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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lorenzo@kernel.org, chzhengyang2023@lzu.edu.cn
Subject: [PATCH nf,v2 3/3] netfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct xmit
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:40:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260630094056.97038-3-pablo@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260630094056.97038-1-pablo@netfilter.org>

The combination of IPIP tunnel with direct xmit, eg. bridge device,
breaks because no dst_entry is provided to check the skb headroom and to
set the iph->frag_off field. This leads to invalid dst usage and can
trigger a crash in the tunnel transmit path.

Fix this by moving dst_cache and dst_cookie out of the runtime union so
that they can be shared by neighbour, xfrm, and direct tunnel flows.
For FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_DIRECT tuples carrying tunnel metadata, preserve
route state in these shared fields and release it through the common
dst release path.

Since dst_entry is now available to the three supported xmit modes and
dst_release() already deals with NULL dst, remove the xmit type check
in nft_flow_dst_release(). Moreover, skip the check if the dst entry
is NULL in nf_flow_dst_check() which is now the case for the direct
xmit case.

Based on patch from Rein Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>.

Fixes: d30301ba4b07 ("netfilter: flowtable: Add IPIP tx sw acceleration")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Zhengyang Chen <chzhengyang2023@lzu.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
v2: - reorder dst_cookie and dst_cache to fix a 4-byte hole in struct
    - remove unnecessary zeroing on dst_cookie and dst_cache, struct is already zeroed at init
    Both updates per Lorenzo Bianconi's comment.

 include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h |  5 +++--
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c    | 12 ++++++++----
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c      |  3 +--
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
index dc5c9b48e65a..ce414118962f 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
@@ -155,11 +155,12 @@ struct flow_offload_tuple {
 					tun_num:2,
 					in_vlan_ingress:2;
 	u16				mtu;
+	u32				dst_cookie;
+	struct dst_entry		*dst_cache;
+
 	union {
 		struct {
-			struct dst_entry *dst_cache;
 			u32		ifidx;
-			u32		dst_cookie;
 		};
 		struct {
 			u32		ifidx;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index d06ce0848b68..2a829b5e8240 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -127,12 +127,18 @@ static int flow_offload_fill_route(struct flow_offload *flow,
 
 	switch (route->tuple[dir].xmit_type) {
 	case FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_DIRECT:
+		if (flow_tuple->tun_num) {
+			flow_tuple->dst_cache = dst;
+			flow_tuple->dst_cookie =
+				flow_offload_dst_cookie(flow_tuple);
+		}
 		memcpy(flow_tuple->out.h_dest, route->tuple[dir].out.h_dest,
 		       ETH_ALEN);
 		memcpy(flow_tuple->out.h_source, route->tuple[dir].out.h_source,
 		       ETH_ALEN);
 		flow_tuple->out.ifidx = route->tuple[dir].out.ifindex;
-		dst_release(dst);
+		if (!flow_tuple->tun_num)
+			dst_release(dst);
 		break;
 	case FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_XFRM:
 	case FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_NEIGH:
@@ -152,9 +158,7 @@ static int flow_offload_fill_route(struct flow_offload *flow,
 static void nft_flow_dst_release(struct flow_offload *flow,
 				 enum flow_offload_tuple_dir dir)
 {
-	if (flow->tuplehash[dir].tuple.xmit_type == FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_NEIGH ||
-	    flow->tuplehash[dir].tuple.xmit_type == FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_XFRM)
-		dst_release(flow->tuplehash[dir].tuple.dst_cache);
+	dst_release(flow->tuplehash[dir].tuple.dst_cache);
 }
 
 void flow_offload_route_init(struct flow_offload *flow,
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
index 089f2bc19972..0b78decce8a9 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
@@ -299,8 +299,7 @@ static bool nf_flow_exceeds_mtu(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int mtu)
 
 static inline bool nf_flow_dst_check(struct flow_offload_tuple *tuple)
 {
-	if (tuple->xmit_type != FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_NEIGH &&
-	    tuple->xmit_type != FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_XFRM)
+	if (!tuple->dst_cache)
 		return true;
 
 	return dst_check(tuple->dst_cache, tuple->dst_cookie);
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-30  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-30  9:40 [PATCH nf,v2 1/3] netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-06-30  9:40 ` [PATCH nf,v2 2/3] netfilter: flowtable: IPIP tunnel hardware offload is not yet support Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-06-30 10:18   ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-06-30  9:40 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2026-06-30 10:19   ` [PATCH nf,v2 3/3] netfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct xmit Lorenzo Bianconi

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