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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	coreteam@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: 6.1: possible bug with netfilter conntrack?
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:56:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230113125629.GD19463@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y8E8uX9gLBBywmf5@shell.armlinux.org.uk>

Russell King (Oracle) <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
[..]
> Digging through the tcpdump and logs, it seems what is going on is:
> 
> public interface			dmz interface
> origin -> mailserver SYN		origin -> mailserver SYN
> mailserver -> origin SYNACK		mailserver -> origin SYNACK
> origin -> mailserver ACK
> mailserver -> origin RST
> mailserver -> origin SYNACK		mailserver -> origin SYNACK
> mailserver -> origin SYNACK		mailserver -> origin SYNACK
> mailserver -> origin SYNACK		mailserver -> origin SYNACK
> mailserver -> origin SYNACK		mailserver -> origin SYNACK
> ...
> 
> Here is an example from the public interface:
> 
> 09:52:36.599398 IP 103.14.225.112.63461 > 78.32.30.218.587: Flags [SEW], seq 3387227814, win 8192, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
> 09:52:36.599893 IP 78.32.30.218.587 > 103.14.225.112.63461: Flags [S.], seq 816385329, ack 3387227815, win 64240, options [mss 1452,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7], length 0
> 09:52:36.820464 IP 103.14.225.112.63461 > 78.32.30.218.587: Flags [.], ack 1, win 260, length 0
> 09:52:36.820549 IP 78.32.30.218.587 > 103.14.225.112.63461: Flags [R], seq 816385330, win 0, length 0
> 09:52:37.637548 IP 78.32.30.218.587 > 103.14.225.112.63461: Flags [S.], seq 816385329, ack 3387227815, win 64240, options [mss 1452,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7], length 0
> 
> and the corresponding trace on the mailserver:
> 09:52:36.599729 IP 103.14.225.112.63461 > 78.32.30.218.587: Flags [SEW], seq 3387227814, win 8192, options [mss 1452,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
> 09:52:36.599772 IP 78.32.30.218.587 > 103.14.225.112.63461: Flags [S.], seq 816385329, ack 3387227815, win 64240, options [mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7], length 0
> 09:52:37.637421 IP 78.32.30.218.587 > 103.14.225.112.63461: Flags [S.], seq 816385329, ack 3387227815, win 64240, options [mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7], length 0
> 
> So, my first observation is that conntrack is reacting to the ACK
> packet on the public interface, and marking the connection established,
> but a firewall rule is rejecting the connection when that ACK packet is
> received by sending a TCP reset. It looks like conntrack does not see 
> this packet,

Right, this is silly.  I'll see about this; the rst packet
bypasses conntrack because nf_send_reset attaches the exising
entry of the packet its replying to -- tcp conntrack gets skipped for
the generated RST.

But this is also the case in 5.16, so no idea why this is surfacing now.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-13 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-12 23:03 6.1: possible bug with netfilter conntrack? Russell King (Oracle)
2023-01-12 23:38 ` Florian Westphal
2023-01-13  0:16   ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-01-12 23:40 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-01-12 23:45   ` Florian Westphal
2023-01-13 11:12     ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-01-13 12:56       ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2023-01-13 13:36         ` Russell King (Oracle)

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