From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: [PATCH net 2/2] netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce NFTA_DEVICE_PREFIX
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 20:58:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250902185855.25919-3-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250902185855.25919-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
This new attribute is supposed to be used instead of NFTA_DEVICE_NAME
for simple wildcard interface specs. It holds a NUL-terminated string
representing an interface name prefix to match on.
While kernel code to distinguish full names from prefixes in
NFTA_DEVICE_NAME is simpler than this solution, reusing the existing
attribute with different semantics leads to confusion between different
versions of kernel and user space though:
* With old kernels, wildcards submitted by user space are accepted yet
silently treated as regular names.
* With old user space, wildcards submitted by kernel may cause crashes
since libnftnl expects NUL-termination when there is none.
Using a distinct attribute type sanitizes these situations as the
receiving part detects and rejects the unexpected attribute nested in
*_HOOK_DEVS attributes.
Fixes: 6d07a289504a ("netfilter: nf_tables: Support wildcard netdev hook specs")
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 2 ++
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h
index 2beb30be2c5f..8e0eb832bc01 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h
@@ -1784,10 +1784,12 @@ enum nft_synproxy_attributes {
* enum nft_device_attributes - nf_tables device netlink attributes
*
* @NFTA_DEVICE_NAME: name of this device (NLA_STRING)
+ * @NFTA_DEVICE_PREFIX: device name prefix, a simple wildcard (NLA_STRING)
*/
enum nft_devices_attributes {
NFTA_DEVICE_UNSPEC,
NFTA_DEVICE_NAME,
+ NFTA_DEVICE_PREFIX,
__NFTA_DEVICE_MAX
};
#define NFTA_DEVICE_MAX (__NFTA_DEVICE_MAX - 1)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 58c5425d61c2..c1082de09656 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -1959,6 +1959,18 @@ static int nft_dump_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nft_stats __percpu *stats)
return -ENOSPC;
}
+static bool hook_is_prefix(struct nft_hook *hook)
+{
+ return strlen(hook->ifname) >= hook->ifnamelen;
+}
+
+static int nft_nla_put_hook_dev(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nft_hook *hook)
+{
+ int attr = hook_is_prefix(hook) ? NFTA_DEVICE_PREFIX : NFTA_DEVICE_NAME;
+
+ return nla_put_string(skb, attr, hook->ifname);
+}
+
static int nft_dump_basechain_hook(struct sk_buff *skb,
const struct net *net, int family,
const struct nft_base_chain *basechain,
@@ -1990,16 +2002,15 @@ static int nft_dump_basechain_hook(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (!first)
first = hook;
- if (nla_put(skb, NFTA_DEVICE_NAME,
- hook->ifnamelen, hook->ifname))
+ if (nft_nla_put_hook_dev(skb, hook))
goto nla_put_failure;
n++;
}
nla_nest_end(skb, nest_devs);
if (n == 1 &&
- nla_put(skb, NFTA_HOOK_DEV,
- first->ifnamelen, first->ifname))
+ !hook_is_prefix(first) &&
+ nla_put_string(skb, NFTA_HOOK_DEV, first->ifname))
goto nla_put_failure;
}
nla_nest_end(skb, nest);
@@ -2310,7 +2321,8 @@ void nf_tables_chain_destroy(struct nft_chain *chain)
}
static struct nft_hook *nft_netdev_hook_alloc(struct net *net,
- const struct nlattr *attr)
+ const struct nlattr *attr,
+ bool prefix)
{
struct nf_hook_ops *ops;
struct net_device *dev;
@@ -2327,7 +2339,8 @@ static struct nft_hook *nft_netdev_hook_alloc(struct net *net,
if (err < 0)
goto err_hook_free;
- hook->ifnamelen = nla_len(attr);
+ /* include the terminating NUL-char when comparing non-prefixes */
+ hook->ifnamelen = strlen(hook->ifname) + !prefix;
/* nf_tables_netdev_event() is called under rtnl_mutex, this is
* indirectly serializing all the other holders of the commit_mutex with
@@ -2374,14 +2387,22 @@ static int nf_tables_parse_netdev_hooks(struct net *net,
struct nft_hook *hook, *next;
const struct nlattr *tmp;
int rem, n = 0, err;
+ bool prefix;
nla_for_each_nested(tmp, attr, rem) {
- if (nla_type(tmp) != NFTA_DEVICE_NAME) {
+ switch (nla_type(tmp)) {
+ case NFTA_DEVICE_NAME:
+ prefix = false;
+ break;
+ case NFTA_DEVICE_PREFIX:
+ prefix = true;
+ break;
+ default:
err = -EINVAL;
goto err_hook;
}
- hook = nft_netdev_hook_alloc(net, tmp);
+ hook = nft_netdev_hook_alloc(net, tmp, prefix);
if (IS_ERR(hook)) {
NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(extack, tmp);
err = PTR_ERR(hook);
@@ -2427,7 +2448,7 @@ static int nft_chain_parse_netdev(struct net *net, struct nlattr *tb[],
int err;
if (tb[NFTA_HOOK_DEV]) {
- hook = nft_netdev_hook_alloc(net, tb[NFTA_HOOK_DEV]);
+ hook = nft_netdev_hook_alloc(net, tb[NFTA_HOOK_DEV], false);
if (IS_ERR(hook)) {
NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(extack, tb[NFTA_HOOK_DEV]);
return PTR_ERR(hook);
@@ -9458,8 +9479,7 @@ static int nf_tables_fill_flowtable_info(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net *net,
list_for_each_entry_rcu(hook, hook_list, list,
lockdep_commit_lock_is_held(net)) {
- if (nla_put(skb, NFTA_DEVICE_NAME,
- hook->ifnamelen, hook->ifname))
+ if (nft_nla_put_hook_dev(skb, hook))
goto nla_put_failure;
}
nla_nest_end(skb, nest_devs);
--
2.49.1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-02 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-02 18:58 [PATCH net 0/2] netfilter: updates for net Florian Westphal
2025-09-02 18:58 ` [PATCH net 1/2] selftests: netfilter: fix udpclash tool hang Florian Westphal
2025-09-03 22:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-03 22:52 ` Florian Westphal
2025-09-03 23:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-02 18:58 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
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