[patch 66/67] NETFILTER: NAT: fix NOTRACK checksum handling

[Greg KH]

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>

The whole idea with the NOTRACK netfilter target is that
you can force the netfilter code to avoid connection
tracking, and all costs assosciated with it, by making
traffic match a NOTRACK rule.

But this is totally broken by the fact that we do a checksum
calculation over the packet before we do the NOTRACK bypass
check, which is very expensive.  People setup NOTRACK rules
explicitly to avoid all of these kinds of costs.

This patch from Patrick, already in Linus's tree, fixes the
bug.

Move the check for ip_conntrack_untracked before the call to
skb_checksum_help to fix NOTRACK excemptions from NAT. Pre-2.6.19
NAT code breaks TSO by invalidating hardware checksums for every
packet, even if explicitly excluded from NAT through NOTRACK.

2.6.19 includes a fix that makes NAT and TSO live in harmony,
but the performance degradation caused by this deserves making
at least the workaround work properly in -stable.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_standalone.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.18.orig/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_standalone.c
+++ linux-2.6.18/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_standalone.c
@@ -110,12 +110,17 @@ ip_nat_fn(unsigned int hooknum,
 	IP_NF_ASSERT(!((*pskb)->nh.iph->frag_off
 		       & htons(IP_MF|IP_OFFSET)));
 
+	ct = ip_conntrack_get(*pskb, &ctinfo);
+
+	/* Don't try to NAT if this packet is not conntracked */
+	if (ct == &ip_conntrack_untracked)
+		return NF_ACCEPT;
+
 	/* If we had a hardware checksum before, it's now invalid */
 	if ((*pskb)->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_HW)
 		if (skb_checksum_help(*pskb, (out == NULL)))
 			return NF_DROP;
 
-	ct = ip_conntrack_get(*pskb, &ctinfo);
 	/* Can't track?  It's not due to stress, or conntrack would
 	   have dropped it.  Hence it's the user's responsibilty to
 	   packet filter it out, or implement conntrack/NAT for that
@@ -137,10 +142,6 @@ ip_nat_fn(unsigned int hooknum,
 		return NF_ACCEPT;
 	}
 
-	/* Don't try to NAT if this packet is not conntracked */
-	if (ct == &ip_conntrack_untracked)
-		return NF_ACCEPT;
-
 	switch (ctinfo) {
 	case IP_CT_RELATED:
 	case IP_CT_RELATED+IP_CT_IS_REPLY:

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