This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: net-ipv6-increment-outxxx-counters-after-netfilter-hook.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 23:20:08 CEST 2018

From: Jeff Barnhill 0xeffeff@gmail.com Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:29:47 +0000 Subject: net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook

From: Jeff Barnhill 0xeffeff@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit 71a1c915238c970cd9bdd5bf158b1279d6b6d55b ]

At the end of ip6_forward(), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS and IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS are incremented immediately before the NF_HOOK call for NFPROTO_IPV6 / NF_INET_FORWARD. As a result, these counters get incremented regardless of whether or not the netfilter hook allows the packet to continue being processed. This change increments the counters in ip6_forward_finish() so that it will not happen if the netfilter hook chooses to terminate the packet, which is similar to how IPv4 works.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Barnhill 0xeffeff@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -375,6 +375,11 @@ static int ip6_forward_proxy_check(struc static inline int ip6_forward_finish(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) { + struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb); + + __IP6_INC_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS); + __IP6_ADD_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS, skb->len); + return dst_output(net, sk, skb); }

@@ -568,8 +573,6 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb)

hdr->hop_limit--;

- __IP6_INC_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS); - __IP6_ADD_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS, skb->len); return NF_HOOK(NFPROTO_IPV6, NF_INET_FORWARD, net, NULL, skb, skb->dev, dst->dev, ip6_forward_finish);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 0xeffeff@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/net-ipv6-increment-outxxx-counters-after-netfilter-hook.patch