This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_tables: reject destroy command to remove basechain hooks to the 6.6-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-destroy-command-to-remove.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5afd33a659a279c05b97c099a191773736212832 Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 21 01:27:50 2024 +0100 netfilter: nf_tables: reject destroy command to remove basechain hooks [ Upstream commit b32ca27fa238ff83427d23bef2a5b741e2a88a1e ] Report EOPNOTSUPP if NFT_MSG_DESTROYCHAIN is used to delete hooks in an existing netdev basechain, thus, only NFT_MSG_DELCHAIN is allowed. Fixes: 7d937b107108f ("netfilter: nf_tables: support for deleting devices in an existing netdev chain") 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 f10419ba6e0bd..0653f1e5e8929 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -2934,7 +2934,8 @@ static int nf_tables_delchain(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nfnl_info *info, nft_ctx_init(&ctx, net, skb, info->nlh, family, table, chain, nla); if (nla[NFTA_CHAIN_HOOK]) { - if (chain->flags & NFT_CHAIN_HW_OFFLOAD) + if (NFNL_MSG_TYPE(info->nlh->nlmsg_type) == NFT_MSG_DESTROYCHAIN || + chain->flags & NFT_CHAIN_HW_OFFLOAD) return -EOPNOTSUPP; if (nft_is_base_chain(chain)) {