This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/sched: act_ipt: zero skb->cb before calling target
to the 6.4-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:
net-sched-act_ipt-zero-skb-cb-before-calling-target.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 98a58b19aed0dd13d79a0c5abff50ffdb962fea5
Author: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 27 14:38:13 2023 +0200
net/sched: act_ipt: zero skb->cb before calling target
[ Upstream commit 93d75d475c5dc3404292976147d063ee4d808592 ]
xtables relies on skb being owned by ip stack, i.e. with ipv4
check in place skb->cb is supposed to be IPCB.
I don't see an immediate problem (REJECT target cannot be used anymore
now that PRE/POSTROUTING hook validation has been fixed), but better be
safe than sorry.
A much better patch would be to either mark act_ipt as
"depends on BROKEN" or remove it altogether. I plan to do this
for -next in the near future.
This tc extension is broken in the sense that tc lacks an
equivalent of NF_STOLEN verdict.
With NF_STOLEN, target function takes complete ownership of skb, caller
cannot dereference it anymore.
ACT_STOLEN cannot be used for this: it has a different meaning, caller
is allowed to dereference the skb.
At this time NF_STOLEN won't be returned by any targets as far as I can
see, but this may change in the future.
It might be possible to work around this via list of allowed
target extensions known to only return DROP or ACCEPT verdicts, but this
is error prone/fragile.
Existing selftest only validates xt_LOG and act_ipt is restricted
to ipv4 so I don't think this action is used widely.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/sched/act_ipt.c b/net/sched/act_ipt.c
index a6b522b512dc3..598d6e299152a 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ipt.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ipt.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/tc_act/tc_ipt.h>
#include <net/tc_act/tc_ipt.h>
#include <net/tc_wrapper.h>
+#include <net/ip.h>
#include <linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h>
@@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ TC_INDIRECT_SCOPE int tcf_ipt_act(struct sk_buff *skb,
const struct tc_action *a,
struct tcf_result *res)
{
+ char saved_cb[sizeof_field(struct sk_buff, cb)];
int ret = 0, result = 0;
struct tcf_ipt *ipt = to_ipt(a);
struct xt_action_param par;
@@ -280,6 +282,8 @@ TC_INDIRECT_SCOPE int tcf_ipt_act(struct sk_buff *skb,
state.out = skb->dev;
}
+ memcpy(saved_cb, skb->cb, sizeof(saved_cb));
+
spin_lock(&ipt->tcf_lock);
tcf_lastuse_update(&ipt->tcf_tm);
@@ -292,6 +296,9 @@ TC_INDIRECT_SCOPE int tcf_ipt_act(struct sk_buff *skb,
par.state = &state;
par.target = ipt->tcfi_t->u.kernel.target;
par.targinfo = ipt->tcfi_t->data;
+
+ memset(IPCB(skb), 0, sizeof(struct inet_skb_parm));
+
ret = par.target->target(skb, &par);
switch (ret) {
@@ -312,6 +319,9 @@ TC_INDIRECT_SCOPE int tcf_ipt_act(struct sk_buff *skb,
break;
}
spin_unlock(&ipt->tcf_lock);
+
+ memcpy(skb->cb, saved_cb, sizeof(skb->cb));
+
return result;
}
