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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: zero at allocation time
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:13:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260625001356.16478-1-fw@strlen.de> (raw)

There are occasional LLM hints wrt. leaking uninitialized data to
userspace via ctnetlink.  Just zero at allocation time, expectations are
not frequently used these days.

Intentionally keeps _init as-is because we could theoretically support
re-init, so add the missing exp->dir there.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c  |  3 ++-
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 11 +----------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c
index 49e18eda037e..0b213ffc0378 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ struct nf_conntrack_expect *nf_ct_expect_alloc(struct nf_conn *me)
 {
 	struct nf_conntrack_expect *new;
 
-	new = kmem_cache_alloc(nf_ct_expect_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	new = kmem_cache_zalloc(nf_ct_expect_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!new)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ void nf_ct_expect_init(struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp, unsigned int class,
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_NAT)
 	memset(&exp->saved_addr, 0, sizeof(exp->saved_addr));
 	memset(&exp->saved_proto, 0, sizeof(exp->saved_proto));
+	exp->dir = 0;
 #endif
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_ct_expect_init);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 4e78d2482989..c6daeea35044 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -3565,8 +3565,6 @@ ctnetlink_alloc_expect(const struct nlattr * const cda[], struct nf_conn *ct,
 	if (cda[CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS]) {
 		exp->flags = ntohl(nla_get_be32(cda[CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS]));
 		exp->flags &= ~NF_CT_EXPECT_USERSPACE;
-	} else {
-		exp->flags = 0;
 	}
 	if (cda[CTA_EXPECT_FN]) {
 		const char *name = nla_data(cda[CTA_EXPECT_FN]);
@@ -3578,8 +3576,7 @@ ctnetlink_alloc_expect(const struct nlattr * const cda[], struct nf_conn *ct,
 			goto err_out;
 		}
 		exp->expectfn = expfn->expectfn;
-	} else
-		exp->expectfn = NULL;
+	}
 
 	exp->class = class;
 	exp->master = ct;
@@ -3598,12 +3595,6 @@ ctnetlink_alloc_expect(const struct nlattr * const cda[], struct nf_conn *ct,
 						 exp, nf_ct_l3num(ct));
 		if (err < 0)
 			goto err_out;
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_NAT)
-	} else {
-		memset(&exp->saved_addr, 0, sizeof(exp->saved_addr));
-		memset(&exp->saved_proto, 0, sizeof(exp->saved_proto));
-		exp->dir = 0;
-#endif
 	}
 	return exp;
 err_out:
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-25  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-25  0:13 Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-06-26 11:26 ` [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: zero at allocation time Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-06-26 11:58   ` Florian Westphal

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