Re: [PATCH] [NETFILTER]: Keep conntrack reference until IPsecv6 policy checks are done

From: Florian Westphal
Date: Wed Mar 01 2023 - 10:08:08 EST


Madhu Koriginja <madhu.koriginja@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Keep the conntrack reference until policy checks have been performed for
> IPsec V6 NAT support. The reference needs to be dropped before a packet is
> queued to avoid having the conntrack module unloadable.

In the old days there was no ipv6 nat so its not surpising
that ipv6 discards the conntrack entry earlier than ipv4.

> - if (!(ipprot->flags & INET6_PROTO_NOPOLICY) &&
> - !xfrm6_policy_check(NULL, XFRM_POLICY_IN, skb))
> - goto discard;
> +
> + if (!ipprot->flags & INET6_PROTO_NOPOLICY) {

This looks wrong, why did you drop the () ?

if (!(ipprot->flags & INET6_PROTO_NOPOLICY)) { ...

rest LGTM.