The existing check is not sufficient, as it only considers flowtables within the same table. In case of HW offload, we need check all flowtables that exist in the same net namespace. We can skip flowtables that are slated for removal (not active in next gen). Ideally this check would supersede the existing one, but this is probably too risky and might prevent existing configs from working. As is, you can do all of the following: table ip t { flowtable f { devices = { lo } } } table ip6 t { flowtable f { devices = { lo } } } table inet t { flowtable f { devices = { lo } } } ... but IMO this should not be possible in the first place. Disable this for HW offload. This is related to XDP flowtable work, the idea is to keep a small hashtable that has a 'struct net_device := struct nf_flowtable' map. This mapping must be unique. The idea is to add a "XDP OFFLOAD" flag to nftables api and then have this function run for 'xdp offload' case too. This is useful, because it would permit the "xdp offload" hashtable to tolerate duplicate keys -- they would only occur during transactional updates, e.g. a flush of the current table combined with atomic reload. Without this change, the nf_flowtable core cannot tell when flowtable is a real duplicate, or just a temporary artefact of the two-phase-commit protocol (i.e., the clashing entry is queued for removal). Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index e779e275d694..7437b997ca7e 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -8189,6 +8189,37 @@ static void nft_unregister_flowtable_net_hooks(struct net *net, __nft_unregister_flowtable_net_hooks(net, hook_list, false); } +static bool nft_flowtable_offload_clash(struct net *net, + const struct nft_hook *hook, + struct nft_flowtable *flowtable) +{ + const struct nftables_pernet *nft_net; + struct nft_flowtable *existing_ft; + const struct nft_table *table; + + /* No offload requested, no need to validate */ + if (!nf_flowtable_hw_offload(flowtable->ft)) + return false; + + nft_net = nft_pernet(net); + + list_for_each_entry(table, &nft_net->tables, list) { + list_for_each_entry(existing_ft, &table->flowtables, list) { + const struct nft_hook *hook2; + + if (!nft_is_active_next(net, existing_ft)) + continue; + + list_for_each_entry(hook2, &existing_ft->hook_list, list) { + if (hook->ops.dev == hook2->ops.dev) + return true; + } + } + } + + return false; +} + static int nft_register_flowtable_net_hooks(struct net *net, struct nft_table *table, struct list_head *hook_list, @@ -8199,6 +8230,11 @@ static int nft_register_flowtable_net_hooks(struct net *net, int err, i = 0; list_for_each_entry(hook, hook_list, list) { + if (nft_flowtable_offload_clash(net, hook, flowtable)) { + err = -EEXIST; + goto err_unregister_net_hooks; + } + list_for_each_entry(ft, &table->flowtables, list) { if (!nft_is_active_next(net, ft)) continue; -- 2.41.0