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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: [PATCH net 4/9] netfilter: nf_conncount: fix zone comparison in tuple dedup
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:37:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710143733.29741-5-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260710143733.29741-1-fw@strlen.de>

From: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>

The "already exists" dedup logic in __nf_conncount_add() decides
whether a connection has already been counted and can be skipped instead
of incrementing the connlimit count.  It compares the conntrack zone of a
list entry with the zone of the connection being added using
nf_ct_zone_id() and nf_ct_zone_equal(), passing conn->zone.dir or
zone->dir as the direction argument.

Those helpers take enum ip_conntrack_dir values: IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL is 0
and IP_CT_DIR_REPLY is 1.  However, zone->dir is a u8 bitmask:
NF_CT_ZONE_DIR_ORIG is 1, NF_CT_ZONE_DIR_REPL is 2 and
NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_DIR is 3.  Passing that bitmask as the enum direction
shifts the meaning of every non-zero value.  An ORIG-only zone passes 1
and is tested as REPLY, while REPL-only and default zones pass 2 or 3 and
test bits beyond the valid direction range.  In those cases
nf_ct_zone_id() can fall back to NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_ID instead of using
the real zone id, so different zones can be treated as equal and dedup
collapses to tuple equality alone.

nf_conncount stores and compares the original-direction tuple for a
connection.  If an skb already has an attached conntrack entry,
get_ct_or_tuple_from_skb() explicitly copies
ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL].tuple, regardless of the packet's
ctinfo.  Therefore the zone comparison in the tuple dedup path must use
IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL as well; the zone direction bitmask describes where a
zone id applies, not which direction this conncount tuple represents.

Fix the two dedup comparisons by passing IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL directly.
Do not special-case NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_DIR and do not compare raw zone
ids: using the existing helpers with IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL preserves the
direction-aware NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_ID fallback.  A default bidirectional
zone contains the ORIG bit, so it naturally returns the real zone id;
reply-only zones continue to fall back for original-direction tuple
comparisons.

Fixes: 21ba8847f857 ("netfilter: nf_conncount: Fix garbage collection with zones")
Fixes: b36e4523d4d5 ("netfilter: nf_conncount: fix garbage collection confirm race")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang <yangyx22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Ao Wang <wangao@seu.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng <fengxw06@126.com>
Reported-by: Qi Li <qli01@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Ke Xu <xuke@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
index 91582069f6d2..e9ea6d9466e7 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
@@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ static int __nf_conncount_add(struct net *net,
 			/* Not found, but might be about to be confirmed */
 			if (PTR_ERR(found) == -EAGAIN) {
 				if (nf_ct_tuple_equal(&conn->tuple, &tuple) &&
-				    nf_ct_zone_id(&conn->zone, conn->zone.dir) ==
-				    nf_ct_zone_id(zone, zone->dir))
+				    nf_ct_zone_id(&conn->zone, IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL) ==
+				    nf_ct_zone_id(zone, IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL))
 					goto out_put; /* already exists */
 			} else {
 				collect++;
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static int __nf_conncount_add(struct net *net,
 		found_ct = nf_ct_tuplehash_to_ctrack(found);
 
 		if (nf_ct_tuple_equal(&conn->tuple, &tuple) &&
-		    nf_ct_zone_equal(found_ct, zone, zone->dir)) {
+		    nf_ct_zone_equal(found_ct, zone, IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL)) {
 			/*
 			 * We should not see tuples twice unless someone hooks
 			 * this into a table without "-p tcp --syn".
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-10 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-10 14:37 [PATCH net 0/9] netfilter: updates for net Florian Westphal
2026-07-10 14:37 ` [PATCH net 1/9] netfilter: xt_nat: reject unsupported target families Florian Westphal
2026-07-10 14:37 ` [PATCH net 2/9] netfilter: ecache: fix inverted time_after() check Florian Westphal
2026-07-10 14:37 ` [PATCH net 3/9] netfilter: bridge: fix stale prevhdr pointer in br_ip6_fragment() Florian Westphal
2026-07-10 14:37 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-07-10 14:37 ` [PATCH net 5/9] selftests: netfilter: add bridge tunnel flowtable regression Florian Westphal
2026-07-10 14:37 ` [PATCH net 6/9] netfilter: flowtable: use correct direction to set up tunnel route Florian Westphal
2026-07-10 14:37 ` [PATCH net 7/9] ipvs: reload ip header after head reallocation Florian Westphal
2026-07-10 14:37 ` [PATCH net 8/9] ipvs: fix more places with wrong ipv6 transport offsets Florian Westphal
2026-07-10 14:37 ` [PATCH net 9/9] netfilter: xt_physdev: masks are not c-strings Florian Westphal

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