From: anders.grahn@gmail.com
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anders Grahn <anders.grahn@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] netfilter: nft_counter: Fix reset of counters on 32bit archs
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 14:48:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260203134831.1205444-1-anders.grahn@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Anders Grahn <anders.grahn@gmail.com>
nft_counter_reset() calls u64_stats_add() with a negative value to reset
the counter. This will work on 64bit archs, hence the negative value
added will wrap as a 64bit value which then can wrap the stat counter as
well.
On 32bit archs, the added negative value will wrap as a 32bit value and
_not_ wrapping the stat counter properly. In most cases, this would just
lead to a very large 32bit value being added to the stat counter.
Fix by introducing u64_stats_sub().
Fixes: 4a1d3acd6ea8 ("netfilter: nft_counter: Use u64_stats_t for statistic.")
Signed-off-by: Anders Grahn <anders.grahn@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h | 10 ++++++++++
net/netfilter/nft_counter.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h b/include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h
index 457879938fc1..3366090a86bd 100644
--- a/include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h
+++ b/include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ static inline void u64_stats_add(u64_stats_t *p, unsigned long val)
local64_add(val, &p->v);
}
+static inline void u64_stats_sub(u64_stats_t *p, s64 val)
+{
+ local64_sub(val, &p->v);
+}
+
static inline void u64_stats_inc(u64_stats_t *p)
{
local64_inc(&p->v);
@@ -130,6 +135,11 @@ static inline void u64_stats_add(u64_stats_t *p, unsigned long val)
p->v += val;
}
+static inline void u64_stats_sub(u64_stats_t *p, s64 val)
+{
+ p->v -= val;
+}
+
static inline void u64_stats_inc(u64_stats_t *p)
{
p->v++;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c b/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
index cc7325329496..0d70325280cc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ static void nft_counter_reset(struct nft_counter_percpu_priv *priv,
nft_sync = this_cpu_ptr(&nft_counter_sync);
u64_stats_update_begin(nft_sync);
- u64_stats_add(&this_cpu->packets, -total->packets);
- u64_stats_add(&this_cpu->bytes, -total->bytes);
+ u64_stats_sub(&this_cpu->packets, total->packets);
+ u64_stats_sub(&this_cpu->bytes, total->bytes);
u64_stats_update_end(nft_sync);
local_bh_enable();
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-03 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-03 13:48 anders.grahn [this message]
2026-02-03 13:54 ` [PATCH v3] netfilter: nft_counter: Fix reset of counters on 32bit archs Florian Westphal
2026-02-04 2:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
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