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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 07/15] netfilter: nft_flow_offload: do not offload multicast
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 04:12:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261113031251.2437074-8-pablo@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261113031251.2437074-1-pablo@netfilter.org>

From: Koral Ilgun <koral.ilgun@adtran.com>

A flow holds one output per direction, which it resolves when it is
added. The outputs of a multicast route change when listeners join
or leave. So a multicast flow in the flowtable continues to send to
the output that it resolved, also after the last listener left, and
the counters of the multicast routing stop.

A ruleset can keep multicast out with a match before the flow
offload statement. Without one, IPv4 multicast stays out of the
flowtable only because the reverse route lookup in nft_flow_route()
refuses a multicast source address. The IPv6 route lookup has no such
check, so IPv6 multicast that ip6mr forwards goes into the flowtable.

Skip a multicast destination for both families in the flow offload
expression itself, so that the result no longer depends on the
ruleset or on the route lookup.

Signed-off-by: Koral Ilgun <koral.ilgun@adtran.com>
Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c b/net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c
index d3c5651dd699..530e20c7fd45 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h>
 #include <linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h>
 #include <net/ip.h>
+#include <net/ipv6.h>
 #include <net/flow.h>
 #include <net/netfilter/nf_tables.h>
 #include <net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.h>
@@ -33,6 +34,10 @@ static bool nft_flow_offload_skip(struct sk_buff *skb, int family)
 
 		if (unlikely(opt->optlen))
 			return true;
+
+		return ipv4_is_multicast(ip_hdr(skb)->daddr);
+	} else if (family == NFPROTO_IPV6) {
+		return ipv6_addr_is_multicast(&ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr);
 	}
 
 	return false;
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-13  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-13  3:12 [PATCH net-next 00/15] Netfilter updates for net-next Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 01/15] netfilter: flowtable: do not hw offload flows in teardown state Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:17   ` netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-11-13  3:24     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 02/15] netfilter: flowtable: fix pmtu discovery in nf_flow_tunnel_ip6ip6_push() Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 03/15] netfilter: flowtable: retrieve stats on flow deletion Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 04/15] net: ethernet: mtk_ppe: update " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 05/15] net: airoha: " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 06/15] netfilter: xt_time: fix monthday computation for dates past 2039 Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 08/15] netfilter: lwtunnel: expose read-only sysctl nf_hooks_lwtunnel for non init-netns Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 09/15] netfilter: flowtable: purge entries immediately when destroying the flowtable Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 10/15] selftests: netfilter: nf_queue: drop the no-op loop initializer Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 11/15] netfilter: flowtable: do not scrub as crossing netns Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 12/15] netfilter: flowtable: tunnel device poisons h_source of fast-path frames Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 13/15] netfilter: flowtable: do not clear the offload bit twice Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 14/15] netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: make skb writable before writing NFQA_L2HDR Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-13  3:12 ` [PATCH net-next 15/15] selftests: netfilter: add UDP flowtable offload test Pablo Neira Ayuso

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