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2026-08-14Merge tag 'nf-next-26-08-10' of ↵Jakub Kicinski
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== Netfilter updates for net This includes an enhancement to detect ct memleaks easier via DEBUG_NET and flowtable preparation patches for IPv4 over IPV6 and vice-versa. This also includes a fix for the nft_ct custom expectation support. 1) Add DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE to nf_ct_set() to spot ct memleaks. 2) Pass struct net_device_path_ctx to dev_fill_forward_path() to make it easier to pass more parameters to this function. From Lorenzo Bianconi. 3) Add ether_type field to net_device_path context structucture. 4) Rename tun.l3_proto field to tun.inner_proto. 5) Rename ctx.tun.proto to ctx.tun.inner_proto. 6) Store ether_type in flowtable context. 7) Move IPv4 and IPv6 xmit path to a helper function. 8) Move encapsulation header parser out of the flowtable lookup function. 9) Rework nft_ct custom expectation support to address a possible reallocation of ct extension area while expectation list also contains expectations. Move datapath to a ct helper to fix it. 10) Ensure timeout is always lowered for the non-closing RST case in the TCP connection tracking. 11) Bail out when inserting already dead expectation, this should not ever happen, hence report it via DEBUG_NET. 12) Comestic updates for improving the conntrack selftest dump and flush userspace program, from Qingshuang Fu. * tag 'nf-next-26-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next: selftests: netfilter: conntrack_dump_flush: remove unused variables and fix typo netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: bail out on insert dead expectations netfilter: conntrack: always lower timeout for non-closing RST packets netfilter: nft_ct: move custom expectation support to helper netfilter: flowtable: detach layer 2 encapsulation parser from lookup netfilter: flowtable: move ipv4 and ipv6 xmit path to function netfilter: flowtable: store ethertype in flowtable context netfilter: flowtable: rename ctx.tun.proto to ctx.tun.inner_proto netfilter: flowtable: rename tun.l3_proto to tun.inner_proto net: netfilter: add ether_type to net_device_path_ctx and use it net: pass net_device_path_ctx to dev_fill_forward_path() netfilter: add DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE to skb_set_nfct() ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260810194015.932627-1-pablo@netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-13Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.2-rc8). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/ngbe/ngbe_main.c 5f3a13e0bb5e ("net: ngbe: fix NULL pointer dereference in non-MSI-X interrupt enabling") d661abdc30c2 ("net: ngbe: correct misleading interrupt comment") drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c e16e960d55a4 ("ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev") 00a40d809207 ("ipvlan: Support per-netns netdev unregistration.") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-08-10ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds accessJulian Anastasov
While the outer IP header is already pulled into the skb head, we must be careful and revalidate the embedded headers after reading them from the skb frags to prevent out-of-bounds access. One such place reported by Sashiko is ip_vs_nat_icmp() where local process can change the ihl field and after skb_ensure_writable() we can see larger value which is a problem for the ip_send_check(cih) calls. Add check to drop the packet if the ihl field is changed. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260730183506.87473-1-ja%40ssi.bg Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-08-10ipvs: separate destination availability stateYizhou Zhao
IPVS configuration paths update destination availability while connection accounting updates destination overload state. The two independent states share dest->flags, so their read-modify-write updates can race and lose one another. Keep OVERLOAD in flags, where the preceding patch serializes its updates with dst_lock, and move AVAILABLE to cflags. This keeps configuration- controlled availability out of the scheduler hot cacheline until a scheduler needs to check it. It also prevents availability updates from clobbering overload state. The destination status bits are not exposed through the IPVS sockopt or netlink interfaces, so keep their definitions in the internal IPVS header. Readers can still observe stale destination state; this does not provide a cross-field snapshot. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang <yangyx22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> Reported-by: Ao Wang <wangao@seu.edu.cn> Reported-by: Xuewei Feng <fengxw06@126.com> Reported-by: Qi Li <qli01@tsinghua.edu.cn> Reported-by: Ke Xu <xuke@tsinghua.edu.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8913381c-1e02-35c7-0ec4-61de5a12fd35@ssi.bg/ Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2 Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-08-10ipvs: properly update the overload flag on dest editJulian Anastasov
