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Xin Long 576a5d2bad netfilter: skip recording stale or retransmitted INIT
An INIT whose init_tag matches the peer's vtag does not provide new state
information. It indicates either:

- a stale INIT (after INIT-ACK has already been seen on the same side), or
- a retransmitted INIT (after INIT has already been recorded on the same
  side).

In both cases, the INIT must not update ct->proto.sctp.init[] state, since
it does not advance the handshake tracking and may otherwise corrupt
INIT/INIT-ACK validation logic.

Allow INIT processing only when the conntrack entry is newly created
(SCTP_CONNTRACK_NONE), or when the init_tag differs from the stored peer
vtag.

Note it skips the check for the ct with old_state SCTP_CONNTRACK_NONE in
nf_conntrack_sctp_packet(), as it is just created in sctp_new() where it
set ct->proto.sctp.vtag[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY] = ih->init_tag.

Fixes: 9fb9cbb108 ("[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.")
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ee56c3e416452b2a40589a2a85245ac2ad5e9f4b.1777214801.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-28 17:52:19 -07:00
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