[PATCH net] netfilter: nf_dup_netdev: scrub duplicates to preserve the direct path

The nftables 'dup' action clones the skb with its full glory of
metadata, including references to its destination and conntrack
information. As a consequence, a link failure on the duplicate's
egress path ends up doing the same as it would for the direct path,
for example invalidating the original packet's destination, which
typically breaks all TCP connections to that address.

In other words, the "dup" path has the potential to wreak havoc
in the direct path as a consequence of secondary link failures. This
is very bad behavior for a monitoring tool, which is the most
obvious application of 'dup'.

This patch fixes all similar scenarii by calling skb_scrub_pkt()
on the clone, severing its link to precious direct-path state.

Note: the second argument of skb_scrub_pkt(), the boolean "packet
is crossing netns", is intentionally set to 'false', as a 'true'
involves exaggerate scrubbing, e.g. of the timestamp, which a
monitoring 'dup' typically wants to preserve.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ferrieux <[email protected]>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c b/net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c
index c6bd5c29bed6..0f47a2135955 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c
@@ -63,8 +63,10 @@ void nf_dup_netdev_egress(const struct nft_pktinfo *pkt, int oif)
 		return;
 
 	skb = skb_clone(pkt->skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (skb)
+	if (skb) {
+		skb_scrub_packet(skb, false);
 		nf_do_netdev_egress(skb, dev, nft_hook(pkt));
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_dup_netdev_egress);
 
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