From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: clamp TCP window scale to TCP_MAX_WSCALE via ctnetlink
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:30:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324163033.310087-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)
The normal TCP option parsing path clamps td_scale to TCP_MAX_WSCALE
(14), but the ctnetlink path (nlattr_to_tcp) accepts any u8 value
(0-255). This td_scale is then used as a shift count for u32 values,
causing undefined behavior when >= 32.
Use NLA_POLICY_MAX in the netlink policy to reject values exceeding
TCP_MAX_WSCALE at parse time, consistent with how commit f900e1d77ee0
("netfilter: conntrack: add missing validation of SCTP netlink
attributes") addressed similar missing validations.
Fixes: c8e2078cfe41 ("[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: add support for internal tcp connection tracking flags handling")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
index 0c1d086e96cb..7d364337d71e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
@@ -1386,8 +1386,8 @@ static int tcp_to_nlattr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *nla,
static const struct nla_policy tcp_nla_policy[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_MAX+1] = {
[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
- [CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
- [CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_REPLY] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+ [CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL] = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, TCP_MAX_WSCALE),
+ [CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_REPLY] = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, TCP_MAX_WSCALE),
[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_FLAGS_ORIGINAL] = { .len = sizeof(struct nf_ct_tcp_flags) },
[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_FLAGS_REPLY] = { .len = sizeof(struct nf_ct_tcp_flags) },
};
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-24 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-24 16:30 David Carlier [this message]
2026-03-24 16:37 ` [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: clamp TCP window scale to TCP_MAX_WSCALE via ctnetlink Florian Westphal
2026-03-24 16:43 ` David CARLIER
2026-03-24 16:50 ` Florian Westphal
2026-03-24 17:12 ` [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks David Carlier
2026-03-26 15:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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