From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, edumazet@kernel.org, horms@kernel.org,
fw@strlen.de, ja@ssi.bg
Subject: [PATCH net-next 09/15] netfilter: nft_exthdr: avoid 60 bytes stack buffer in TCP option mangling
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:56:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261018005638.1776148-10-pablo@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261018005638.1776148-1-pablo@netfilter.org>
From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
nft_exthdr_tcp_set_eval() and nft_exthdr_tcp_strip_eval() fetched the
TCP header and options through nft_tcp_header_pointer(), which calls
skb_header_pointer() a second time for the full tcphdr_len into a 60
bytes stack buffer. Since commit 28427f368f0e ("netfilter: nft_exthdr:
Fix non-linear header modification") both functions then call
skb_ensure_writable() and re-read the header from skb->data, so the
buffer was never used.
Only the 20 bytes fixed header is needed to learn tcphdr_len, so fetch
just that, validate the length as before, and let skb_ensure_writable()
pull the rest. This also drops the 60 bytes stack buffer from both
functions.
Comparison of performance in mpps:
op linear/non-linear before after delta
==================================================================
set, non-linear 4.193 4.348 +3.7% mpps
strip, non-linear 4.184 4.434 +6.0% mpps
set, linear 5.302 5.427 +2.4% mpps
strip, linear 5.452 5.527 +1.4% mpss
Comparison of performance in ns/expression:
op linear/non-linear before after delta
==================================================================
set, non-linear 34.6 25.3 -9.4 ns
strip, non-linear 35.2 20.8 -14.3 ns
set, linear 23.6 19.7 -3.9 ns
strip, linear 22.9 19.8 -3.1 ns
./scripts/bloat-o-meter exthdr_before.o exthdr_after.o
add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 3/0 up/down: 233/-207 (26)
Function old new delta
nft_exthdr_tcp_eval 792 946 +154
nft_exthdr_tcp_strip_eval 825 891 +66
nft_exthdr_tcp_set_eval 602 615 +13
nft_tcp_header_pointer.part.constprop 207 - -207
Total: Before=6527, After=6553, chg +0.40%
This also allow the compiler to inline nft_tcp_header_pointer inside
nft_exthdr_tcp_eval() which could yield some minimal performance gain.
This patch also updates the logic to drop malformed packets, before this
patch NFT_BREAK was used as a verdict instead.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c b/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
index 3492426dccf7..861bab93f435 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
@@ -233,16 +233,23 @@ static void nft_exthdr_tcp_set_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr,
struct nft_regs *regs,
const struct nft_pktinfo *pkt)
{
- u8 buff[sizeof(struct tcphdr) + MAX_TCP_OPTION_SPACE];
struct nft_exthdr *priv = nft_expr_priv(expr);
unsigned int i, optl, tcphdr_len, offset;
- struct tcphdr *tcph;
+ struct tcphdr *tcph, _tcph;
u8 *opt;
- tcph = nft_tcp_header_pointer(pkt, sizeof(buff), buff, &tcphdr_len);
+ if (pkt->tprot != IPPROTO_TCP || pkt->fragoff)
+ goto err;
+
+ tcph = skb_header_pointer(pkt->skb, nft_thoff(pkt), sizeof(_tcph), &_tcph);
if (!tcph)
goto err;
+ tcphdr_len = __tcp_hdrlen(tcph);
+ if (tcphdr_len < sizeof(*tcph) ||
+ tcphdr_len > sizeof(*tcph) + MAX_TCP_OPTION_SPACE)
+ goto err;
+
if (skb_ensure_writable(pkt->skb, nft_thoff(pkt) + tcphdr_len))
goto err;
@@ -313,16 +320,23 @@ static void nft_exthdr_tcp_strip_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr,
struct nft_regs *regs,
const struct nft_pktinfo *pkt)
{
- u8 buff[sizeof(struct tcphdr) + MAX_TCP_OPTION_SPACE];
struct nft_exthdr *priv = nft_expr_priv(expr);
unsigned int i, tcphdr_len, optl;
- struct tcphdr *tcph;
+ struct tcphdr *tcph, _tcph;
u8 *opt;
- tcph = nft_tcp_header_pointer(pkt, sizeof(buff), buff, &tcphdr_len);
+ if (pkt->tprot != IPPROTO_TCP || pkt->fragoff)
+ goto err;
+
+ tcph = skb_header_pointer(pkt->skb, nft_thoff(pkt), sizeof(_tcph), &_tcph);
if (!tcph)
goto err;
+ tcphdr_len = __tcp_hdrlen(tcph);
+ if (tcphdr_len < sizeof(*tcph) ||
+ tcphdr_len > sizeof(*tcph) + MAX_TCP_OPTION_SPACE)
+ goto err;
+
if (skb_ensure_writable(pkt->skb, nft_thoff(pkt) + tcphdr_len))
goto drop;
--
2.47.3
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2026-10-18 0:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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2026-10-18 0:56 ` [PATCH net-next 13/15] netfilter: flowtable: populate tunnel tuple regardless of inner protocol Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-10-18 0:56 ` [PATCH net-next 14/15] netfilter: flowtable: add encap_proto to flow_offload_tunnel Pablo Neira Ayuso
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