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From: "William N." <netfilter@riseup.net>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Thread split] nftables rule optimization - dropping invalid in ingress?
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:37:50 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240420183750.332ffbad@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240420084802.6ff973cf@localhost>

After spending some time looking for more info and based on this:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c?h=v5.8#n700

I think I figured it out:

tcp flags & (fin|syn|rst|ack|urg) != {
		syn,
		syn|urg,
		syn|ack,
		rst,
		rst|ack,
		fin|ack,
		fin|ack|urg,
		ack,
		ack|urg
	} drop comment "TCP invalid"

This checks the listed values against the mask "fin|syn|rst|ack|urg".
The same values and mask are used in the conntrack code, i.e. it drops
invalid TCP packets.

According to my own tests, this works in the ingress hook, i.e. early
drop.

The only question that remains is performance measurement and
comparison, as mentioned.

Please let me know what you think.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-20 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-20  8:48 [Thread split] nftables rule optimization - dropping invalid in ingress? William N.
2024-04-20 18:37 ` William N. [this message]
2024-04-20 19:16   ` Kerin Millar
2024-04-21 17:47     ` William N.
2024-04-27 19:23       ` William N.
2024-04-21  3:45   ` Eric
2024-04-21  5:47     ` Slavko
2024-04-21 17:50     ` William N.

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