[patch 06/20] nfnetlink_log: fix NULL pointer dereference

Greg KH
2007-03-10T06:25:18Z

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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Micha Mirosaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>

[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix NULL pointer dereference

Fix the nasty NULL dereference on multiple packets per netlink message.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
printing eip:
f8a4b3bf
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: nfnetlink_log ipt_ttl ipt_REDIRECT xt_tcpudp iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack
_ipv4 xt_state ipt_ipp2p xt_NFLOG xt_hashlimit ip6_tables iptable_filter xt_multiport xt_mark i
pt_set iptable_raw xt_MARK iptable_mangle ip_tables cls_fw cls_u32 sch_esfq sch_htb ip_set_ipma
p ip_set ipt_ULOG x_tables dm_snapshot dm_mirror loop e1000 parport_pc parport e100 floppy ide_
cd cdrom
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<f8a4b3bf>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.20 #5)
EIP is at __nfulnl_send+0x24/0x51 [nfnetlink_log]
eax: 00000000 ebx: f2b5cbc0 ecx: c03f5f54 edx: c03f4000
esi: f2b5cbc8 edi: c03f5f54 ebp: f8a4b3ec esp: c03f5f30
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c03f4000 task=c03bece0 task.ti=c03f4000)
Stack: f2b5cbc0 f8a4b401 00000100 c0444080 c012af49 00000000 f6f19100 f6f19000
c1707800 c03f5f54 c03f5f54 00000123 00000021 c03e8d08 c0426380 00000009
c0126932 00000000 00000046 c03e9980 c03e6000 0047b007 c01269bd 00000000
Call Trace:
[<f8a4b401>] nfulnl_timer+0x15/0x25 [nfnetlink_log]
[<c012af49>] run_timer_softirq+0x10a/0x164
[<c0126932>] __do_softirq+0x60/0xba
[<c01269bd>] do_softirq+0x31/0x35
[<c0104f6e>] do_IRQ+0x62/0x74
[<c01036cb>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28
[<c0101018>] default_idle+0x0/0x3f
[<c0101045>] default_idle+0x2d/0x3f
[<c01010fa>] cpu_idle+0xa0/0xb9
[<c03fb7f5>] start_kernel+0x1a8/0x1ac
[<c03fb293>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x181
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Code: 5e 5f 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 53 89 c3 8d 40 1c 83 7b 1c 00 74 05 e8 2c ee 6d c7 83 7b 14 00 75 04
31 c0 eb 34 83 7b 10 01 76 09 8b 43 18 <66> c7 40 04 03 00 8b 53 34 8b 43 14 b9 40 00 00 00 e8
08 9a 84
EIP: [<f8a4b3bf>] __nfulnl_send+0x24/0x51 [nfnetlink_log] SS:ESP 0068:c03f5f30
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
<0>Rebooting in 5 seconds..

Panic no more!

Signed-off-by: Micha Mirosaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ __build_packet_message(struct nfulnl_ins
}

nlh->nlmsg_len = inst->skb->tail - old_tail;
+ inst->lastnlh = nlh;
return 0;

nlmsg_failure:

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