Otherwise, the kernel oopses in nla_for_each_nested when iterating over the unset attribute NFTA_SET_ELEM_LIST_ELEMENTS in the nf_tables_{new,del}setelem() path. netlink: 65524 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `nft'. [...] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [...] CPU: 2 PID: 6287 Comm: nft Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2+ #169 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0526e61>] [<ffffffffa0526e61>] nf_tables_newsetelem+0x82/0xec [nf_tables] [...] Call Trace: [<ffffffffa05178c4>] nfnetlink_rcv+0x2e7/0x3d7 [nfnetlink] [<ffffffffa0517939>] ? nfnetlink_rcv+0x35c/0x3d7 [nfnetlink] [<ffffffff8137d300>] netlink_unicast+0xf8/0x17a [<ffffffff8137d6a5>] netlink_sendmsg+0x323/0x351 [...] Fix this by returning -EINVAL if this attribute is not set, which doesn't make sense at all since those commands are there to add and to delete elements from the set. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index ecffb26..93692d6 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -3073,6 +3073,9 @@ static int nf_tables_newsetelem(struct sock *nlsk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct nft_ctx ctx; int rem, err = 0; + if (nla[NFTA_SET_ELEM_LIST_ELEMENTS] == NULL) + return -EINVAL; + err = nft_ctx_init_from_elemattr(&ctx, skb, nlh, nla, true); if (err < 0) return err; @@ -3156,6 +3159,9 @@ static int nf_tables_delsetelem(struct sock *nlsk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct nft_ctx ctx; int rem, err = 0; + if (nla[NFTA_SET_ELEM_LIST_ELEMENTS] == NULL) + return -EINVAL; + err = nft_ctx_init_from_elemattr(&ctx, skb, nlh, nla, false); if (err < 0) return err; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html