linux/net/bridge
Florian Westphal 62e7151ae3 netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack
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>
2024-02-29 00:22:44 +01:00
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netfilter netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack 2024-02-29 00:22:44 +01:00
br_arp_nd_proxy.c bridge: Add per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression data path support 2023-04-21 08:25:50 +01:00
br_cfm_netlink.c bridge: cfm: fix enum typo in br_cc_ccm_tx_parse 2023-12-26 22:38:13 +00:00
br_cfm.c bridge: cfm: remove redundant return 2021-06-22 10:35:15 -07:00
br_device.c bridge: mdb: Add MDB bulk deletion support 2023-12-20 11:27:20 +00:00
br_fdb.c net: bridge: Track and limit dynamically learned FDB entries 2023-10-17 17:39:01 -07:00
br_forward.c net: bridge: use DEV_STATS_INC() 2023-09-19 13:35:15 +02:00
br_if.c net: bridge: keep ports without IFF_UNICAST_FLT in BR_PROMISC mode 2023-07-03 09:11:34 +01:00
br_input.c bridge: mcast: Rename MDB entry get function 2023-10-27 10:51:41 +01:00
br_ioctl.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-12-31 14:35:40 +00:00
br_mdb.c bridge: mdb: Add MDB bulk deletion support 2023-12-20 11:27:20 +00:00
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_mrp.c net: bridge: mrp: Update the Test frames for MRA 2021-06-28 15:46:10 -07:00
br_mst.c net: bridge: mst: Add helper to query a port's MST state 2022-03-17 16:49:58 -07:00
br_multicast_eht.c treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*() 2022-12-25 13:38:09 -08:00
br_multicast.c bridge: mcast: fix disabled snooping after long uptime 2024-01-30 18:06:56 -08:00
br_netfilter_hooks.c netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack 2024-02-29 00:22:44 +01:00
br_netfilter_ipv6.c netfilter: bridge: replace physindev with physinif in nf_bridge_info 2024-01-17 12:02:49 +01:00
br_netlink_tunnel.c net: bridge: Set strict_start_type at two policies 2023-02-06 08:48:25 +00:00
br_netlink.c net: bridge: Set strict_start_type for br_policy 2023-10-17 17:39:02 -07:00
br_nf_core.c net: dst: Switch to rcuref_t reference counting 2023-03-28 18:52:28 -07:00
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
br_private_tunnel.h bridge: always declare tunnel functions 2023-05-17 21:28:58 -07:00
br_private.h bridge: mcast: fix disabled snooping after long uptime 2024-01-30 18:06:56 -08:00
br_stp_bpdu.c net: bridge: add STP xstats 2019-12-14 20:02:36 -08:00
br_stp_if.c net: use eth_hw_addr_set() 2021-10-02 14:18:25 +01:00
br_stp_timer.c
br_stp.c net: bridge: mst: Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) mode 2022-03-17 16:49:57 -07:00
br_switchdev.c net: bridge: switchdev: Ensure deferred event delivery on unoffload 2024-02-16 09:36:37 +00:00
br_sysfs_br.c bridge: Fix flushing of dynamic FDB entries 2022-11-02 20:47:09 -07:00
br_sysfs_if.c bridge: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy 2022-08-22 17:57:30 -07:00
br_vlan_options.c bridge: vlan: Allow setting VLAN neighbor suppression state 2023-04-21 08:25:50 +01:00
br_vlan_tunnel.c bridge: Add backup nexthop ID support 2023-07-19 10:53:49 +01:00
br_vlan.c bridge: vlan: Allow setting VLAN neighbor suppression state 2023-04-21 08:25:50 +01:00
br.c net: bridge: fill in MODULE_DESCRIPTION() 2023-10-27 11:16:44 +01:00
Kconfig bridge: cfm: Add BRIDGE_CFM to Kconfig. 2020-10-29 18:39:43 -07:00
Makefile net: bridge: mst: Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) mode 2022-03-17 16:49:57 -07:00