This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_tables: reject unbound chain set before commit phase to the 5.15-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-reject-unbound-chain-set-before-.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c8edfc71464c7061415286e468b00d9266ea0b83 Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jun 16 15:21:39 2023 +0200 netfilter: nf_tables: reject unbound chain set before commit phase [ Upstream commit 62e1e94b246e685d89c3163aaef4b160e42ceb02 ] Use binding list to track set transaction and to check for unbound chains before entering the commit phase. Bail out if chain binding remain unused before entering the commit step. Fixes: d0e2c7de92c7 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add NFT_CHAIN_BINDING") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 010ef3bce9e5f..66328326ec05e 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -372,6 +372,11 @@ static void nft_trans_commit_list_add_tail(struct net *net, struct nft_trans *tr nft_set_is_anonymous(nft_trans_set(trans))) list_add_tail(&trans->binding_list, &nft_net->binding_list); break; + case NFT_MSG_NEWCHAIN: + if (!nft_trans_chain_update(trans) && + nft_chain_binding(nft_trans_chain(trans))) + list_add_tail(&trans->binding_list, &nft_net->binding_list); + break; } list_add_tail(&trans->list, &nft_net->commit_list); @@ -8908,6 +8913,14 @@ static int nf_tables_commit(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb) return -EINVAL; } break; + case NFT_MSG_NEWCHAIN: + if (!nft_trans_chain_update(trans) && + nft_chain_binding(nft_trans_chain(trans)) && + !nft_trans_chain_bound(trans)) { + pr_warn_once("nftables ruleset with unbound chain\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + break; } }