netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: remove old clash resolution logic
For historical reasons there are two clash resolution spots in netfilter, one in nfnetlink_queue and one in conntrack core. nfnetlink_queue one was added first: If a colliding entry is found, NAT NAT transformation is reversed by calling nat engine again with altered tuple. See commit 368982cd ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: resolve clash for unconfirmed conntracks") for details. One problem is that nf_reroute() won't take an action if the queueing doesn't occur in the OUTPUT hook, i.e. when queueing in forward or postrouting, packet will be sent via the wrong path. Another problem is that the scenario addressed (2nd UDP packet sent with identical addresses while first packet is still being processed) can also occur without any nfqueue involvement due to threaded resolvers doing A and AAAA requests back-to-back. This lead us to add clash resolution logic to the conntrack core, see commit 6a757c07 ("netfilter: conntrack: allow insertion of clashing entries"). Instead of fixing the nfqueue based logic, lets remove it and let conntrack core handle this instead. Retain the ->update hook for sake of nfqueue based conntrack helpers. We could axe this hook completely but we'd have to split confirm and helper logic again, see commit ee04805f ("netfilter: conntrack: make conntrack userspace helpers work again"). This SHOULD NOT be backported to kernels earlier than v5.6; they lack adequate clash resolution handling. Patch was originally written by Pablo Neira Ayuso. Reported-by: Antonio Ojea <aojea@google.com> Closes: https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1766Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Tested-by: Antonio Ojea <aojea@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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