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From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de, phil@nwl.cc,
	davem@davemloft.net, eric@inl.fr, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bestswngs@gmail.com,
	Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net] netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator
Date: Wed,  1 Apr 2026 12:57:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260401195735.564488-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)

When batching multiple NFLOG messages (inst->qlen > 1), __nfulnl_send()
appends an NLMSG_DONE terminator with sizeof(struct nfgenmsg) payload via
nlmsg_put(), but never initializes the nfgenmsg bytes. The nlmsg_put()
helper only zeroes alignment padding after the payload, not the payload
itself, so four bytes of stale kernel heap data are leaked to userspace
in the NLMSG_DONE message body.

Initialize the nfgenmsg struct after nlmsg_put(), consistent with how
__build_packet_message() populates nfgenmsg for regular NFULNL_MSG_PACKET
messages, to prevent leaking kernel heap data to userspace.

Fixes: 29c5d4afba51 ("[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix sending of multipart messages")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
index fcbe54940b2e..ad4eaf27590e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ static void
 __nfulnl_send(struct nfulnl_instance *inst)
 {
 	if (inst->qlen > 1) {
+		struct nfgenmsg *nfmsg;
 		struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_put(inst->skb, 0, 0,
 						 NLMSG_DONE,
 						 sizeof(struct nfgenmsg),
@@ -370,6 +371,10 @@ __nfulnl_send(struct nfulnl_instance *inst)
 			kfree_skb(inst->skb);
 			goto out;
 		}
+		nfmsg = nlmsg_data(nlh);
+		nfmsg->nfgen_family = AF_UNSPEC;
+		nfmsg->version = NFNETLINK_V0;
+		nfmsg->res_id = htons(inst->group_num);
 	}
 	nfnetlink_unicast(inst->skb, inst->net, inst->peer_portid);
 out:
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-01 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-01 19:57 Xiang Mei [this message]
2026-04-01 20:06 ` [PATCH net] netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator Xiang Mei
2026-04-01 20:39 ` Florian Westphal
2026-04-01 20:40   ` Xiang Mei
2026-04-01 21:23   ` Xiang Mei

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