From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@xxxxxxxxxx>
If the object type doesn't implement an update operation and the user tries to
update it will silently ignore the update operation.
Fixes: aa4095a156b5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix possible null-pointer dereference in object update")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index d481f9baca2f..aa26841ad9a1 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -5143,9 +5143,6 @@ static int nf_tables_updobj(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
struct nft_trans *trans;
int err;
- if (!obj->ops->update)
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
trans = nft_trans_alloc(ctx, NFT_MSG_NEWOBJ,
sizeof(struct nft_trans_obj));
if (!trans)
@@ -6499,7 +6496,8 @@ static void nft_obj_commit_update(struct nft_trans *trans)
obj = nft_trans_obj(trans);
newobj = nft_trans_obj_newobj(trans);
- obj->ops->update(obj, newobj);
+ if (obj->ops->update)
+ obj->ops->update(obj, newobj);
kfree(newobj);
}
--
2.11.0
