Patch "net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-ipv6-increment-outxxx-counters-after-netfilter-hook.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Jeff Barnhill <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:29:47 +0000
Subject: net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook

From: Jeff Barnhill <[email protected]>

[ 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.

---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -356,6 +356,11 @@ 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);
 }
 

@@ -549,8 +554,6 @@ 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 [email protected] are

queue-4.9/net-ipv6-increment-outxxx-counters-after-netfilter-hook.patch