On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [ CC'ing Willem ] > >> (Summary of IRC conversation for background...) >> Paul Moore and I hit what appears to be a bug since f25's 4.10.11 and >> upstream's 4.11-rc3 that would fail to locate on deletion an icmp rule >> in iptables. Paul narrowed it down to the icmp option. >> Here's our issue where it came up: >> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite/pull/43#issuecomment-296831880 >> >> The test case is: >> # iptables -t mangle -I INPUT -i lo -p icmp --icmp-type 1 -j MARK --set-mark 0xdeadbeef >> # iptables -t mangle -D INPUT -i lo -p icmp --icmp-type 1 -j MARK --set-mark 0xdeadbeef >> The error we're getting is "iptables: No chain/target/match by that name." > > This is a iptables (yes, userspace) bug exposed with > f77bc5b23fb1af51fc0faa8a479dea8969eb5079 > (iptables: use match, target and data copy_to_user helpers) > > icmp is 4 byte in size, but for some silly(?) reason userspace size > in iptables userland is set as XT_ALIGN(sizeof(ipt_icmp), so userspace > thinks its 8. > > In 4.10, kernel copied the full kernel blob to userspace, and since > its allocated with kz/vzalloc the 4 padding bytes are 0. > > libiptc uses malloc, so in case that contains garbage bytes the > memcmp() used to figure out if we found the correct rule in libiptc > during -D mode returns false because it chokes on the extra padding > after struct ipt_icmp match :-/ > > Simples fix is to use calloc/memset to 0 in libiptc, but we can't > go with userspace-only fix ... > > So we have to fix this in the kernel and have xt_data_to_user() > zero out any padding as well. > > Willem, if you don't have time to fix this let me know and i'll > try to work on this tomorrow. Thanks, Florian. Also for the detailed context. I'm having a look. The following might be sufficient. It fixes the given example for me. @@ -288,6 +288,10 @@ int xt_data_to_user(void __user *dst, const void *src, usersize = usersize ? : size; if (copy_to_user(dst, src, usersize)) return -EFAULT; + size = XT_ALIGN(size); if (usersize != size && clear_user(dst + usersize, size - usersize)) return -EFAULT; -- 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