[PATCH v4 nf-next 0/3] ipvs: add per-service secure_tcp
From: Adriano Cordova <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-20 05:47:17
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IPVS currently exposes secure_tcp as a per-netns sysctl. It switches the
TCP state machine to the hardened tcp_states_dos table.
These patches make it per-service: a virtual service can set
IP_VS_SVC_F_SECURE_TCP which is passed into IP_VS_CONN_F_SECURE_TCP at
connection creation. set_tcp_state() then selects tcp_states_dos for those
connections with IP_VS_CONN_F_SECURE_TCP set and keeps pd->tcp_state_table
(the netns default, including the nomem floor) otherwise.
1. uapi: define the per-service secure_tcp flags and stamp the flag in
ip_vs_bind_dest() (cache-bypass has no dest)
2. honor it in the TCP state machine, resolving the stale FIXME
3. kselftest contrasting a secure vs. a plain service
Changes in v2:
- Let IP_VS_SVC_F_SECURE_TCP be 0x0100, leaving 0x0040/0x0080 for the
scheduler flags. Let IP_VS_CONN_F_SECURE_TCP be (1 << 17) and no longer
in IP_VS_CONN_F_BACKUP_MASK.
- Set flag in ip_vs_bind_dest() instead of at every ip_vs_conn_new()
call site.
- selftest: send probes with TTL=1 instead of an nft drop, and fix
Sashiko comments.
Changes in v3:
- Merge patch 1/4 and 2/4
- Re-send patches (v2 dropped patches 3/4 and 4/4)
Changes in v4:
- selftest: check the return values of setsockopt(IP_HDRINCL), sendto()
and mnl_socket_bind(), and fail do_add() when IPVS does not reply.
- selftest: fix the remaining Sashiko comments: check inet_pton(),
initialize fam and the parsed addresses, and verify the flags attribute
length before copying it.
Adriano Cordova (3):
ipvs: add flags for per-service secure TCP state table
ipvs: tcp: enable per-connection secure_tcp in state machine
selftests: netfilter: ipvs: add per-service secure_tcp test
include/uapi/linux/ip_vs.h | 2 +
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 +
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 3 +
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_tcp.c | 16 +-
.../testing/selftests/net/netfilter/Makefile | 6 +
.../selftests/net/netfilter/gen_tcp_probe.c | 158 ++++++++
.../net/netfilter/ipvs_secure_tcp.sh | 153 ++++++++
.../net/netfilter/ipvs_secure_tcp_mln.c | 337 ++++++++++++++++++
8 files changed, 672 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/gen_tcp_probe.c
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/ipvs_secure_tcp.sh
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/ipvs_secure_tcp_mln.c
base-commit: 87b80c2f6b05cad9f0ff9136709c62a0f59923e3
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