This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix runtime expectation policy updates
to the 3.18-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-nfnl_cthelper-fix-runtime-expectation-policy-updates.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Thu Dec 21 10:55:04 CET 2017
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:32:37 +0100 Subject: netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix runtime expectation policy updates
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org
[ Upstream commit 2c422257550f123049552b39f7af6e3428a60f43 ]
We only allow runtime updates of expectation policies for timeout and maximum number of expectations, otherwise reject the update.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org Acked-by: Liping Zhang zlpnobody@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c @@ -256,6 +256,89 @@ err: }
static int +nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_one(const struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy *policy, + struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy *new_policy, + const struct nlattr *attr) +{ + struct nlattr *tb[NFCTH_POLICY_MAX + 1]; + int err; + + err = nla_parse_nested(tb, NFCTH_POLICY_MAX, attr, + nfnl_cthelper_expect_pol); + if (err < 0) + return err; + + if (!tb[NFCTH_POLICY_NAME] || + !tb[NFCTH_POLICY_EXPECT_MAX] || + !tb[NFCTH_POLICY_EXPECT_TIMEOUT]) + return -EINVAL; + + if (nla_strcmp(tb[NFCTH_POLICY_NAME], policy->name)) + return -EBUSY; + + new_policy->max_expected = + ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFCTH_POLICY_EXPECT_MAX])); + new_policy->timeout = + ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFCTH_POLICY_EXPECT_TIMEOUT])); + + return 0; +} + +static int nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_all(struct nlattr *tb[], + struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper) +{ + struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy new_policy[helper->expect_class_max + 1]; + struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy *policy; + int i, err; + + /* Check first that all policy attributes are well-formed, so we don't + * leave things in inconsistent state on errors. + */ + for (i = 0; i < helper->expect_class_max + 1; i++) { + + if (!tb[NFCTH_POLICY_SET + i]) + return -EINVAL; + + err = nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_one(&helper->expect_policy[i], + &new_policy[i], + tb[NFCTH_POLICY_SET + i]); + if (err < 0) + return err; + } + /* Now we can safely update them. */ + for (i = 0; i < helper->expect_class_max + 1; i++) { + policy = (struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy *) + &helper->expect_policy[i]; + policy->max_expected = new_policy->max_expected; + policy->timeout = new_policy->timeout; + } + + return 0; +} + +static int nfnl_cthelper_update_policy(struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper, + const struct nlattr *attr) +{ + struct nlattr *tb[NFCTH_POLICY_SET_MAX + 1]; + unsigned int class_max; + int err; + + err = nla_parse_nested(tb, NFCTH_POLICY_SET_MAX, attr, + nfnl_cthelper_expect_policy_set); + if (err < 0) + return err; + + if (!tb[NFCTH_POLICY_SET_NUM]) + return -EINVAL; + + class_max = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFCTH_POLICY_SET_NUM])); + if (helper->expect_class_max + 1 != class_max) + return -EBUSY; + + return nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_all(tb, helper); +} + +static int nfnl_cthelper_update(const struct nlattr * const tb[], struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper) { @@ -265,8 +348,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_update(const struct nlattr return -EBUSY;
if (tb[NFCTH_POLICY]) { - ret = nfnl_cthelper_parse_expect_policy(helper, - tb[NFCTH_POLICY]); + ret = nfnl_cthelper_update_policy(helper, tb[NFCTH_POLICY]); if (ret < 0) return ret; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pablo@netfilter.org are
queue-3.18/netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-runtime-expectation-policy-updates.patch queue-3.18/netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-a-race-when-walk-the-nf_ct_helper_hash-table.patch queue-3.18/netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-memory-leak.patch queue-3.18/netfilter-nf_nat_snmp-fix-panic-when-snmp_trap_helper-fails-to-register.patch