Hi,
On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 14:51 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 01:30:37PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 12:13 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > > > syzbot reported a division by 0 bug in the netfilter nat code:
> > > > Adding the relevant check at parse time could break existing
> > > > setup, moreover we would need to read/write such values atomically
> > > > to avoid possible transient negative ranges at update time.
> > >
> > > I do not quite follow why it is so hard to add a check at parse time.
> > >
> > > Breaking buggy setups would not be a concern I think.
> >
> > It would be possible for xtables but afaics in nft_nat.c case
> > (nft_nat_eval) range.{min,max}_proto.all values are loaded from nft
> > registers at runtime.
>
> Then, restrict this from nft_nat.
If we move the check in the caller for nft, then need cope individually
with several control paths (nf_nat_setup_info() is used by ~10 modules
if I'm not wrong), I think keeping the check here would be better, do
you have strong opinions against that?
Thanks,
Paolo
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