This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nf_tables: fix NULL pointer dereference in nft_inner_init() to the 6.5-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: nf_tables-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-nft_inner_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xingyuan Mo <hdthky0@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 18:36:14 +0800 Subject: nf_tables: fix NULL pointer dereference in nft_inner_init() From: Xingyuan Mo <hdthky0@xxxxxxxxx> commit 52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80 upstream. We should check whether the NFTA_INNER_NUM netlink attribute is present before accessing it, otherwise a null pointer deference error will occur. Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x4f/0x90 print_report+0x3f0/0x620 kasan_report+0xcd/0x110 __asan_load4+0x84/0xa0 nft_inner_init+0x128/0x2e0 nf_tables_newrule+0x813/0x1230 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xec3/0x1170 nfnetlink_rcv+0x1e4/0x220 netlink_unicast+0x34e/0x4b0 netlink_sendmsg+0x45c/0x7e0 __sys_sendto+0x355/0x370 __x64_sys_sendto+0x84/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 Fixes: 3a07327d10a0 ("netfilter: nft_inner: support for inner tunnel header matching") Signed-off-by: Xingyuan Mo <hdthky0@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nft_inner.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_inner.c b/net/netfilter/nft_inner.c index 28e2873ba24e..928312d01eb1 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nft_inner.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_inner.c @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static int nft_inner_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, int err; if (!tb[NFTA_INNER_FLAGS] || + !tb[NFTA_INNER_NUM] || !tb[NFTA_INNER_HDRSIZE] || !tb[NFTA_INNER_TYPE] || !tb[NFTA_INNER_EXPR]) -- 2.42.0 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hdthky0@xxxxxxxxx are queue-6.5/nf_tables-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-nft_expr_inner_parse.patch queue-6.5/nf_tables-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-nft_inner_init.patch