Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm: interface: Don't hide plain packets from netfilter

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Hi Phil,

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:07 PM Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With an IPsec tunnel without dedicated interface, netfilter sees locally
> generated packets twice as they exit the physical interface: Once as "the
> inner packet" with IPsec context attached and once as the encrypted
> (ESP) packet.
>
> With xfrm_interface, the inner packet did not traverse NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT
> hook anymore, making it impossible to match on both inner header values
> and associated IPsec data from that hook.
>

Why wouldn't locally generated traffic not traverse the
NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT hook via e.g. __ip_local_out() when xmitted on an xfrmi?
I would expect it to appear in netfilter, but without the IPsec
context, as it's not
there yet.

> Fix this by looping packets transmitted from xfrm_interface through
> NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT before passing them on to dst_output(), which makes
> behaviour consistent again from netfilter's point of view.

When an XFRM interface is used when forwarding, why would it be correct
for NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT to observe the inner packet?

What am I missing?

Thanks!
Eyal.



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