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<updated>2021-12-23T00:07:35Z</updated>
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<title>netfilter: nf_tables: make counter support built-in</title>
<updated>2021-12-23T00:07:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
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<published>2021-12-17T19:37:34Z</published>
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Make counter support built-in to allow for direct call in case of
CONFIG_RETPOLINE.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2021-10-22T10:41:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2021-10-22T10:41:16Z</published>
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Lots of simnple overlapping additions.

With a build fix from Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>netfilter: Introduce egress hook</title>
<updated>2021-10-14T21:06:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Wunner</name>
<email>lukas@wunner.de</email>
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<published>2021-10-08T20:06:03Z</published>
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Support classifying packets with netfilter on egress to satisfy user
requirements such as:
* outbound security policies for containers (Laura)
* filtering and mangling intra-node Direct Server Return (DSR) traffic
  on a load balancer (Laura)
* filtering locally generated traffic coming in through AF_PACKET,
  such as local ARP traffic generated for clustering purposes or DHCP
  (Laura; the AF_PACKET plumbing is contained in a follow-up commit)
* L2 filtering from ingress and egress for AVB (Audio Video Bridging)
  and gPTP with nftables (Pablo)
* in the future: in-kernel NAT64/NAT46 (Pablo)

The egress hook introduced herein complements the ingress hook added by
commit e687ad60af09 ("netfilter: add netfilter ingress hook after
handle_ing() under unique static key").  A patch for nftables to hook up
egress rules from user space has been submitted separately, so users may
immediately take advantage of the feature.

Alternatively or in addition to netfilter, packets can be classified
with traffic control (tc).  On ingress, packets are classified first by
tc, then by netfilter.  On egress, the order is reversed for symmetry.
Conceptually, tc and netfilter can be thought of as layers, with
netfilter layered above tc.

Traffic control is capable of redirecting packets to another interface
(man 8 tc-mirred).  E.g., an ingress packet may be redirected from the
host namespace to a container via a veth connection:
tc ingress (host) -&gt; tc egress (veth host) -&gt; tc ingress (veth container)

In this case, netfilter egress classifying is not performed when leaving
the host namespace!  That's because the packet is still on the tc layer.
If tc redirects the packet to a physical interface in the host namespace
such that it leaves the system, the packet is never subjected to
netfilter egress classifying.  That is only logical since it hasn't
passed through netfilter ingress classifying either.

Packets can alternatively be redirected at the netfilter layer using
nft fwd.  Such a packet *is* subjected to netfilter egress classifying
since it has reached the netfilter layer.

Internally, the skb-&gt;nf_skip_egress flag controls whether netfilter is
invoked on egress by __dev_queue_xmit().  Because __dev_queue_xmit() may
be called recursively by tunnel drivers such as vxlan, the flag is
reverted to false after sch_handle_egress().  This ensures that
netfilter is applied both on the overlay and underlying network.

Interaction between tc and netfilter is possible by setting and querying
skb-&gt;mark.

If netfilter egress classifying is not enabled on any interface, it is
patched out of the data path by way of a static_key and doesn't make a
performance difference that is discernible from noise:

Before:             1537 1538 1538 1537 1538 1537 Mb/sec
After:              1536 1534 1539 1539 1539 1540 Mb/sec
Before + tc accept: 1418 1418 1418 1419 1419 1418 Mb/sec
After  + tc accept: 1419 1424 1418 1419 1422 1420 Mb/sec
Before + tc drop:   1620 1619 1619 1619 1620 1620 Mb/sec
After  + tc drop:   1616 1624 1625 1624 1622 1619 Mb/sec

When netfilter egress classifying is enabled on at least one interface,
a minimal performance penalty is incurred for every egress packet, even
if the interface it's transmitted over doesn't have any netfilter egress
rules configured.  That is caused by checking dev-&gt;nf_hooks_egress
against NULL.

Measurements were performed on a Core i7-3615QM.  Commands to reproduce:
ip link add dev foo type dummy
ip link set dev foo up
modprobe pktgen
echo "add_device foo" &gt; /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_3
samples/pktgen/pktgen_bench_xmit_mode_queue_xmit.sh -i foo -n 400000000 -m "11:11:11:11:11:11" -d 1.1.1.1

Accept all traffic with tc:
tc qdisc add dev foo clsact
tc filter add dev foo egress bpf da bytecode '1,6 0 0 0,'

Drop all traffic with tc:
tc qdisc add dev foo clsact
tc filter add dev foo egress bpf da bytecode '1,6 0 0 2,'

Apply this patch when measuring packet drops to avoid errors in dmesg:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/a73dda33-57f4-95d8-ea51-ed483abd6a7a@iogearbox.net/

Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Cc: Laura García Liébana &lt;nevola@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<title>netfilter: Kconfig: use 'default y' instead of 'm' for bool config option</title>
<updated>2021-10-07T17:37:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-05T20:54:54Z</published>
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This option, NF_CONNTRACK_SECMARK, is a bool, so it can never be 'm'.

Fixes: 33b8e77605620 ("[NETFILTER]: Add CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED option")
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<title>netfilter: nfnetlink_hook: add depends-on nftables</title>
<updated>2021-06-09T19:29:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-08T20:53:22Z</published>
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nfnetlink_hook.c: In function 'nfnl_hook_put_nft_chain_info':
nfnetlink_hook.c:76:7: error: implicit declaration of 'nft_is_active'

This macro is only defined when NF_TABLES is enabled.
While its possible to also add an ifdef-guard, the infrastructure
is currently not useful without nf_tables.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 252956528caa ("netfilter: add new hook nfnl subsystem")
Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<title>netfilter: add new hook nfnl subsystem</title>
<updated>2021-06-07T10:41:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-04T10:27:07Z</published>
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This nfnl subsystem allows to dump the list of all active netfiler hooks,
e.g. defrag, conntrack, nf/ip/arp/ip6tables and so on.

This helps to see what kind of features are currently enabled in
the network stack.

Sample output from nft tool using this infra:

 $ nft list hook ip input
 family ip hook input {
   +0000000010 nft_do_chain_inet [nf_tables] # nft table firewalld INPUT
   +0000000100 nf_nat_ipv4_local_in [nf_nat]
   +2147483647 ipv4_confirm [nf_conntrack]
 }

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<title>netfilter: Remove leading spaces in Kconfig</title>
<updated>2021-05-28T23:04:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Juerg Haefliger</name>
<email>juerg.haefliger@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-17T09:58:50Z</published>
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Remove leading spaces before tabs in Kconfig file(s) by running the
following command:

  $ find net/netfilter -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -r -i 's/^[ ]+\t/\t/'

Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger &lt;juergh@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: allow to turn off xtables compat layer</title>
<updated>2021-04-26T16:16:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-26T10:14:40Z</published>
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The compat layer needs to parse untrusted input (the ruleset)
to translate it to a 64bit compatible format.

We had a number of bugs in this department in the past, so allow users
to turn this feature off.

Add CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES_COMPAT kconfig knob and make it default to y
to keep existing behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<title>netfilter: nf_log_common: merge with nf_log_syslog</title>
<updated>2021-03-31T20:34:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-25T17:25:10Z</published>
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Remove nf_log_common.  Now that all per-af modules have been merged
there is no longer a need to provide a helper module.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_log_netdev: merge with nf_log_syslog</title>
<updated>2021-03-30T22:37:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-25T17:25:08Z</published>
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Provide netdev family support from the nf_log_syslog module.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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