From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: boz baba <bababoz943@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: rp not reset on goto next_match retry after expired/inactive last-field element
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 01:52:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ah4bJmm6z6ytowqD@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAB7JCLAzOAZ0CA5CMSkmzwCLY2+DgHSEZe15omAW2-WBTPhbQ@mail.gmail.com>
boz baba <bababoz943@gmail.com> wrote:
> While auditing the pipapo set lookup in v6.1.133 (the bug is also present
> on current mainline as of this writing) I noticed a logic error in the
Why are you auditing ancient kernel releases?
> Affected file / function
> ------------------------
>
> net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo_avx2.c :: nft_pipapo_avx2_lookup()
>
> Relevant excerpt (line numbers from v6.1.133):
>
> 1137 : const u8 *rp = (const u8 *)key;
> ...
> 1175 : nft_pipapo_avx2_prepare();
> 1176 :
> 1177 : next_match:
> 1178 : nft_pipapo_for_each_field(f, i, m) {
> 1179 : bool last = i == m->field_count - 1, first = !i;
> ...
> 1188 : NFT_SET_PIPAPO_AVX2_LOOKUP(8, 1); /* consumes rp */
> ...
> 1223 : if (ret < 0)
> 1224 : goto out;
> 1225 :
> 1226 : if (last) {
> 1227 : *ext = &f->mt[ret].e->ext;
> 1228 : if (unlikely(nft_set_elem_expired(*ext) ||
> 1229 : !nft_set_elem_active(*ext, genmask))) {
> 1230 : ret = 0;
> 1231 : goto next_match; /* <-- restarts loop */
> 1232 : }
> 1233 : goto out;
> 1234 : }
This looks very different in mainline. AFAICS this bug was fixed?
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2026-06-01 23:05 [BUG] netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: rp not reset on goto next_match retry after expired/inactive last-field element boz baba
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