linux.git/net/netfilter/nft_rt.c, branch v7.1

netfilter: nf_tables: add netlink policy based cap on registers

2026-04-08T05:51:31+00:00

Should have no effect in practice; all of these use the
nft_parse_register_load/store apis which is mandatory anyway due
to the need to further validate the register load/store, e.g.
that the size argument doesn't result in out-of-bounds load/store.

OTOH this is a simple method to reject obviously wrong input
at earlier stage.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

netfilter: nf_tables: remove register tracking infrastructure

2026-02-26T03:36:26+00:00

This facility was disabled in commit
9e539c5b6d9c ("netfilter: nf_tables: disable expression reduction infra"),
because not all nft_exprs guarantee they will update the destination
register: some may set NFT_BREAK instead to cancel evaluation of the
rule.

This has been dead code ever since.
There are no plans to salvage this at this time, so remove this.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224205048.4718-10-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netfilter: nf_tables: drop unused 3rd argument from validate callback ops

2024-09-03T08:47:17+00:00

Since commit a654de8fdc18 ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix chain dependency validation")
the validate() callback no longer needs the return pointer argument.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

inet: introduce dst_rtable() helper

2024-05-01T01:32:38+00:00

I added dst_rt6_info() in commit
e8dfd42c17fa ("ipv6: introduce dst_rt6_info() helper")

This patch does a similar change for IPv4.

Instead of (struct rtable *)dst casts, we can use :

 #define dst_rtable(_ptr) \
             container_of_const(_ptr, struct rtable, dst)

Patch is smaller than IPv6 one, because IPv4 has skb_rtable() helper.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429133009.1227754-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: introduce dst_rt6_info() helper

2024-04-29T12:32:01+00:00

Instead of (struct rt6_info *)dst casts, we can use :

 #define dst_rt6_info(_ptr) \
         container_of_const(_ptr, struct rt6_info, dst)

Some places needed missing const qualifiers :

ip6_confirm_neigh(), ipv6_anycast_destination(),
ipv6_unicast_destination(), has_gateway()

v2: added missing parts (David Ahern)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netfilter: nf_tables: validate NFPROTO_* family

2024-01-24T19:02:40+00:00

Several expressions explicitly refer to NF_INET_* hook definitions
from expr->ops->validate, however, family is not validated.

Bail out with EOPNOTSUPP in case they are used from unsupported
families.

Fixes: 0ca743a55991 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add compatibility layer for x_tables")
Fixes: a3c90f7a2323 ("netfilter: nf_tables: flow offload expression")
Fixes: 2fa841938c64 ("netfilter: nf_tables: introduce routing expression")
Fixes: 554ced0a6e29 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add support for native socket matching")
Fixes: ad49d86e07a4 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Add synproxy support")
Fixes: 4ed8eb6570a4 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Add native tproxy support")
Fixes: 6c47260250fc ("netfilter: nf_tables: add xfrm expression")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nf_tables: limit allowed range via nla_policy

2023-06-26T06:05:57+00:00

These NLA_U32 types get stored in u8 fields, reject invalid values
instead of silently casting to u8.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nf_tables: Extend nft_expr_ops::dump callback parameters

2022-11-15T09:46:34+00:00

Add a 'reset' flag just like with nft_object_ops::dump. This will be
useful to reset "anonymous stateful objects", e.g. simple rule counters.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nf_tables: do not reduce read-only expressions

2022-03-19T23:29:46+00:00

Skip register tracking for expressions that perform read-only operations
on the registers. Define and use a cookie pointer NFT_REDUCE_READONLY to
avoid defining stubs for these expressions.

This patch re-enables register tracking which was disabled in ed5f85d42290
("netfilter: nf_tables: disable register tracking"). Follow up patches
add remaining register tracking for existing expressions.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nftables: add nft_parse_register_store() and use it

2021-01-27T22:16:02+00:00

This new function combines the netlink register attribute parser
and the store validation function.

This update requires to replace:

        enum nft_registers      dreg:8;

in many of the expression private areas otherwise compiler complains
with:

        error: cannot take address of bit-field ‘dreg’

when passing the register field as reference.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso