From: Arthur Bied-Charreton <a.bied-charreton@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH pve-firewall 0/2] ebtables: fix ARP filter for alias and nomatch ipfilter entries
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:38:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261012093956.285433-1-a.bied-charreton@proxmox.com> (raw)
Following this forum post [0], I looked into what might be generating
the
value does not look like a valid IP address or CIDR network
log lines, which show up once per affected guest on every update cycle.
When building the ARP filter from an ipfilter-netX ipset, entries were
passed verbatim to parse_ip_or_cidr(), so an alias entry, or one the
parser already flagged as invalid, makes it die. The error aborts the
whole guest in compile_ebtables_filter(), so the guest ends up with no
ebtables rules at all.
Before bbd02dae ("firewall: log compilation errors in syslog"), the
error went to warn(), which the daemon ignores, so the layer-2 filter
was missing silently.
Patch 1 resolves entries the same way generate_ipset_chains() does,
skips entries the parser errored on, and logs errors per entry with
more context to make debugging easier.
While looking into this, I also noticed that nomatch entries were added
to the ARP filter as allowed sources. Patch 2 emits DROP for them to
honor nomatch.
[0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pve-firewall-log-value-does-not-look-like-a-valid-ip-address-or-cidr-network.186990/#post-872700
Arthur Bied-Charreton (2):
firewall: ebtables: resolve aliases in ipfilter ipsets
firewall: ebtables: honor nomatch in ipfilter ipsets
src/PVE/Firewall.pm | 86 +++++++++++++-------
src/test/Makefile | 2 +-
src/test/test_ebtables_ipfilter.pl | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 src/test/test_ebtables_ipfilter.pl
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2.47.3
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2026-10-12 9:38 Arthur Bied-Charreton [this message]
2026-10-12 9:38 ` [PATCH pve-firewall 1/2] firewall: ebtables: resolve aliases in ipfilter ipsets Arthur Bied-Charreton
2026-10-12 9:38 ` [PATCH pve-firewall 2/2] firewall: ebtables: honor nomatch " Arthur Bied-Charreton
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