The upper/lower connection thresholds for dest can be changed, so use ip_vs_dest_update_overload() to properly update the dest overload flag. The thresholds were not limited, fit them in the 0 .. INT_MAX range as already done in ipvsadm. As the thresholds are also read when connections are created and expired, use WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE to access them. As the lower threshold is optional, use (u - (u >> 2)) to calculate the 75% default value based on the upper threshold by preserving the integer rounding, as suggested by Yizhou Zhao. Trigger flag update when totalconns reaches one of the thresholds and use dst_lock to serialize the updating. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-08-10ipvs: add totalconns for destJulian Anastasov
Replace the inactconns dest counter with totalconns, now inactconns can be obtained from totalconns - activeconns. This reduces the atomic inc/dec ops for TCP/SCTP from 6 to 4 if the connection is established and then closed. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-08-10netfilter: add DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE to skb_set_nfct()Pablo Neira Ayuso
Trigger a warning if nf_ct_set() overlaps an existing ct object leading to refcount leak. Add this warning to skb_set_nfct() whose only user is nf_ct_set() instead. Update existing nf_ct_set() callers to use nf_reset_ct() first to clean up stale pointer to conntrack object which migh trigger false positive warnings. Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-08-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.2-rc7). No conflicts, or adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-07-31ipvs: return the csum validation for forward hookJulian Anastasov
Sashiko notes that playing games with the skb dst and rt flags instead of providing hooknum is not a good idea when validating the checksums. Also, skipping checksum validation for FORWARD packets risk silent data corruption, even if the only user is the FTP-CMD packets coming from the real server. Sashiko also noticed that by using common checksum helper in the previous commit we actually fixed old bug where the TCP/UDP checksum for IPv6 on CHECKSUM_COMPLETE was not validated correctly. Fixes: e876b75b9020 ("ipvs: fix the checksum validations") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260722211420.153933-1-pablo%40netfilter.org Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260727185024.67534-1-ja%40ssi.bg Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260728202520.59179-1-ja%40ssi.bg Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-07-31ipvs: avoid out-of-bounds write in ip_vs_nat_icmpJulian Anastasov
Sashiko warns that local attacker can modify the packet while it is processed by IPVS. Some places read the IP ihl field multiple times which can cause out-of-bounds access. One such place is ip_vs_nat_icmp where we can write after the validated area. Fix it by providing ciph argument just like it is done for IPv6 and use ciph->len as offset to the embedded transport header. Modify some IPv4 header checks by reading the ihl field only once. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260722101517.36313-1-ja%40ssi.bg Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-07-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.2-rc6). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: net/ipv4/route.c dbc3791e3b24 ("net: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails") 7804eaa057fe ("ipv4: snapshot dst.dev in ip_rt_send_redirect() and ip_rt_get_source()") drivers/net/tun.c 23dad2d088df ("tun: no longer rely on RTNL in tun_fill_info()") c3da92af07ea ("Revert "tun/tap: add ptr_ring consume helper with netdev queue wakeup"") drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c 3bd438a58e91 ("octeontx2-af: Block VFs from clobbering special CGX PKIND state") 5ba5611ef946 ("octeontx2-af: reserve 4 PKINDs for skip-size custom use") drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/peer.c 469d7e6077c1 ("wifi: ath12k: resolve PENDING ML peer ID from MLO_PEER_MAP HTT event") 378e659029d5 ("wifi: ath12k: introduce host_alloc_ml_id hardware parameter") c42b27336eef ("wifi: ath12k: fix survey indexing across bands") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-07-23ipvs: do not mangle ICMP replies for non-first fragmentsJulian Anastasov
Sashiko warns that ip_vs_nat_icmp() unconditionally mangles the payload for embedded non-first IPv4 fragments. The problem is in the very old inverted pp->dont_defrag check which should not continue when embedded is a non-first TCP/UDP/SCTP fragment. Check for embedded non-first fragment is also missing from ip_vs_out_icmp_v6(), it is needed before any connection lookups that expect ports after the network headers. Drop the blocking code from ip_vs_in_icmp_v6() which prevents ICMPv6 from local clients to use non-MASQ forwarding. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260720201122.79882-1-ja%40ssi.bg Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-07-23ipvs: fix places with wrong packet offsetsJulian Anastasov
The offsets we use to packet headers and payloads should be based on skb->data. We even already respect non-zero network offset in ip_vs_fill_iph_skb() but some places do it wrongly and support only zero offset which is expected for the IP layer where IPVS has hooks. Change all places that instead of skb->data use offsets based on the network header (skb_network_header, ip_hdr, etc) because this doubles the network offset as noted by Sashiko. For ip_vs_nat_icmp_v6() we can even rely on the IPv6 header parsing done by the caller. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260710143733.29741-2-fw%40strlen.de Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-07-23ipvs: fix the checksum validationsJulian Anastasov
