This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nf_tables: fix null deref due to zeroed list head
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-nf_tables-fix-null-deref-due-to-zeroed-list-head.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 580077855a40741cf511766129702d97ff02f4d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 18:34:02 +0200
Subject: netfilter: nf_tables: fix null deref due to zeroed list head
From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 580077855a40741cf511766129702d97ff02f4d9 upstream.
In nf_tables_updtable, if nf_tables_table_enable returns an error,
nft_trans_destroy is called to free the transaction object.
nft_trans_destroy() calls list_del(), but the transaction was never
placed on a list -- the list head is all zeroes, this results in
a null dereference:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in nft_trans_destroy+0x26/0x59
Call Trace:
nft_trans_destroy+0x26/0x59
nf_tables_newtable+0x4bc/0x9bc
[..]
Its sane to assume that nft_trans_destroy() can be called
on the transaction object returned by nft_trans_alloc(), so
make sure the list head is initialised.
Fixes: 55dd6f93076b ("netfilter: nf_tables: use new transaction infrastructure to handle table")
Reported-by: mingi cho <mgcho.minic@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ static struct nft_trans *nft_trans_alloc
if (trans == NULL)
return NULL;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&trans->list);
trans->msg_type = msg_type;
trans->ctx = *ctx;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fw@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/netfilter-nf_tables-fix-null-deref-due-to-zeroed-list-head.patch
queue-4.9/netfilter-nf_queue-do-not-allow-packet-truncation-be.patch
