This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: conntrack: don't increment invalid counter on NF_REPEAT
to the 5.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-conntrack-don-t-increment-invalid-counter-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ed9206120b4f51d8c8475376255c08437fd57d94
Author: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jan 13 21:37:58 2022 +0100
netfilter: conntrack: don't increment invalid counter on NF_REPEAT
[ Upstream commit 830af2eba40327abec64325a5b08b1e85c37a2e0 ]
The packet isn't invalid, REPEAT means we're trying again after cleaning
out a stale connection, e.g. via tcp tracker.
This caused increases of invalid stat counter in a test case involving
frequent connection reuse, even though no packet is actually invalid.
Fixes: 56a62e2218f5 ("netfilter: conntrack: fix NF_REPEAT handling")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 4712a90a1820c..7f79974607643 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -1922,15 +1922,17 @@ nf_conntrack_in(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nf_hook_state *state)
pr_debug("nf_conntrack_in: Can't track with proto module\n");
nf_conntrack_put(&ct->ct_general);
skb->_nfct = 0;
- NF_CT_STAT_INC_ATOMIC(state->net, invalid);
- if (ret == -NF_DROP)
- NF_CT_STAT_INC_ATOMIC(state->net, drop);
/* Special case: TCP tracker reports an attempt to reopen a
* closed/aborted connection. We have to go back and create a
* fresh conntrack.
*/
if (ret == -NF_REPEAT)
goto repeat;
+
+ NF_CT_STAT_INC_ATOMIC(state->net, invalid);
+ if (ret == -NF_DROP)
+ NF_CT_STAT_INC_ATOMIC(state->net, drop);
+
ret = -ret;
goto out;
}
