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| author | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2026-03-31 16:41:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2026-04-01 11:55:29 +0200 |
| commit | 3d5d488f11776738deab9da336038add95d342d1 (patch) | |
| tree | c842f2005105462b2e6b16162fbec1bb93d72ada | |
| parent | 9862ef9ab0a116c6dca98842aab7de13a252ae02 (diff) | |
netfilter: x_tables: restrict xt_check_match/xt_check_target extensions for NFPROTO_ARP
Weiming Shi says:
xt_match and xt_target structs registered with NFPROTO_UNSPEC can be
loaded by any protocol family through nft_compat. When such a
match/target sets .hooks to restrict which hooks it may run on, the
bitmask uses NF_INET_* constants. This is only correct for families
whose hook layout matches NF_INET_*: IPv4, IPv6, INET, and bridge
all share the same five hooks (PRE_ROUTING ... POST_ROUTING).
ARP only has three hooks (IN=0, OUT=1, FORWARD=2) with different
semantics. Because NF_ARP_OUT == 1 == NF_INET_LOCAL_IN, the .hooks
validation silently passes for the wrong reasons, allowing matches to
run on ARP chains where the hook assumptions (e.g. state->in being
set on input hooks) do not hold. This leads to NULL pointer
dereferences; xt_devgroup is one concrete example:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000044: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000220-0x0000000000000227]
RIP: 0010:devgroup_mt+0xff/0x350
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nft_match_eval (net/netfilter/nft_compat.c:407)
nft_do_chain (net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:285)
nft_do_chain_arp (net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:61)
nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:623)
arp_xmit (net/ipv4/arp.c:666)
</TASK>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Fix it by restricting arptables to NFPROTO_ARP extensions only.
Note that arptables-legacy only supports:
- arpt_CLASSIFY
- arpt_mangle
- arpt_MARK
that provide explicit NFPROTO_ARP match/target declarations.
Fixes: 9291747f118d ("netfilter: xtables: add device group match")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index e594b3b7ad82..b39017c80548 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -501,6 +501,17 @@ int xt_check_match(struct xt_mtchk_param *par, par->match->table, par->table); return -EINVAL; } + + /* NFPROTO_UNSPEC implies NF_INET_* hooks which do not overlap with + * NF_ARP_IN,OUT,FORWARD, allow explicit extensions with NFPROTO_ARP + * support. + */ + if (par->family == NFPROTO_ARP && + par->match->family != NFPROTO_ARP) { + pr_info_ratelimited("%s_tables: %s match: not valid for this family\n", + xt_prefix[par->family], par->match->name); + return -EINVAL; + } if (par->match->hooks && (par->hook_mask & ~par->match->hooks) != 0) { char used[64], allow[64]; @@ -1016,6 +1027,18 @@ int xt_check_target(struct xt_tgchk_param *par, par->target->table, par->table); return -EINVAL; } + + /* NFPROTO_UNSPEC implies NF_INET_* hooks which do not overlap with + * NF_ARP_IN,OUT,FORWARD, allow explicit extensions with NFPROTO_ARP + * support. + */ + if (par->family == NFPROTO_ARP && + par->target->family != NFPROTO_ARP) { + pr_info_ratelimited("%s_tables: %s target: not valid for this family\n", + xt_prefix[par->family], par->target->name); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (par->target->hooks && (par->hook_mask & ~par->target->hooks) != 0) { char used[64], allow[64]; |
