If element timeout is unset and set provides no default timeout, the element expiration is silently ignored, reject this instead to let user know this is unsupported. Also prepare for supporting timeout that never expire, where zero timeout and expiration must be also rejected. Fixes: 8e1102d5a159 ("netfilter: nf_tables: support timeouts larger than 23 days") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: remove leftover sentence in patch description, as per Phil. 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 6de74dae50fc..1884125ebb28 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -6917,6 +6917,9 @@ static int nft_add_set_elem(struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_set *set, if (nla[NFTA_SET_ELEM_EXPIRATION] != NULL) { if (!(set->flags & NFT_SET_TIMEOUT)) return -EINVAL; + if (timeout == 0) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + err = nf_msecs_to_jiffies64(nla[NFTA_SET_ELEM_EXPIRATION], &expiration); if (err) -- 2.30.2