This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_ct_helper: permit cthelpers with different names via nfnetlink 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_ct_helper-permit-cthelpers-with-different-names-via-nfnetlink.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 foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018 From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 19:27:42 +0800 Subject: netfilter: nf_ct_helper: permit cthelpers with different names via nfnetlink From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 66e5a6b18bd09d0431e97cd3c162e76c5c2aebba ] cthelpers added via nfnetlink may have the same tuple, i.e. except for the l3proto and l4proto, other fields are all zero. So even with the different names, we will also fail to add them: # nfct helper add ssdp inet udp # nfct helper add tftp inet udp nfct v1.4.3: netlink error: File exists So in order to avoid unpredictable behaviour, we should: 1. cthelpers can be selected by nft ct helper obj or xt_CT target, so report error if duplicated { name, l3proto, l4proto } tuple exist. 2. cthelpers can be selected by nf_ct_tuple_src_mask_cmp when nf_ct_auto_assign_helper is enabled, so also report error if duplicated { l3proto, l4proto, src-port } tuple exist. Also note, if the cthelper is added from userspace, then the src-port will always be zero, it's invalid for nf_ct_auto_assign_helper, so there's no need to check the second point listed above. Fixes: 893e093c786c ("netfilter: nf_ct_helper: bail out on duplicated helpers") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c @@ -379,17 +379,33 @@ int nf_conntrack_helper_register(struct struct nf_conntrack_tuple_mask mask = { .src.u.all = htons(0xFFFF) }; unsigned int h = helper_hash(&me->tuple); struct nf_conntrack_helper *cur; - int ret = 0; + int ret = 0, i; BUG_ON(me->expect_policy == NULL); BUG_ON(me->expect_class_max >= NF_CT_MAX_EXPECT_CLASSES); BUG_ON(strlen(me->name) > NF_CT_HELPER_NAME_LEN - 1); mutex_lock(&nf_ct_helper_mutex); - hlist_for_each_entry(cur, &nf_ct_helper_hash[h], hnode) { - if (nf_ct_tuple_src_mask_cmp(&cur->tuple, &me->tuple, &mask)) { - ret = -EEXIST; - goto out; + for (i = 0; i < nf_ct_helper_hsize; i++) { + hlist_for_each_entry(cur, &nf_ct_helper_hash[i], hnode) { + if (!strcmp(cur->name, me->name) && + (cur->tuple.src.l3num == NFPROTO_UNSPEC || + cur->tuple.src.l3num == me->tuple.src.l3num) && + cur->tuple.dst.protonum == me->tuple.dst.protonum) { + ret = -EEXIST; + goto out; + } + } + } + + /* avoid unpredictable behaviour for auto_assign_helper */ + if (!(me->flags & NF_CT_HELPER_F_USERSPACE)) { + hlist_for_each_entry(cur, &nf_ct_helper_hash[h], hnode) { + if (nf_ct_tuple_src_mask_cmp(&cur->tuple, &me->tuple, + &mask)) { + ret = -EEXIST; + goto out; + } } } hlist_add_head_rcu(&me->hnode, &nf_ct_helper_hash[h]); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/netfilter-nf_ct_helper-permit-cthelpers-with-different-names-via-nfnetlink.patch queue-4.9/netfilter-xt_ct-fix-refcnt-leak-on-error-path.patch queue-4.9/netfilter-nft_dynset-continue-to-next-expr-if-_op_add-succeeded.patch