netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: validate element belonging to interval

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The existing partial overlap detection does not check if the elements
belong to the interval, eg.

  add element inet x y { 1.1.1.1-2.2.2.2, 4.4.4.4-5.5.5.5 }
  add element inet x y { 1.1.1.1-5.5.5.5 } => this should fail: ENOENT

Similar situation occurs with deletions:

  add element inet x y { 1.1.1.1-2.2.2.2, 4.4.4.4-5.5.5.5}
  delete element inet x y { 1.1.1.1-5.5.5.5 } => this should fail: ENOENT

This currently works via mitigation by nft in userspace, which is
performing the overlap detection before sending the elements to the
kernel. This requires a previous netlink dump of the set content which
slows down incremental updates on interval sets, because a netlink set
content dump is needed.

This patch extends the existing overlap detection to track the most
recent start element that already exists. The pointer to the existing
start element is stored as a cookie (no pointer dereference is ever
possible). If the end element is added and it already exists, then
check that the existing end element is adjacent to the already existing
start element. Similar logic applies to element deactivation.

This patch also annotates the timestamp to identify if start cookie
comes from an older batch, in such case reset it. Otherwise, a failing
create element command leaves the start cookie in place, resulting in
bogus error reporting.

There is still a few more corner cases of overlap detection related to
the open interval that are addressed in follow up patches.

This is address an early design mistake where an interval is expressed
as two elements, using the NFT_SET_ELEM_INTERVAL_END flag, instead of
the more recent NFTA_SET_ELEM_KEY_END attribute that pipapo already
uses.

Fixes: 7c84d41416 ("netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Detect partial overlaps on insertion")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Pablo Neira Ayuso 2026-02-06 13:33:45 +01:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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