3.2.45-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 124dff01afbdbff251f0385beca84ba1b9adda68 ] Commit 130549fe ("netfilter: reset nf_trace in nf_reset") added code to reset nf_trace in nf_reset(). This is wrong and unnecessary. nf_reset() is used in the following cases: - when passing packets up the the socket layer, at which point we want to release all netfilter references that might keep modules pinned while the packet is queued. nf_trace doesn't matter anymore at this point. - when encapsulating or decapsulating IPsec packets. We want to continue tracing these packets after IPsec processing. - when passing packets through virtual network devices. Only devices on that encapsulate in IPv4/v6 matter since otherwise nf_trace is not used anymore. Its not entirely clear whether those packets should be traced after that, however we've always done that. - when passing packets through virtual network devices that make the packet cross network namespace boundaries. This is the only cases where we clearly want to reset nf_trace and is also what the original patch intended to fix. Add a new function nf_reset_trace() and use it in dev_forward_skb() to fix this properly. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/skbuff.h | 7 +++++++ net/core/dev.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -2367,6 +2367,13 @@ static inline void nf_reset(struct sk_bu #endif } +static inline void nf_reset_trace(struct sk_buff *skb) +{ +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_TRACE) + skb->nf_trace = 0; +#endif +} + /* Note: This doesn't put any conntrack and bridge info in dst. */ static inline void __nf_copy(struct sk_buff *dst, const struct sk_buff *src) { --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1619,6 +1619,7 @@ int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *d skb->mark = 0; secpath_reset(skb); nf_reset(skb); + nf_reset_trace(skb); return netif_rx(skb); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_forward_skb); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html