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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2026-03-31 16:41:25 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2026-04-01 11:55:29 +0200
commit3d5d488f11776738deab9da336038add95d342d1 (patch)
treec842f2005105462b2e6b16162fbec1bb93d72ada
parent9862ef9ab0a116c6dca98842aab7de13a252ae02 (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.c23
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];