Re: conntrack doesn't always work when a bridge is used

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On Jan 11, 2008 2:25 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > Damien Thébault wrote:
> >> On the router, I'm using this script :
> >>
> >> ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
> >> brctl addbr br0
> >> brctl addif br0 eth0
> >> ifconfig br0 192.168.1.70 up
> >> ifconfig br0:0 192.168.2.70 up
> >> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 192.168.2.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
> >> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.2.250 -j DNAT
> >> --to-destination 192.168.2.50
>
> >
> > Thanks. Its the DNAT rule thats causing this, the bridge netfilter code
> > calls dst_output directly for bridged dnated frames, causing these
> > hook invocations:
> >
> >                PREROUTING
> > dst_output()    POSTROUTING
> >                FORWARD
> >                POSTROUTING
> >
> >
> > which is obviously broken. I'll see if I can come up with a fix for this.
>
> It appears this has always been broken. Could you test this patch please?
>
> The bridge code only calls dst_output to get a new destination MAC
> address for the DNATed packet when the new destination is reachable
> on the same bridge, so this patch simply hands the packet to the
> neighbour output function without going through the IP stack.
>
>
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
> index c1757c7..362fe89 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
> @@ -285,12 +285,17 @@ static int br_nf_pre_routing_finish_bridge(struct sk_buff *skb)
>         skb->nf_bridge->mask ^= BRNF_NF_BRIDGE_PREROUTING;
>
>         skb->dev = bridge_parent(skb->dev);
> -       if (!skb->dev)
> -               kfree_skb(skb);
> -       else {
> +       if (skb->dev) {
> +               struct dst_entry *dst = skb->dst;
> +
>                 nf_bridge_pull_encap_header(skb);
> -               skb->dst->output(skb);
> +
> +               if (dst->hh)
> +                       return neigh_hh_output(dst->hh, skb);
> +               else if (dst->neighbour)
> +                       return dst->neighbour->output(skb);
>         }
> +       kfree_skb(skb);
>         return 0;
>  }
>
>
>

I confirm that this patch solves the problem with this setup, thanks!

Does this mean that without this patch, DNAT doesn't work (correctly)
on a bridge?

-- 
Damien Thebault
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