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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Julius Rüberg" <julius.rueberg@student.kit.edu>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nftables set/map operations failing in user namespace with Linux 7.1.6
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:53:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ankvG2B0B35KbGen@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <582d218b638be68342dd80893c41746b35c1be76.camel@student.kit.edu>

Julius Rüberg <julius.rueberg@student.kit.edu> wrote:
> I'm reaching out because I'm encountering an issue with nftables using set/map
> operations (e.g., ip6 daddr set ip6 daddr map @forwardmap) inside user namespaces,
> introduced somewhere between Linux 7.0.12 and 7.1.3.
> I don't encounter the issue on the LTS Kernel (6.18.43).
> 
> If this is now intentionally restricted,

Yes:

commit 968cc2c96390f06e56ed6a43f935bfebdefed28f
Author: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date:   Sat May 16 23:23:21 2026 +0800

    netfilter: disable payload mangling in userns

We should be able to lift that restriction in the coming weeks,
after stricter offset/length validation is in place.

      reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-10  1:17 nftables set/map operations failing in user namespace with Linux 7.1.6 Julius Rüberg
2026-08-10  1:53 ` Florian Westphal [this message]

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