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 8/9] ipvs: reset full ip_vs_seq structs in ip_vs_conn_new
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 14:57:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260703125709.16493-9-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260703125709.16493-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Commit 9a05475cebdd ("ipvs: avoid kmem_cache_zalloc in
ip_vs_conn_new") changed ip_vs_conn_new() to allocate an ip_vs_conn
object with kmem_cache_alloc(). The function then initializes many
fields explicitly, but only resets in_seq.delta and out_seq.delta in the
two struct ip_vs_seq members.
That leaves init_seq and previous_delta uninitialized. This is normally
harmless while the corresponding IP_VS_CONN_F_IN_SEQ or
IP_VS_CONN_F_OUT_SEQ flag is clear. For connections learned from a sync
message, however, ip_vs_proc_conn() preserves those flags from
IP_VS_CONN_F_BACKUP_MASK and passes opt=NULL when the message omits
IPVS_OPT_SEQ_DATA. In that case the new connection can be hashed with
SEQ flags set but with the rest of in_seq/out_seq still containing stale
slab data.
When a packet for such a connection is later handled by an IPVS
application helper, vs_fix_seq() and vs_fix_ack_seq() use
previous_delta and init_seq to rewrite TCP sequence numbers. A malformed
sync message can therefore make forwarded packets carry stale slab bytes
in their TCP seq/ack numbers, and can also corrupt the forwarded TCP
flow.
Reset both struct ip_vs_seq members completely before publishing the
connection. This matches the existing "reset struct ip_vs_seq" comment
and keeps the sequence-adjustment gates inactive unless valid sequence
data is installed later.
Fixes: 9a05475cebdd ("ipvs: avoid kmem_cache_zalloc in ip_vs_conn_new")
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/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
index cb36641f8d1c..6ed2622363f0 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
@@ -1420,8 +1420,8 @@ ip_vs_conn_new(const struct ip_vs_conn_param *p, int dest_af,
cp->app = NULL;
cp->app_data = NULL;
/* reset struct ip_vs_seq */
- cp->in_seq.delta = 0;
- cp->out_seq.delta = 0;
+ memset(&cp->in_seq, 0, sizeof(cp->in_seq));
+ memset(&cp->out_seq, 0, sizeof(cp->out_seq));
if (unlikely(flags & IP_VS_CONN_F_NO_CPORT)) {
int af_id = ip_vs_af_index(cp->af);
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-03 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-03 12:57 [PATCH net 0/9] netfilter: updates for net Florian Westphal
2026-07-03 12:57 ` [PATCH net 1/9] netfilter: nf_nat_sip: reload possible stale data pointer Florian Westphal
2026-07-03 12:57 ` [PATCH net 2/9] netfilter: xt_u32: reject invalid shift counts Florian Westphal
2026-07-03 12:57 ` [PATCH net 3/9] netfilter: xt_rateest: fix u64 truncation in xt_rateest_mt() Florian Westphal
2026-07-03 12:57 ` [PATCH net 4/9] netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: cap to maximum number of expectation per master on updates Florian Westphal
2026-07-03 12:57 ` [PATCH net 5/9] netfilter: ip6tables: mark malformed IPv6 extension headers for hotdrop Florian Westphal
2026-07-03 12:57 ` [PATCH net 6/9] netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: get command skips end element with open interval Florian Westphal
2026-07-03 12:57 ` [PATCH net 7/9] ipvs: fix PMTU for GUE/GRE tunnel ICMP errors Florian Westphal
2026-07-03 12:57 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-07-03 12:57 ` [PATCH net 9/9] netfilter: xt_connmark: reject invalid shift parameters Florian Westphal
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