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* [PATCH nf,v1 1/4] netfilter: ctnetlink: do not allow to reset helper on existing conntrack
@ 2026-06-23  5:46 Pablo Neira Ayuso
  2026-06-23  5:46 ` [PATCH nf,v1 2/4] netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: store master_tuple in expectation Pablo Neira Ayuso
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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso @ 2026-06-23  5:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netfilter-devel

This feature allows to reset a helper for an existing conntrack, but it
is not safe. This requires a synchronized_rcu() call after resetting the
helper, which is going to be expensive for a large batch of conntrack
entries. This also needs to call to the .destroy callback to release the
GRE/PPTP mappings to fix it.

This feature antedates the creation of the conntrack-tools and I cannot
find a good use-case for this. Given that I cannot find any user in the
netfilter.org userspace tree, I prefer to remove this feature.

Fixes: c1d10adb4a52 ("[NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink port for nf_conntrack")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
v1: resend to let sashiko pick in with this batch.

 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 4e78d2482989..cb38ef42e9e6 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -1953,19 +1953,6 @@ static int ctnetlink_change_helper(struct nf_conn *ct,
 		return err;
 	}
 
-	if (!strcmp(helpname, "") && help) {
-		helper = rcu_dereference(help->helper);
-		if (helper) {
-			/* we had a helper before ... */
-			nf_ct_remove_expectations(ct);
-			RCU_INIT_POINTER(help->helper, NULL);
-			if (refcount_dec_and_test(&helper->ct_refcnt))
-				kfree_rcu(helper, rcu);
-		}
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	helper = __nf_conntrack_helper_find(helpname, nf_ct_l3num(ct),
 					    nf_ct_protonum(ct));
 	if (helper == NULL) {
-- 
2.47.3


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