From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: David Baum <davidbaum461@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kadlec@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipset: harden payload calculation in call_ad()
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 12:04:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <add5lL88z9oJqTJY@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260313180132.75655-1-davidbaum461@gmail.com>
David Baum <davidbaum461@gmail.com> wrote:
> call_ad() computes the netlink error payload size with
> min(SIZE_MAX, sizeof(*errmsg) + nlmsg_len(nlh)), but min(SIZE_MAX, x)
> is always x, so the guard is a no-op.
>
> Replace it with an explicit negative-length check and
> check_add_overflow() so the addition is validated before being passed
> to nlmsg_new().
Jozsef, are you ok with this patch?
Full quote below.
> Signed-off-by: David Baum <davidbaum461@gmail.com>
> ---
> net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> index a2fe711cb5e3..11d3854d9b11 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
> #include <linux/ip.h>
> +#include <linux/overflow.h>
> #include <linux/skbuff.h>
> #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> #include <linux/rculist.h>
> @@ -1763,13 +1764,18 @@ call_ad(struct net *net, struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct nlmsghdr *rep, *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
> struct sk_buff *skb2;
> struct nlmsgerr *errmsg;
> - size_t payload = min(SIZE_MAX,
> - sizeof(*errmsg) + nlmsg_len(nlh));
> + int nlmsg_payload_len = nlmsg_len(nlh);
> + size_t payload;
> int min_len = nlmsg_total_size(sizeof(struct nfgenmsg));
> struct nlattr *cda[IPSET_ATTR_CMD_MAX + 1];
> struct nlattr *cmdattr;
> u32 *errline;
>
> + if (nlmsg_payload_len < 0 ||
> + check_add_overflow(sizeof(*errmsg),
> + (size_t)nlmsg_payload_len, &payload))
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> skb2 = nlmsg_new(payload, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!skb2)
> return -ENOMEM;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-09 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 18:01 [PATCH] netfilter: ipset: harden payload calculation in call_ad() David Baum
2026-04-09 10:04 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-04-09 10:21 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2026-04-10 1:05 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-04-10 1:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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