ip_vs_in_icmp_v6() is missing checksum validation for ICMPv6 packets from clients. In fact, as for TCP/UDP we should validate the checksum for ICMP packets only when we mangle the packets on MASQ or on reply for tunnel. Also, Sashiko points out that handle_response_icmp() being common for IPv4 and IPv6 is missing the pseudo-header calculation while validating ICMPv6 messages from real servers which is a problem if checksum is not validated by the hardware. Fix the problems by creating ip_vs_checksum_common_check() helper and use it for TCP/UDP/ICMP both for IPv4 and IPv6. Rely on the nf_checksum() for validating the ICMP messages but use it also for TCP and UDP. Use correct IP offset for IP_VS_DBG_RL_PKT for TCP/UDP/SCTP. IPVS packets (TCP/UDP/SCTP/ICMP) do not need checksum validation on LOCAL_OUT (local clients or local real servers) and on FORWARD (traffic from servers on LAN). Do it only on LOCAL_IN, in case nf_checksum() is not called on PRE_ROUTING. Also, ip_vs_checksum_complete() can be marked static. Fixes: 2a3b791e6e11 ("IPVS: Add/adjust Netfilter hook functions and helpers for v6") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260708180315.77413-1-ja%40ssi.bg Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-07-10Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netPaolo Abeni
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.2-rc3). Conflicts: tools/testing/selftests/net/lib.sh dd6a23bac306b ("selftests: net: make busywait timeout clock portable") 895bad9cc4cec ("selftests: net: make busywait timeout clock portable") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-07-08ipvs: pass parsed transport offset to state handlersYizhou Zhao
IPVS callers already parse the packet into struct ip_vs_iphdr before updating connection state. For IPv6 this records the real transport-header offset after extension headers in iph.len. Pass this parsed transport offset through ip_vs_set_state() and the protocol state_transition() callback so protocol handlers can use the same packet context as scheduling and NAT handling. This patch only changes the common callback plumbing and adapts the protocol callback signatures; TCP and SCTP start using the value in follow-up patches. Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2026-07-02netfilter: replace u_int8_t and u_int16t with u8 and u16Carlos Grillet
Use preferred kernel integer type u8 instead of the POSIX u_int8_t variant. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Carlos Grillet <carlos@carlosgrillet.me> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2026-06-05ipvs: add conn_max sysctl to limit connectionsJulian Anastasov
Currently, we are using atomic_t to track the number of connections. On 64-bit setups with large memory there is a risk this counter to overflow. Also, setups with many containers may need to tune the limit for connections. Add sysctl control to limit the number of connections to 1,073,741,824 (64-bit) and 16,777,216 (32-bit). Depending on the admin's privilege, the value is used to change a soft or hard limit allowing unprivileged admins to change the soft limit in range determined by privileged admins. Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260523172715.94795-1-ja%40ssi.bg Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260430074420.26697-7-ja%40ssi.bg Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260522105546.13732-1-ja%40ssi.bg Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-06-01ipvs: clear the svc scheduler ptr early on editJulian Anastasov
ip_vs_edit_service() while unbinding the old scheduler clears the svc->scheduler ptr after the scheduler module initiates RCU callbacks. This can cause packets to use the old scheduler at the time when svc->sched_data is already freed after RCU grace period. Fix it by clearing the ptr early in ip_vs_unbind_scheduler(), before the done_service method schedules any RCU callbacks. Also, if the new scheduler fails to initialize when replacing the old scheduler, try to restore the old scheduler while still returning the error code. Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260519015506.634185-1-rosenp%40gmail.com Fixes: 05f00505a89a ("ipvs: fix crash if scheduler is changed") Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-05-16ipvs: avoid possible loop in ip_vs_dst_event on resizingJulian Anastasov
Sashiko points out that unprivileged user can frequently call ip_vs_flush() or ip_vs_del_service() to trigger svc_table_changes updates that can lead to infinite loop in ip_vs_dst_event(). This can also happen if the user triggers frequent table resizing without deleting all services. We should also consider the possible effects if the user triggers many NETDEV_DOWN events. One way to solve it is to hold svc_resize_sem in ip_vs_dst_event() but this can block the dev notifier during the whole resizing process. Instead, use new rw_semaphore svc_replace_sem to protect just the svc_table replacement which is a short code section. Then hold svc_replace_sem in ip_vs_dst_event() to serialize with replacing the svc_table. As result, loop is avoided as there is no need to repeat the table walking from the start. By