netfilter: nf_nat: don't try nat source port reallocation for reverse dir clash
A conntrack entry can be inserted to the connection tracking table if there is no existing entry with an identical tuple in either direction. Example: INITIATOR -> NAT/PAT -> RESPONDER Initiator passes through NAT/PAT ("us") and SNAT is done (saddr rewrite). Then, later, NAT/PAT machine itself also wants to connect to RESPONDER. This will not work if the SNAT done earlier has same IP:PORT source pair. Conntrack table has: ORIGINAL: $IP_INITATOR:$SPORT -> $IP_RESPONDER:$DPORT REPLY: $IP_RESPONDER:$DPORT -> $IP_NAT:$SPORT and new locally originating connection wants: ORIGINAL: $IP_NAT:$SPORT -> $IP_RESPONDER:$DPORT REPLY: $IP_RESPONDER:$DPORT -> $IP_NAT:$SPORT This is handled by the NAT engine which will do a source port reallocation for the locally originating connection that is colliding with an existing tuple by attempting a source port rewrite. This is done even if this new connection attempt did not go through a masquerade/snat rule. There is a rare race condition with connection-less protocols like UDP, where we do the port reallocation even though its not needed. This happens when new packets from the same, pre-existing flow are received in both directions at the exact same time on different CPUs after the conntrack table was flushed (or conntrack becomes active for first time). With strict ordering/single cpu, the first packet creates new ct entry and second packet is resolved as established reply packet. With parallel processing, both packets are picked up as new and both get their own ct entry. In this case, the 'reply' packet (picked up as ORIGINAL) can be mangled by NAT engine because a port collision is detected. This change isn't enough to prevent a packet drop later during nf_conntrack_confirm(), the existing clash resolution strategy will not detect such reverse clash case. This is resolved by a followup patch. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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