I believe that "hook->num" can be up to UINT_MAX. Shifting more than 31 bits would is undefined in C but in practice it would lead to shift wrapping. That would lead to an array overflow in nf_tables_addchain(): ops->hook = hook.type->hooks[ops->hooknum]; Fixes: fe19c04ca137 ("netfilter: nf_tables: remove nhooks field from struct nft_af_info") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: In my original fix I thought making shifts unsigned was defined in C but it's not. My original patch didn't fix or change runtime at all. Thanks to Florian Westphal for his help on this. net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index ef7772e976cc..1606eaa5ae0d 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@ static int nft_chain_parse_hook(struct net *net, if (IS_ERR(type)) return PTR_ERR(type); } - if (!(type->hook_mask & (1 << hook->num))) + if (hook->num > NF_MAX_HOOKS || !(type->hook_mask & (1 << hook->num))) return -EOPNOTSUPP; if (type->type == NFT_CHAIN_T_NAT && -- 2.17.1