linux/net/bridge
Florian Westphal 7c3f285996 netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack
[ Upstream commit 62e7151ae3 ]

conntrack nf_confirm logic cannot handle cloned skbs referencing
the same nf_conn entry, which will happen for multicast (broadcast)
frames on bridges.

 Example:
    macvlan0
       |
      br0
     /  \
  ethX    ethY

 ethX (or Y) receives a L2 multicast or broadcast packet containing
 an IP packet, flow is not yet in conntrack table.

 1. skb passes through bridge and fake-ip (br_netfilter)Prerouting.
    -> skb->_nfct now references a unconfirmed entry
 2. skb is broad/mcast packet. bridge now passes clones out on each bridge
    interface.
 3. skb gets passed up the stack.
 4. In macvlan case, macvlan driver retains clone(s) of the mcast skb
    and schedules a work queue to send them out on the lower devices.

    The clone skb->_nfct is not a copy, it is the same entry as the
    original skb.  The macvlan rx handler then returns RX_HANDLER_PASS.
 5. Normal conntrack hooks (in NF_INET_LOCAL_IN) confirm the orig skb.

The Macvlan broadcast worker and normal confirm path will race.

This race will not happen if step 2 already confirmed a clone. In that
case later steps perform skb_clone() with skb->_nfct already confirmed (in
hash table).  This works fine.

But such confirmation won't happen when eb/ip/nftables rules dropped the
packets before they reached the nf_confirm step in postrouting.

Pablo points out that nf_conntrack_bridge doesn't allow use of stateful
nat, so we can safely discard the nf_conn entry and let inet call
conntrack again.

This doesn't work for bridge netfilter: skb could have a nat
transformation. Also bridge nf prevents re-invocation of inet prerouting
via 'sabotage_in' hook.

Work around this problem by explicit confirmation of the entry at LOCAL_IN
time, before upper layer has a chance to clone the unconfirmed entry.

The downside is that this disables NAT and conntrack helpers.

Alternative fix would be to add locking to all code parts that deal with
unconfirmed packets, but even if that could be done in a sane way this
opens up other problems, for example:

-m physdev --physdev-out eth0 -j SNAT --snat-to 1.2.3.4
-m physdev --physdev-out eth1 -j SNAT --snat-to 1.2.3.5

For multicast case, only one of such conflicting mappings will be
created, conntrack only handles 1:1 NAT mappings.

Users should set create a setup that explicitly marks such traffic
NOTRACK (conntrack bypass) to avoid this, but we cannot auto-bypass
them, ruleset might have accept rules for untracked traffic already,
so user-visible behaviour would change.

Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217777
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2024-03-06 14:38:46 +00:00
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netfilter netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack 2024-03-06 14:38:46 +00:00
br.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-08-13 06:41:22 -07:00
br_arp_nd_proxy.c net: bridge: when suppression is enabled exclude RARP packets 2021-03-22 13:30:24 -07:00
br_cfm.c bridge: cfm: remove redundant return 2021-06-22 10:35:15 -07:00
br_cfm_netlink.c bridge: cfm: fix enum typo in br_cc_ccm_tx_parse 2024-02-23 08:54:45 +01:00
br_device.c net: bridge: move bridge ioctls out of .ndo_do_ioctl 2021-07-27 20:11:45 +01:00
br_fdb.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-08-13 06:41:22 -07:00
br_forward.c net: bridge: use DEV_STATS_INC() 2023-10-06 13:18:07 +02:00
br_if.c net: bridge: keep ports without IFF_UNICAST_FLT in BR_PROMISC mode 2023-07-23 13:47:29 +02:00
br_input.c net: bridge: use DEV_STATS_INC() 2023-10-06 13:18:07 +02:00
br_ioctl.c net: bridge: fix ioctl old_deviceless bridge argument 2021-12-29 12:28:46 +01:00
br_mdb.c net: bridge: vlan: account for router port lists when notifying 2021-08-17 10:37:29 +01:00
br_mrp.c net: bridge: mrp: Update the Test frames for MRA 2021-06-28 15:46:10 -07:00
br_mrp_netlink.c bridge: mrp: Use hlist_head instead of list_head for mrp 2020-11-09 16:42:12 -08:00
br_mrp_switchdev.c bridge: mrp: Extend br_mrp_switchdev to detect better the errors 2021-02-16 14:47:46 -08:00
br_multicast.c bridge: mcast: fix disabled snooping after long uptime 2024-02-23 08:54:54 +01:00
br_multicast_eht.c net: bridge: multicast: use multicast contexts instead of bridge or port 2021-07-20 05:41:19 -07:00
br_netfilter_hooks.c netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack 2024-03-06 14:38:46 +00:00
br_netfilter_ipv6.c netfilter: br_netfilter: Drop dst references before setting. 2022-09-15 11:30:04 +02:00
br_netlink.c net: bridge: mcast: add and enforce startup query interval minimum 2022-01-05 12:42:37 +01:00
br_netlink_tunnel.c net: bridge: notify on vlan tunnel changes done via the old api 2020-07-12 15:18:24 -07:00
br_nf_core.c net: add bool confirm_neigh parameter for dst_ops.update_pmtu 2019-12-24 22:28:54 -08:00
br_private.h bridge: mcast: fix disabled snooping after long uptime 2024-02-23 08:54:54 +01:00
br_private_cfm.h bridge: cfm: Kernel space implementation of CFM. CCM frame RX added. 2020-10-29 18:39:43 -07:00
br_private_mcast_eht.h net: bridge: multicast: use multicast contexts instead of bridge or port 2021-07-20 05:41:19 -07:00
br_private_mrp.h net: bridge: mrp: Update the Test frames for MRA 2021-06-28 15:46:10 -07:00
br_private_stp.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
br_private_tunnel.h bridge: always declare tunnel functions 2023-05-24 17:36:52 +01:00
br_stp.c net: bridge: constify variables in the replay helpers 2021-06-28 14:09:03 -07:00
br_stp_bpdu.c net: bridge: add STP xstats 2019-12-14 20:02:36 -08:00
br_stp_if.c bridge: Add extack warning when enabling STP in netns. 2023-07-27 08:46:59 +02:00
br_stp_timer.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
br_switchdev.c net: make switchdev_bridge_port_{,unoffload} loosely coupled with the bridge 2021-08-04 12:35:07 +01:00
br_sysfs_br.c net: bridge: mcast: add and enforce startup query interval minimum 2022-01-05 12:42:37 +01:00
br_sysfs_if.c net: bridge: mcast: br_multicast_set_port_router takes multicast context as argument 2021-08-20 15:00:35 +01:00
br_vlan.c bridge: switchdev: Fix memory leaks when changing VLAN protocol 2022-11-26 09:24:40 +01:00
br_vlan_options.c net: bridge: mcast: add and enforce startup query interval minimum 2022-01-05 12:42:37 +01:00
br_vlan_tunnel.c net: bridge: change return type of br_handle_ingress_vlan_tunnel 2021-08-24 16:51:09 -07:00
Kconfig bridge: cfm: Add BRIDGE_CFM to Kconfig. 2020-10-29 18:39:43 -07:00
Makefile net: bridge: multicast: add EHT host handling functions 2021-01-22 19:39:56 -08:00