this way changes in svc_table_changes can happen only when all services are removed and all dev references dropped which allows us to abort the table walking. As IP_VS_WORK_SVC_NORESIZE is the flag used to stop the svc_resize_work under service_mutex, we should check only this flag often but not while under service_mutex. To remove the mutex_trylock() for service_mutex in the second phase where the resizer installs the new table after rehashing, we will avoid holding the service_mutex there. As result, the code in configuration context which is under service_mutex should access ipvs->svc_table under RCU because it can be replaced at anytime and released after a RCU grace period. As for ip_vs_zero_all(), it needs different solution as a table walker which can escape single RCU read-side critical section: to hold the svc_replace_sem to prevent table to be replaced. In ip_vs_status_show() prefer to hold svc_replace_sem to avoid many loops, just detect if the svc_table is removed. Prefer the newly attached table for the u_thresh/l_thresh checks to know when to grow/shrink while adding or deleting services because the new table size is based on the latest parameters. Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260505001648.360569-1-pablo%40netfilter.org Fixes: 840aac3d900d ("ipvs: use resizable hash table for services") Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-05-05ipvs: Guard access of HK_TYPE_KTHREAD cpumask with RCUWaiman Long
The ip_vs_ctl.c file and the associated ip_vs.h file are the only places in the kernel where HK_TYPE_KTHREAD cpumask is being retrieved and used. Now that HK_TYPE_KTHREAD/HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask can be changed at run time. We need to use RCU to guard access to this cpumask to avoid a potential UAF problem as the returned cpumask may be freed before it is being used. We can replace HK_TYPE_KTHREAD by HK_TYPE_DOMAIN as they are aliases of each other, but keeping the HK_TYPE_KTHREAD name can highlight the fact that it is the kthread initiated by ipvs that is being controlled. Fixes: 03ff73510169 ("cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask from cpuset") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-05-05ipvs: fix races around est_mutex and est_cpulistJulian Anastasov
Sashiko reports for races and possible crash around the usage of est_cpulist_valid and sysctl_est_cpulist. The problem is that we do not lock est_mutex in some places which can lead to wrong write ordering and as result problems when calling cpumask_weight() and cpumask_empty(). Fix them by moving the est_max_threads read/write under locked est_mutex. Do the same for one ip_vs_est_reload_start() call to protect the cpumask_empty() usage of sysctl_est_cpulist. To remove the chance of deadlock while stopping the estimation kthreads, keep the data structure for kthread 0 even after last estimator is removed and do not hold mutexes while stopping this task. Now we will use a new flag 'needed' to know when kthread 0 should run. The kthreads above 0 do not use mutexes, so stop them under est_mutex because their kthread data still can be destroyed if they do not serve estimators. Now all kthreads will be started by the est_reload_work to properly serialize the stop/start for kthread 0. Reduce the use of service_mutex in ip_vs_est_calc_phase() because under est_mutex we can safely walk est_kt_arr to stop the kthreads above slot 0. As ip_vs_stop_estimator() for tot_stats should be called under service_mutex, do it early in the netns exit path in ip_vs_flush() to avoid locking the mutex again later. It still should be called in ip_vs_control_net_cleanup_sysctl() when we are called during netns init error. Use -2 for ktid as indicator if estimator was already stopped. Finally, fix use-after-free for kd->est_row in ip_vs_est_calc_phase(). est->ktrow should simply switch to a delay value while estimator is linked to est_temp_list. Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260331165015.2777765-1-longman%40redhat.com Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260420171308.87192-1-ja%40ssi.bg Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260422125123.40658-1-ja%40ssi.bg Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260424175858.54752-1-ja%40ssi.bg Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260425103918.7447-1-ja%40ssi.bg Fixes: f0be83d54217 ("ipvs: add est_cpulist and est_nice sysctl vars") Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2026-03-04ipvs: use more keys for connection hashingJulian Anastasov
Simon Kirby reported long time ago that IPVS connection hashing based only on the client address/port (caddr, cport) as hash keys is not suitable for setups that accept traffic on multiple virtual IPs and ports. It can happen for multiple VIP:VPORT services, for single or many fwmark service(s) that match multiple virtual IPs and ports or even for passive FTP with peristence in DR/TUN mode where we expect traffic on multiple ports for the virtual IP. Fix it by adding virtual addresses and ports to the hash function. This causes the traffic from NAT real servers to clients to use second hashing for the in->out direction. As result: - the IN direction from client will use hash node hn0 where the source/dest addresses and ports used by client will be used as hash keys - the OUT direction from NAT real servers will