This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nf_tables: fix potential NULL-ptr deref in nf_tables_dump_obj_done()
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: netfilter-nf_tables-fix-potential-null-ptr-deref-in-nf_tables_dump_obj_done.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018
From: Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 11:34:54 +0800 Subject: netfilter: nf_tables: fix potential NULL-ptr deref in nf_tables_dump_obj_done()
From: Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 8bea728dce8972e534e6b99fd550f7b5cc3864e8 ]
If there is no NFTA_OBJ_TABLE and NFTA_OBJ_TYPE, the c.data will be NULL in nf_tables_getobj(). So before free filter->table in nf_tables_dump_obj_done(), we need to check if filter is NULL first.
Fixes: e46abbcc05aa ("netfilter: nf_tables: Allow table names of up to 255 chars") Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com Acked-by: Phil Sutter phil@nwl.cc Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -4596,8 +4596,10 @@ static int nf_tables_dump_obj_done(struc { struct nft_obj_filter *filter = cb->data;
- kfree(filter->table); - kfree(filter); + if (filter) { + kfree(filter->table); + kfree(filter); + }
return 0; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from liuhangbin@gmail.com are
queue-4.14/netfilter-nf_tables-fix-potential-null-ptr-deref-in-nf_tables_dump_obj_done.patch