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| author | Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org> | 2026-09-02 15:31:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> | 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -0700 |
| commit | 3a2c4d55e32ad65efebdb6de44eef3bfa08bb49d (patch) | |
| tree | c65086f9bdcd48c6360fb7cb4598bca084da1f32 /Documentation/networking/tproxy.rst | |
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treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversionsgrafted
This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc()
family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci
This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first
kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the
first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h
scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's
"--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped
to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control
flow indicator I could find.
Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc,
riscv, and s390 with no new warnings.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tproxy.rst b/Documentation/networking/tproxy.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..75e4990cc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/tproxy.rst @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========================= +Transparent proxy support +========================= + +This feature adds Linux 2.2-like transparent proxy support to current kernels. +To use it, enable the socket match and the TPROXY target in your kernel config. +You will need policy routing too, so be sure to enable that as well. + +From Linux 4.18 transparent proxy support is also available in nf_tables. + +1. Making non-local sockets work +================================ + +The idea is that you identify packets with destination address matching a local +socket on your box, set the packet mark to a certain value:: + + # iptables -t mangle -N DIVERT + # iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m socket --transparent -j DIVERT + # iptables -t mangle -A DIVERT -j MARK --set-mark 1 + # iptables -t mangle -A DIVERT -j ACCEPT + +Alternatively you can do this in nft with the following commands:: + + # nft add table filter + # nft add chain filter divert "{ type filter hook prerouting priority -150; }" + # nft add rule filter divert meta l4proto tcp socket transparent 1 meta mark set 1 accept + +And then match on that value using policy routing to have those packets +delivered locally:: + + # ip rule add fwmark 1 lookup 100 + # ip route add local 0.0.0.0/0 dev lo table 100 + +Because of certain restrictions in the IPv4 routing output code you'll have to +modify your application to allow it to send datagrams _from_ non-local IP +addresses. All you have to do is enable the (SOL_IP, IP_TRANSPARENT) socket +option before calling bind:: + + fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); + /* - 8< -*/ + int value = 1; + setsockopt(fd, SOL_IP, IP_TRANSPARENT, &value, sizeof(value)); + /* - 8< -*/ + name.sin_family = AF_INET; + name.sin_port = htons(0xCAFE); + name.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(0xDEADBEEF); + bind(fd, &name, sizeof(name)); + +A trivial patch for netcat is available here: +http://people.netfilter.org/hidden/tproxy/netcat-ip_transparent-support.patch + + +2. Redirecting traffic +====================== + +Transparent proxying often involves "intercepting" traffic on a router. This is +usually done with the iptables REDIRECT target; however, there are serious +limitations of that method. One of the major issues is that it actually +modifies the packets to change the destination address -- which might not be +acceptable in certain situations. (Think of proxying UDP for example: you won't +be able to find out the original destination address. Even in case of TCP +getting the original destination address is racy.) + +The 'TPROXY' target provides similar functionality without relying on NAT. Simply +add rules like this to the iptables ruleset above:: + + # iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j TPROXY \ + --tproxy-mark 0x1/0x1 --on-port 50080 + +Or the following rule to nft:: + + # nft add rule filter divert tcp dport 80 tproxy to :50080 meta mark set 1 accept + +Note that for this to work you'll have to modify the proxy to enable (SOL_IP, +IP_TRANSPARENT) for the listening socket. + +As an example implementation, tcprdr is available here: +https://git.breakpoint.cc/cgit/fw/tcprdr.git/ +This tool is written by Florian Westphal and it was used for testing during the +nf_tables implementation. + +3. Iptables and nf_tables extensions +==================================== + +To use tproxy you'll need to have the following modules compiled for iptables: + + - NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_SOCKET + - NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_TPROXY + +Or the floowing modules for nf_tables: + + - NFT_SOCKET + - NFT_TPROXY + +4. Application support +====================== + +4.1. Squid +---------- + +Squid 3.HEAD has support built-in. To use it, pass +'--enable-linux-netfilter' to configure and set the 'tproxy' option on +the HTTP listener you redirect traffic to with the TPROXY iptables +target. + +For more information please consult the following page on the Squid +wiki: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/Tproxy4 |
