg’

when passing the register field as reference.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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This new function combines the netlink register attribute parser
and the load validation function.

This update requires to replace:

	enum nft_registers      sreg:8;

in many of the expression private areas otherwise compiler complains
with:

	error: cannot take address of bit-field ‘sreg’

when passing the register field as reference.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to kernel modules</title>
<updated>2020-06-24T22:50:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Gill</name>
<email>rrobgill@protonmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-21T05:27:36+00:00</published>
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The user tool modinfo is used to get information on kernel modules, including a
description where it is available.

This patch adds a brief MODULE_DESCRIPTION to netfilter kernel modules
(descriptions taken from Kconfig file or code comments)

Signed-off-by: Rob Gill &lt;rrobgill@protonmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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The user tool modinfo is used to get information on kernel modules, including a
description where it is available.

This patch adds a brief MODULE_DESCRIPTION to netfilter kernel modules
(descriptions taken from Kconfig file or code comments)

Signed-off-by: Rob Gill &lt;rrobgill@protonmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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