Disallow updating the ownership bit on an existing table: Do not allow to grab ownership on an existing table. Do not allow to drop ownership on an existing table. Fixes: 6001a930ce03 ("netfilter: nftables: introduce table ownership") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Dropping ownership might make sense for a process stopping while leaving the ruleset in place. But I prefer to disallow this explicitly until there is a use-case. net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index d3a03c5f8387..1f6134198777 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -914,6 +914,12 @@ static int nf_tables_updtable(struct nft_ctx *ctx) if (flags == ctx->table->flags) return 0; + if ((nft_table_has_owner(ctx->table) && + !(flags && NFT_TABLE_F_OWNER)) || + (!nft_table_has_owner(ctx->table) && + flags & NFT_TABLE_F_OWNER)) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + trans = nft_trans_alloc(ctx, NFT_MSG_NEWTABLE, sizeof(struct nft_trans_table)); if (trans == NULL) -- 2.20.1