use hash node hn1 for the traffic from real server to client - the persistence templates are hashed only with parameters based on the IN direction, so they now will also use the virtual address, port and fwmark from the service. OLD: - all methods: c_list node: proto, caddr:cport - persistence templates: c_list node: proto, caddr_net:0 - persistence engine templates: c_list node: per-PE, PE-SIP uses jhash NEW: - all methods: hn0 node (dir 0): proto, caddr:cport -> vaddr:vport - MASQ method: hn1 node (dir 1): proto, daddr:dport -> caddr:cport - persistence templates: hn0 node (dir 0): proto, caddr_net:0 -> vaddr:vport_or_0 proto, caddr_net:0 -> fwmark:0 - persistence engine templates: hn0 node (dir 0): as before Also reorder the ip_vs_conn fields, so that hash nodes are on same read-mostly cache line while write-mostly fields are on separate cache line. Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2026-03-04ipvs: switch to per-net connection tableJulian Anastasov
Use per-net resizable hash table for connections. The global table is slow to walk when using many namespaces. The table can be resized in the range of [256 - ip_vs_conn_tab_size]. Table is attached only while services are present. Resizing is done by delayed work based on load (the number of connections). Add a hash_key field into the connection to store the table ID in the highest bit and the entry's hash value in the lowest bits. The lowest part of the hash value is used as bucket ID, the remaining part is used to filter the entries in the bucket before matching the keys and as result, helps the lookup operation to access only one cache line. By knowing the table ID and bucket ID for entry, we can unlink it without calculating the hash value and doing lookup by keys. We need only to validate the saved hash_key under lock. For better security switch from jhash to siphash for the default connection hashing but the persistence engines may use their own function. Keeping the hash table loaded with entries below the size (12%) allows to avoid collision for 96+% of the conns. ip_vs_conn_fill_cport() now will rehash the connection with proper locking because unhash+hash is not safe for RCU readers. To invalidate the templates setting just dport to 0xffff is enough, no need to rehash them. As result, ip_vs_conn_unhash() is now unused and removed. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2026-03-04ipvs: use resizable hash table for servicesJulian Anastasov
Make the hash table for services resizable in the bit range of 4-20. Table is attached only while services are present. Resizing is done by delayed work based on load (the number of hashed services). Table grows when load increases 2+ times (above 12.5% with lfactor=-3) and shrinks 8+ times when load decreases 16+ times (below 0.78%). Switch to jhash hashing to reduce the collisions for multiple services. Add a hash_key field into the service to store the table ID in the highest bit and the entry's hash value in the lowest bits. The lowest part of the hash value is used as bucket ID, the remaining part is used to filter the entries in the bucket before matching the keys and as result, helps the lookup operation to access only one cache line. By knowing the table ID and bucket ID for entry, we can unlink it without calculating the hash value and doing lookup by keys. We need only to validate the saved hash_key under lock. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2026-03-04ipvs: add resizable hash tablesJulian Anastasov
Add infrastructure for resizable hash tables based on hlist_bl which we will use in followup patches. The tables allow RCU lookups during resizing, bucket modifications are protected with per-bucket bit lock and additional custom locking, the tables are resized when load reaches thresholds determined based on load factor parameter. Compared to other implementations we rely on: * fast entry removal by using node unlinking without pre-lookup * entry rehashing when hash key changes * entries can contain multiple hash nodes * custom locking depending on different contexts * adjustable load factor to customize the grow/shrink process Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2026-02-25ipvs: no_cport and dropentry counters can be per-netJulian Anastasov
Change the no_cport counters to be per-net and address family. This should reduce the extra conn lookups done during present NO_CPORT connections. By changing from global to per-net dropentry counters, one net will not affect the drop rate of another net. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224205048.4718-7-fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-02-25ipvs: use more counters to avoid service lookupsJulian Anastasov
When new connection is created we can lookup for services multiple times to support fallback options. We already have some counters to skip specific lookups because it costs CPU cycles for hash calculation, etc. Add more counters for fwmark/non-fwmark services (fwm_services and nonfwm_services) and make all counters per address family. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224205048.4718-6-fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-02-25ipvs: use single svc tableJulian Anastasov
