From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: coreteam@netfilter.org, jeremy@azazel.net, phil@nwl.cc,
fw@strlen.de, pablo@netfilter.org,
Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH nf v4] netfilter: nft_bitwise: fix dst corruption in same register shifts
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:21:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427092117.4160-2-fmancera@suse.de> (raw)
For lshift and rshift, the shift operations are performed in a loop over
32-bit words. The loop calculates the shifted value and write it to dst,
and then immediately reads from src to calculate the carry for the next
iteration. Because src and dst could point to the same memory location,
the carry is incorrectly calculated using the newly modified dst value
instead of the original src value.
Adding a temporary local variable to cache the original value before
writing to dst and using it for the carry calculation solves the
problem. In addition, partial overlap is rejected from control plane for
all kind of operations. This was tested with the following bytecode:
table test_table ip flags 0 use 1 handle 1
ip test_table test_chain use 3 type filter hook input prio 0 policy accept packets 0 bytes 0 flags 1
ip test_table test_chain 2
[ immediate reg 1 0x44332211 0x88776655 ]
[ bitwise reg 1 = ( reg 1 << 0x08000000 ) ]
[ cmp eq reg 1 0x66443322 0x00887766 ]
[ counter pkts 0 bytes 0 ]
ip test_table test_chain 4 3
[ immediate reg 1 0x44332211 0x88776655 ]
[ bitwise reg 1 = ( reg 1 << 0x08000000 ) ]
[ cmp eq reg 1 0x55443322 0x00887766 ]
[ counter pkts 21794 bytes 1917798 ]
Fixes: 567d746b55bc ("netfilter: bitwise: add support for shifts.")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
---
v2: handled partially register overlap
v3: reject partially overlap from control plane
v4: applied the partial overlap check to all operations
---
net/netfilter/nft_bitwise.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_bitwise.c b/net/netfilter/nft_bitwise.c
index 13808e9cd999..76e7ae96429d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_bitwise.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_bitwise.c
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ static void nft_bitwise_eval_lshift(u32 *dst, const u32 *src,
u32 carry = 0;
for (i = DIV_ROUND_UP(priv->len, sizeof(u32)); i > 0; i--) {
- dst[i - 1] = (src[i - 1] << shift) | carry;
- carry = src[i - 1] >> (BITS_PER_TYPE(u32) - shift);
+ u32 tmp_src = src[i - 1];
+
+ dst[i - 1] = (tmp_src << shift) | carry;
+ carry = tmp_src >> (BITS_PER_TYPE(u32) - shift);
}
}
@@ -56,8 +58,10 @@ static void nft_bitwise_eval_rshift(u32 *dst, const u32 *src,
u32 carry = 0;
for (i = 0; i < DIV_ROUND_UP(priv->len, sizeof(u32)); i++) {
- dst[i] = carry | (src[i] >> shift);
- carry = src[i] << (BITS_PER_TYPE(u32) - shift);
+ u32 tmp_src = src[i];
+
+ dst[i] = carry | (tmp_src >> shift);
+ carry = tmp_src << (BITS_PER_TYPE(u32) - shift);
}
}
@@ -244,6 +248,7 @@ static int nft_bitwise_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
const struct nlattr * const tb[])
{
struct nft_bitwise *priv = nft_expr_priv(expr);
+ unsigned int n;
u32 len;
int err;
@@ -264,6 +269,12 @@ static int nft_bitwise_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
if (err < 0)
return err;
+ n = DIV_ROUND_UP(priv->len, sizeof(u32));
+ if (priv->sreg != priv->dreg &&
+ priv->dreg < priv->sreg + n &&
+ priv->sreg < priv->dreg + n)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (tb[NFTA_BITWISE_OP]) {
priv->op = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFTA_BITWISE_OP]));
switch (priv->op) {
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-27 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-27 9:21 Fernando Fernandez Mancera [this message]
2026-04-30 6:11 ` [PATCH nf v4] netfilter: nft_bitwise: fix dst corruption in same register shifts Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-04-30 6:26 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-04-30 6:32 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-04-30 6:47 ` Florian Westphal
2026-04-30 11:46 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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