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 3/4] netfilter: always set route tuple out ifindex
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:07:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251210110754.22620-4-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251210110754.22620-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Always set nf_flow_route tuple out ifindex even if the indev is not one
of the flowtable configured devices since otherwise the outdev lookup in
nf_flow_offload_ip_hook() or nf_flow_offload_ipv6_hook() for
FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_NEIGH flowtable entries will fail.
The above issue occurs in the following configuration since IP6IP6
tunnel does not support flowtable acceleration yet:
$ip addr show
5: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:11:22:33:22:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netns ns1
inet6 2001:db8:1::2/64 scope global nodad
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::211:22ff:fe33:2255/64 scope link tentative proto kernel_ll
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
6: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:22:22:33:22:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netns ns3
inet6 2001:db8:2::1/64 scope global nodad
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::222:22ff:fe33:2255/64 scope link tentative proto kernel_ll
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
7: tun0@NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1452 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/tunnel6 2001:db8:2::1 peer 2001:db8:2::2 permaddr a85:e732:2c37::
inet6 2002:db8:1::1/64 scope global nodad
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::885:e7ff:fe32:2c37/64 scope link proto kernel_ll
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
$ip -6 route show
2001:db8:1::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
2001:db8:2::/64 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
2002:db8:1::/64 dev tun0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
default via 2002:db8:1::2 dev tun0 metric 1024 pref medium
$nft list ruleset
table inet filter {
flowtable ft {
hook ingress priority filter
devices = { eth0, eth1 }
}
chain forward {
type filter hook forward priority filter; policy accept;
meta l4proto { tcp, udp } flow add @ft
}
}
Fixes: b5964aac51e0 ("netfilter: flowtable: consolidate xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_path.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_path.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_path.c
index f0984cf69a09..eb24fe2715dc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_path.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_path.c
@@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ static void nft_dev_forward_path(const struct nft_pktinfo *pkt,
if (nft_dev_fill_forward_path(route, dst, ct, dir, ha, &stack) >= 0)
nft_dev_path_info(&stack, &info, ha, &ft->data);
+ if (info.outdev)
+ route->tuple[dir].out.ifindex = info.outdev->ifindex;
+
if (!info.indev || !nft_flowtable_find_dev(info.indev, ft))
return;
@@ -269,7 +272,6 @@ static void nft_dev_forward_path(const struct nft_pktinfo *pkt,
route->tuple[!dir].in.num_encaps = info.num_encaps;
route->tuple[!dir].in.ingress_vlans = info.ingress_vlans;
- route->tuple[dir].out.ifindex = info.outdev->ifindex;
if (info.xmit_type == FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_DIRECT) {
memcpy(route->tuple[dir].out.h_source, info.h_source, ETH_ALEN);
--
2.51.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-10 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-10 11:07 [PATCH net 0/4] netfilter: updates for net Florian Westphal
2025-12-10 11:07 ` [PATCH net 1/4] netfilter: nf_conncount: fix leaked ct in error paths Florian Westphal
2025-12-11 9:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2025-12-10 11:07 ` [PATCH net 2/4] ipvs: fix ipv4 null-ptr-deref in route error path Florian Westphal
2025-12-10 11:07 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2025-12-10 11:07 ` [PATCH net 4/4] selftests: netfilter: prefer xfail in case race wasn't triggered Florian Westphal
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