fwmark based services and non-fwmark based services can be hashed in same service table. This reduces the burden of working with two tables. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224205048.4718-4-fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-02-25ipvs: make ip_vs_svc_table and ip_vs_svc_fwm_table per netnsJiejian Wu
Current ipvs uses one global mutex "__ip_vs_mutex" to keep the global "ip_vs_svc_table" and "ip_vs_svc_fwm_table" safe. But when there are tens of thousands of services from different netns in the table, it takes a long time to look up the table, for example, using "ipvsadm -ln" from different netns simultaneously. We make "ip_vs_svc_table" and "ip_vs_svc_fwm_table" per netns, and we add "service_mutex" per netns to keep these two tables safe instead of the global "__ip_vs_mutex" in current version. To this end, looking up services from different netns simultaneously will not get stuck, shortening the time consumption in large-scale deployment. It can be reproduced using the simple scripts below. init.sh: #!/bin/bash for((i=1;i<=4;i++));do ip netns add ns$i ip netns exec ns$i ip link set dev lo up ip netns exec ns$i sh add-services.sh done add-services.sh: #!/bin/bash for((i=0;i<30000;i++)); do ipvsadm -A -t 10.10.10.10:$((80+$i)) -s rr done runtest.sh: #!/bin/bash for((i=1;i<4;i++));do ip netns exec ns$i ipvsadm -ln > /dev/null & done ip netns exec ns4 ipvsadm -ln > /dev/null Run "sh init.sh" to initiate the network environment. Then run "time ./runtest.sh" to evaluate the time consumption. Our testbed is a 4-core Intel Xeon ECS. The result of the original version is around 8 seconds, while the result of the modified version is only 0.8 seconds. Signed-off-by: Jiejian Wu <jiejian@linux.alibaba.com> Co-developed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224205048.4718-2-fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-08-13ipvs: Fix estimator kthreads preferred affinityFrederic Weisbecker
The estimator kthreads' affinity are defined by sysctl overwritten preferences and applied through a plain call to the scheduler's affinity API. However since the introduction of managed kthreads preferred affinity, such a practice shortcuts the kthreads core code which eventually overwrites the target to the default unbound affinity. Fix this with using the appropriate kthread's API. Fixes: d1a89197589c ("kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node") Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2023-04-22ipvs: Correct spelling in commentsSimon Horman
Correct some spelling errors flagged by codespell and found by inspection. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2023-04-22ipvs: Remove {Enter,Leave}FunctionSimon Horman
Remove EnterFunction and LeaveFunction. These debugging macros seem well past their use-by date. And seem to have little value these days. Removing them allows some trivial cleanup of some exit paths for some functions. These are also included in this patch. There is likely scope for further cleanup of both debugging and unwind paths. But let's leave that for another day. Only intended to change debug output, and only when CONFIG_IP_VS_DEBUG is enabled. Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2023-04-22ipvs: Update width of source for ip_vs_sync_conn_optionsSimon Horman
In ip_vs_sync_conn_v0() copy is made to struct ip_vs_sync_conn_options. That structure looks like this: struct ip_vs_sync_conn_options { struct ip_vs_seq in_seq; struct ip_vs_seq out_seq; }; The source of the copy is the in_seq field of struct ip_vs_conn. Whose type is struct ip_vs_seq. Thus we can see that the source - is not as wide as the amount of data copied, which is the width of struct ip_vs_sync_conn_option. The copy is safe because the next field in is another struct ip_vs_seq. Make use of struct_group() to annotate this. Flagged by gcc-13 as: In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:254, from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:11, from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:17, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpuid.h:62, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:19, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h:5, from ./include/linux/timex.h:67, from ./include/linux/time32.h:13, from ./include/linux/time.h:60, from ./include/linux/stat.h:19, from ./include/linux/module.h:13, from net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c:38: In function 'fortify_memcpy_chk', inlined from 'ip_vs_sync_conn_v0' at net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c:606:3: ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:529:25: error: call to '__read_overflow2_field' declared with attribute warning: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning] 529 | __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size); | Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2023-02-02ipvs: avoid kfree_rcu without 2nd argJulian Anastasov
Avoid possible synchronize_rcu() as part from the kfree_rcu() call when 2nd arg is not provided. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2022-12-10ipvs: run_estimation should control the kthread tasksJulian Anastasov
Change the run_estimation flag to start/stop the kthread tasks. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang <xintian1976@gmail.com> Cc: "dust.li" <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2022-12-10ipvs: add est_cpulist and est_nice sysctl varsJulian Anastasov
