Its possible to create tables in a family that isn't supported/known. Then, when adding a base chain, the table pointer can be NULL. This gets us a NULL ptr dereference in nf_tables_addchain(). Fixes: baae3e62f31618 ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix chain type module reference handling") Reported-by: syzbot+156a04714799b1d480bc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 65f51a2e9c2a..e8976128cdb1 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -953,6 +953,9 @@ static int nf_tables_newtable(struct net *net, struct sock *nlsk, struct nft_ctx ctx; int err; + if (family >= NFPROTO_NUMPROTO) + return -EAFNOSUPPORT; + lockdep_assert_held(&net->nft.commit_mutex); attr = nla[NFTA_TABLE_NAME]; table = nft_table_lookup(net, attr, family, genmask); @@ -1765,6 +1768,9 @@ static int nft_chain_parse_hook(struct net *net, ha[NFTA_HOOK_PRIORITY] == NULL) return -EINVAL; + if (family >= NFPROTO_NUMPROTO) + return -EAFNOSUPPORT; + hook->num = ntohl(nla_get_be32(ha[NFTA_HOOK_HOOKNUM])); hook->priority = ntohl(nla_get_be32(ha[NFTA_HOOK_PRIORITY])); @@ -1774,6 +1780,8 @@ static int nft_chain_parse_hook(struct net *net, family, autoload); if (IS_ERR(type)) return PTR_ERR(type); + } else if (!type) { + return -EOPNOTSUPP; } if (hook->num > NF_MAX_HOOKS || !(type->hook_mask & (1 << hook->num))) return -EOPNOTSUPP; -- 2.24.1