Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack

[Nicolas Dichtel]

Le 18/11/2019 Ã 22:19, Aaron Conole a ÃcritÂ:
> Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Le 08/11/2019 Ã 22:07, Aaron Conole a ÃcritÂ:
>>> The openvswitch module shares a common conntrack and NAT infrastructure
>>> exposed via netfilter.  It's possible that a packet needs both SNAT and
>>> DNAT manipulation, due to e.g. tuple collision.  Netfilter can support
>>> this because it runs through the NAT table twice - once on ingress and
>>> again after egress.  The openvswitch module doesn't have such capability.
>>>
>>> Like netfilter hook infrastructure, we should run through NAT twice to
>>> keep the symmetry.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 05752523e565 ("openvswitch: Interface with NAT.")
>>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> In this case, ovs_ct_find_existing() won't be able to find the
>> conntrack, right?
> 
> vswitchd normally won't allow both actions to get programmed.  Even the
> kernel module won't allow it, so this really will only happen when the
> connection gets established via the nf_hook path, and then needs to be
> processed via openvswitch.  In those cases, the tuple lookup should be
> correct, because the nf_nat table should contain the correct tuple data,
> and the skbuff should have the correct tuples in the packet data to
> begin with.
> 
>> Inverting the tuple to find the conntrack doesn't work anymore with double NAT.
>> Am I wrong?
> 
> I think since the packet was double-NAT on the way out (via nf_hook
> path), then the incoming reply will have the correct NAT tuples and the
> lookup will happen just fine.  Just that during processing, both
> transformations aren't applied.
Ok, I didn't look deeply, thank you for the explanation.

Regards,
Nicolas