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From: Fang Xieyan <fangxy@xiaopeng.com>
To: pablo@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de
Cc: phil@nwl.cc, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@kernel.org,
	kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Weibin Liu <liuwb@xiaopeng.com>
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_policy: add NULL check for skb_dst() in output policy match
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:53:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261026125313.14810-1-fangxy@xiaopeng.com> (raw)

match_policy_out() accesses dst->xfrm without checking whether
skb_dst() returned NULL. If no dst entry is attached to the skb,
this dereference is invalid.

Check dst before accessing dst->xfrm and return -1 when no dst entry
is present. This follows the existing handling of a dst entry
without XFRM state and preserves the XT_POLICY_MATCH_NONE semantics
in policy_mt().

Code review identified the unchecked dereference. No reachable path
that passes an skb with a NULL dst to match_policy_out() has been
identified in current kernels.
Reviewed-by: Weibin Liu <liuwb@xiaopeng.com>
Signed-off-by: Fang Xieyan <fangxy@xiaopeng.com>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_policy.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_policy.c b/net/netfilter/xt_policy.c
index ff54e3a8581e..6bbaf92f0cfc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_policy.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_policy.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ match_policy_out(const struct sk_buff *skb, const struct xt_policy_info *info,
 	int strict = info->flags & XT_POLICY_MATCH_STRICT;
 	int i, pos;
 
-	if (dst->xfrm == NULL)
+	if (!dst || dst->xfrm == NULL)
 		return -1;
 
 	for (i = 0; dst && dst->xfrm;
-- 
2.50.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-26 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-26 12:53 Fang Xieyan [this message]
2026-10-26 13:14 ` [PATCH] netfilter: xt_policy: add NULL check for skb_dst() in output policy match Florian Westphal
2026-10-26 15:34 ` Fang Xieyan
2026-10-29 18:55 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-29 19:44   ` Florian Westphal
2026-10-29 22:20     ` Florian Westphal

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