cake_update_flowkeys() is supposed to update the flow dissector keys with the NAT-translated addresses and ports from conntrack, so that CAKE's per-flow fairness correctly identifies post-NAT flows as belonging to the same connection. For the source port, this works correctly: keys->ports.src = port; /* writes conntrack port into keys */ But for the destination port, the assignment is reversed: port = keys->ports.dst; /* reads FROM keys into local var — no-op */ This means the NAT destination port is never updated in the flow keys. As a result, when multiple connections are NATed to the same destination (same IP + same port), CAKE treats them as separate flows because the original (pre-NAT) destination ports differ. This completely defeats CAKE's NAT-aware flow isolation when using the "nat" mode. The vulnerability was introduced in commit b0c19ed6088a ("sch_cake: Take advantage of skb->hash where appropriate") which refactored the original direct assignment into a compare-and-conditionally-update pattern, but wrote the destination port update backwards. Fix by reversing the assignment direction to match the source port pattern. Fixes: b0c19ed6088a ("sch_cake: Take advantage of skb->hash where appropriate") Signed-off-by: Dudu Lu --- net/sched/sch_cake.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sched/sch_cake.c b/net/sched/sch_cake.c index 9efe23f8371b..4ac6c36ca6e4 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_cake.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_cake.c @@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static bool cake_update_flowkeys(struct flow_keys *keys, } port = rev ? tuple.src.u.all : tuple.dst.u.all; if (port != keys->ports.dst) { - port = keys->ports.dst; + keys->ports.dst = port; upd = true; } } -- 2.39.3 (Apple Git-145)