Subject: Re: [PATCH net v5 2/2] net: netfilter: Fix port selection of FTP for NF_NAT_RANGE_PROTO_SPECIFIED

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:23:05 +0200

Cole Dishington <[email-masked]> wrote:
> FTP port selection ignores specified port ranges (with iptables
> masquerade --to-ports) when creating an expectation, based on
> FTP commands PORT or PASV, for the data connection.
> 
> For masquerading, this issue allows an FTP client to use unassigned
> source ports for their data connection (in both the PORT and PASV
> cases). This can cause problems in setups that allocate different
> masquerade port ranges for each client.
> 
> The proposed fix involves storing a port range (on nf_conn_nat) to:
> - Fix FTP PORT data connections using the stored port range to select a
>   port number in nf_conntrack_ftp.
> - Fix FTP PASV data connections using the stored port range to specify a
>   port range on source port in nf_nat_helper if the FTP PORT/PASV packet
>   comes from the client.

Looks much simpler now, thanks.

Acked-by: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>