Re: Kernel 5.0-rc5 regression with NAT, bisected to: netfilter: nat: remove l4proto->manip_pkt

[Florian Westphal]

Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> L.S.,
> 
> While trying out a 5.0-RC5 kernel I seem to have stumbled over a regression with NAT.
> (using an nftables firewall with NAT and connection tracking).
> 
> Unfortunately it isn't too obvious since no errors are logged, but on clients it
> causes symptoms like firefox intermittently not being able to load pages with:
>     Network Protocol Error
>     An error occurred during a connection to www.example.com
>     The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because an error in the network protocol was detected.
>     Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
> 
> But it's only intermittently, so i can still visit some webpages with clients, 
> could be that packet size and or fragments are at play ?
> 
> So I tried testing with git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git with 
> e8c32c32b48c2e889704d8ca0872f92eb027838e as last commit, to be sure to have the latest netdev has to offer,
> but to no avail. 
> 
> After that I tried to git bisect and ended up with:
> 
> faec18dbb0405c7d4dda025054511dc3a6696918 is the first bad commit
> commit faec18dbb0405c7d4dda025054511dc3a6696918
> Author: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Dec 13 16:01:33 2018 +0100
> 
>     netfilter: nat: remove l4proto->manip_pkt

Thanks, this is immensely helpful.

I think I see the bug, we can't use target->dst.protonum in
nf_nat_l4proto_manip_pkt(), it will be TCP in case we're dealing
with a related icmp packet.

I will send a patch in a few hours when I get back.