Patch "net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-ipv6-increment-outxxx-counters-after-netfilter-hook.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 23:19:36 CEST 2018
From: Jeff Barnhill <0xeffeff@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:29:47 +0000
Subject: net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook

From: Jeff Barnhill <0xeffeff@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 71a1c915238c970cd9bdd5bf158b1279d6b6d55b ]

At the end of ip6_forward(), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS and
IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS are incremented immediately before the NF_HOOK call
for NFPROTO_IPV6 / NF_INET_FORWARD.  As a result, these counters get
incremented regardless of whether or not the netfilter hook allows the
packet to continue being processed.  This change increments the counters
in ip6_forward_finish() so that it will not happen if the netfilter hook
chooses to terminate the packet, which is similar to how IPv4 works.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Barnhill <0xeffeff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -375,6 +375,11 @@ static int ip6_forward_proxy_check(struc
 static inline int ip6_forward_finish(struct net *net, struct sock *sk,
 				     struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
+	struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
+
+	__IP6_INC_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS);
+	__IP6_ADD_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS, skb->len);
+
 	return dst_output(net, sk, skb);
 }
 
@@ -568,8 +573,6 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 	hdr->hop_limit--;
 
-	__IP6_INC_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS);
-	__IP6_ADD_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS, skb->len);
 	return NF_HOOK(NFPROTO_IPV6, NF_INET_FORWARD,
 		       net, NULL, skb, skb->dev, dst->dev,
 		       ip6_forward_finish);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 0xeffeff@gmail.com are

queue-4.15/net-ipv6-increment-outxxx-counters-after-netfilter-hook.patch