Allow the kthreads for stats to be configured for specific cpulist (isolation) and niceness (scheduling priority). Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang <xintian1976@gmail.com> Cc: "dust.li" <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2022-12-10ipvs: use kthreads for stats estimationJulian Anastasov
Estimating all entries in single list in timer context by single CPU causes large latency with multiple IPVS rules as reported in [1], [2], [3]. Spread the estimator structures in multiple chains and use kthread(s) for the estimation. The chains are processed in multiple (50) timer ticks to ensure the 2-second interval between estimations with some accuracy. Every chain is processed under RCU lock. Every kthread works over its own data structure and all such contexts are attached to array. The contexts can be preserved while the kthread tasks are stopped or restarted. When estimators are removed, unused kthread contexts are released and the slots in array are left empty. First kthread determines parameters to use, eg. maximum number of estimators to process per kthread based on chain's length (chain_max), allowing sub-100us cond_resched rate and estimation taking up to 1/8 of the CPU capacity to avoid any problems if chain_max is not correctly calculated. chain_max is calculated taking into account factors such as CPU speed and memory/cache speed where the cache_factor (4) is selected from real tests with current generation of CPU/NUMA configurations to correct the difference in CPU usage between cached (during calc phase) and non-cached (working) state of the estimated per-cpu data. First kthread also plays the role of distributor of added estimators to all kthreads, keeping low the time to add estimators. The optimization is based on the fact that newly added estimator should be estimated after 2 seconds, so we have the time to offload the adding to chain from controlling process to kthread 0. The allocated kthread context may grow from 1 to 50 allocated structures for timer ticks which saves memory for setups with small number of estimators. We also add delayed work est_reload_work that will make sure the kthread tasks are properly started/stopped. ip_vs_start_estimator() is changed to report errors which allows to safely store the estimators in allocated structures. Many thanks to Jiri Wiesner for his valuable comments and for spending a lot of time reviewing and testing the changes on different platforms with 48-256 CPUs and 1-8 NUMA nodes under different cpufreq governors. [1] Report from Yunhong Jiang: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/D25792C1-1B89-45DE-9F10-EC350DC04ADC@gmail.com/ [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-virtual-server&m=159679809118027&w=2 [3] Report from Dust: https://archive.linuxvirtualserver.org/html/lvs-devel/2020-12/msg00000.html Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang <xintian1976@gmail.com> Cc: "dust.li" <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de> Tested-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2022-12-10ipvs: use u64_stats_t for the per-cpu countersJulian Anastasov
Use the provided u64_stats_t type to avoid load/store tearing. Fixes: 316580b69d0a ("u64_stats: provide u64_stats_t type") Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang <xintian1976@gmail.com> Cc: "dust.li" <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de> Tested-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2022-12-10ipvs: use common functions for stats allocationJulian Anastasov
Move alloc_percpu/free_percpu logic in new functions Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang <xintian1976@gmail.com> Cc: "dust.li" <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2022-12-10ipvs: add rcu protection to statsJulian Anastasov
In preparation to using RCU locking for the list with estimators, make sure the struct ip_vs_stats are released after RCU grace period by using RCU callbacks. This affects ipvs->tot_stats where we can not use RCU callbacks for ipvs, so we use allocated struct ip_vs_stats_rcu. For services and dests we force RCU callbacks for all cases. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang <xintian1976@gmail.com> Cc: "dust.li" <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Wiesner <jwiesner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2021-10-07ipvs: add sysctl_run_estimation to support disable estimationDust Li
estimation_timer will iterate the est_list to do estimation for each ipvs stats. When there are lots of services, the list can be very large. We found that estimation_timer() run for more then 200ms on a machine with 104 CPU and 50K services. yunhong-cgl jiang report the same phenomenon before: https://www.spinics.net/lists/lvs-devel/msg05426.html In some cases(for example a large K8S cluster with many ipvs services), ipvs estimation may not be needed. So adding a sysctl blob to allow users to disable this completely. Default is: 1 (enable) Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang <xintian1976@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2021-02-04netfilter: move handlers to net/ip_vs.hLeon Romanovsky
