[PATCH bpf-next v5 4/7] netfilter: disallow bpf hook attachment at same priority

Florian Westphal
2023-04-21T17:03:58Z

This is just to avoid ordering issues between multiple bpf programs,
this could be removed later in case it turns out to be too cautious.

bpf prog could still be shared with non-bpf hook, otherwise we'd have to
make conntrack hook registration fail just because a bpf program has
same priority.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
no changes since last version

net/netfilter/core.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/core.c b/net/netfilter/core.c
index 358220b58521..f0783e42108b 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/core.c
@@ -119,6 +119,18 @@ nf_hook_entries_grow(const struct nf_hook_entries *old,
for (i = 0; i < old_entries; i++) {
if (orig_ops[i] != &dummy_ops)
alloc_entries++;
+
+ /* Restrict BPF hook type to force a unique priority, not
+ * shared at attach time.
+ *
+ * This is mainly to avoid ordering issues between two
+ * different bpf programs, this doesn't prevent a normal
+ * hook at same priority as a bpf one (we don't want to
+ * prevent defrag, conntrack, iptables etc from attaching).
+ */
+ if (reg->priority == orig_ops[i]->priority &&
+ reg->hook_ops_type == NF_HOOK_OP_BPF)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
}
}

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