Updates on existing implicit chain make no sense, disallow this. Fixes: d0e2c7de92c7 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add NFT_CHAIN_BINDING") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 62cfb0e31c40..dff2b5851bbb 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -2574,6 +2574,9 @@ static int nf_tables_newchain(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nfnl_info *info, nft_ctx_init(&ctx, net, skb, info->nlh, family, table, chain, nla); if (chain != NULL) { + if (chain->flags & NFT_CHAIN_BINDING) + return -EINVAL; + if (info->nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_EXCL) { NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(extack, attr); return -EEXIST; -- 2.30.2