Fix the following compilation warnings: net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_tcp.c:147:1: warning: no previous prototype for 'tcp_snat_handler' [-Wmissing-prototypes] 147 | tcp_snat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ip_vs_protocol *pp, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_udp.c:136:1: warning: no previous prototype for 'udp_snat_handler' [-Wmissing-prototypes] 136 | udp_snat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ip_vs_protocol *pp, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-08-31ipvs: remove dependency on ip6_tablesYaroslav Bolyukin
This dependency was added because ipv6_find_hdr was in iptables specific code but is no longer required Fixes: f8f626754ebe ("ipv6: Move ipv6_find_hdr() out of Netfilter code.") Fixes: 63dca2c0b0e7 ("ipvs: Fix faulty IPv6 extension header handling in IPVS") Signed-off-by: Yaroslav Bolyukin <iam@lach.pw> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2020-07-22ipvs: queue delayed work to expire no destination connections if ↵Andrew Sy Kim
expire_nodest_conn=1 When expire_nodest_conn=1 and a destination is deleted, IPVS does not expire the existing connections until the next matching incoming packet. If there are many connection entries from a single client to a single destination, many packets may get dropped before all the connections are expired (more likely with lots of UDP traffic). An optimization can be made where upon deletion of a destination, IPVS queues up delayed work to immediately expire any connections with a deleted destination. This ensures any reused source ports from a client (within the IPVS timeouts) are scheduled to new real servers instead of silently dropped. Signed-off-by: Andrew Sy Kim <kim.andrewsy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2020-07-04ipvs: allow connection reuse for unconfirmed conntrackJulian Anastasov
YangYuxi is reporting that connection reuse is causing one-second delay when SYN hits existing connection in TIME_WAIT state. Such delay was added to give time to expire both the IPVS connection and the corresponding conntrack. This was considered a rare case at that time but it is causing problem for some environments such as Kubernetes. As nf_conntrack_tcp_packet() can decide to release the conntrack in TIME_WAIT state and to replace it with a fresh NEW conntrack, we can use this to allow rescheduling just by tuning our check: if the conntrack is confirmed we can not schedule it to different real server and the one-second delay still applies but if new conntrack was created, we are free to select new real server without any delays. YangYuxi lists some of the problem reports: - One second connection delay in masquerading mode: https://marc.info/?t=151683118100004&r=1&w=2 - IPVS low throughput #70747 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/70747 - Apache Bench can fill up ipvs service proxy in seconds #544 https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/issues/544 - Additional 1s latency in `host -> service IP -> pod` https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/90854 Fixes: f719e3754ee2 ("ipvs: drop first packet to redirect conntrack") Co-developed-by: YangYuxi <yx.atom1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: YangYuxi <yx.atom1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2020-06-30ipvs: register hooks only with servicesJulian Anastasov
Keep the IPVS hooks registered in Netfilter only while there are configured virtual services. This saves CPU cycles while IPVS is loaded but not used. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2019-11-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netDavid S. Miller
The only slightly tricky merge conflict was the netdevsim because the mutex locking fix overlapped a lot of driver reload reorganization. The rest were (relatively) trivial in nature. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-10-24ipvs: move old_secure_tcp into struct netns_ipvsEric Dumazet
syzbot reported the following issue : BUG: KCSAN: data-race in update_defense_level / update_defense_level read to 0xffffffff861a6260 of 4 bytes by task 3006 on cpu 1: update_defense_level+0x621/0xb30 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:177 defense_work_handler+0x3d/0xd0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:225 process_one_work+0x3d4/0x890 kernel/workqueue.c:2269 worker_thread+0xa0/0x800 kernel/workqueue.c:2415 kthread+0x1d4/0x200 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1253 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352 write to 0xffffffff861a6260 of 4 bytes by task 7333 on cpu 0: update_defense_level+0xa62/0xb30 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:205 defense_work_handler+0x3d/0xd0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:225 process_one_work+0x3d4/0x890 kernel/workqueue.c:2269 worker_thread+0xa0/0x800 kernel/workqueue.c:2415 kthread+0x1d4/0x200 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1253 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 PID: 7333 Comm: kworker/0:5 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue: events defense_work_handler Indeed, old_secure_tcp is currently a static variable, while it needs to be a per netns variable. Fixes: a0840e2e165a ("IPVS: netns, ip_vs_ctl local vars moved to ipvs struct.") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2019-10-08ipvs: batch __ip_vs_cleanupHaishuang Yan
It's better to batch __ip_vs_cleanup to speedup ipvs connections dismantle. Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@cmss.chinamobile.com> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>