Redirect rules use PFIL_IN and PFIL_OUT events to allow packet filter
rules to change the destination address and port for a connection.
Typically, the rule triggers on an input event when a packet is received
by a router and the destination address and/or port is changed to
implement the redirect. When a reply packet on this connection is output
to the network, the rule triggers again, reversing the modification.
When the connection is initiated on the same host as the packet filter,
it is initially output via lo0 which queues it for input processing.
This causes an input event on the lo0 interface, allowing redirect
processing to rewrite the destination and create state for the
connection. However, when the reply is received, no corresponding output
event is generated; instead, the packet is delivered to the higher level
protocol (e.g. tcp or udp) without reversing the redirect, the reply is
not matched to the connection and the packet is dropped (for tcp, a
connection reset is also sent).
This commit fixes the problem by adding a second packet filter call in
the input path. The second call happens right before the handoff to
higher level processing and provides the missing output event to allow
the redirect's reply processing to perform its rewrite. This extra
processing is disabled by default and can be enabled using pfilctl:
pfilctl link -o pf:default-out inet-local
pfilctl link -o pf:default-out6 inet6-local
PR: 268717
Reviewed-by: kp, melifaro
MFC-after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40256
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