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From: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: Resolve conntrack L3-protocol flush regression
Date: Fri,  3 May 2019 17:40:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190503154007.32495-1-kristian.evensen@gmail.com> (raw)

Commit 59c08c69c278 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: Support L3 protocol-filter
on flush") introduced a user-space regression when flushing connection
track entries. Before this commit, the nfgen_family field was not used
by the kernel and all entries were removed. Since this commit,
nfgen_family is used to filter out entries that should not be removed.
One example a broken tool is conntrack. conntrack always sets
nfgen_family to AF_INET, so after 59c08c69c278 only IPv4 entries were
removed with the -F parameter.

Pablo Neira Ayuso suggested using nfgenmsg->version to resolve the
regression, and this commit implements his suggestion. nfgenmsg->version
is so far set to zero, so it is well-suited to be used as a flag for
selecting old or new flush behavior. If version is 0, nfgen_family is
ignored and all entries are used. If user-space sets the version to one
(or any other value than 0), then the new behavior is used. As version
only can have two valid values, I chose not to add a new
NFNETLINK_VERSION-constant.

Fixes: 59c08c69c278 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: Support L3 protocol-filter
on flush")

Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 8dcc064d518d..7db79c1b8084 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ static int ctnetlink_del_conntrack(struct net *net, struct sock *ctnl,
 	struct nf_conntrack_tuple tuple;
 	struct nf_conn *ct;
 	struct nfgenmsg *nfmsg = nlmsg_data(nlh);
-	u_int8_t u3 = nfmsg->nfgen_family;
+	u_int8_t u3 = nfmsg->version ? nfmsg->nfgen_family : AF_UNSPEC;
 	struct nf_conntrack_zone zone;
 	int err;
 
-- 
2.19.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-05-03 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-03 15:40 Kristian Evensen [this message]
2019-05-03 17:02 ` [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: Resolve conntrack L3-protocol flush regression Nicolas Dichtel
2019-05-03 17:05   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-05-04 10:57     ` Kristian Evensen
2019-05-05 22:32 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-05-06  8:49   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2019-05-06 13:16     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-05-20  8:35       ` Nicolas Dichtel
2019-05-24  9:22         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-05-28 13:57           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2019-05-28 22:59             ` Greg KH

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