From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, stable <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: sched: em_text: require NUL-terminated algo name
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:10:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026041150-task-path-81dd@gregkh> (raw)
em_text_change() copies the user-supplied tcf_em_text struct from
netlink and passes conf->algo straight to textsearch_prepare(), which
forwards it to lookup_ts_algo() (strcmp) and request_module() (vsnprintf
%s). But the algo[16] field is never validated to be NULL-terminated,
so a fully populated array reads past it into the adjacent
from_offset/to_offset/pattern_len fields and the trailing pattern bytes
during the string operations.
This type of pattern is properly checked in the string_mt_check() for
xt_string netfilter matching function, but for some reason was not added
here, so fix this up by doing the same exact thing.
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Fixes: d675c989ed2d ("[PKT_SCHED]: Packet classification based on textsearch (ematch)")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: gregkh_clanker_t1000
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
Note, my tools flagged this, so I fixed this up the same way that
string_mt_check() did, but if there is some other way that this should
be resolved, or I got this totally wrong that this isn't an issue,
please let me know, thanks!
net/sched/em_text.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/sched/em_text.c b/net/sched/em_text.c
index 343f1aebeec2..24a8aa21971d 100644
--- a/net/sched/em_text.c
+++ b/net/sched/em_text.c
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ static int em_text_change(struct net *net, void *data, int len,
if (len < sizeof(*conf) || len < (sizeof(*conf) + conf->pattern_len))
return -EINVAL;
+ if (conf->algo[sizeof(conf->algo) - 1] != '\0')
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (conf->from_layer > conf->to_layer)
return -EINVAL;
--
2.53.0
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