From: Rahul Chandelkar <rc@rexion.ai>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Rahul Chandelkar <rc@rexion.ai>
Subject: [PATCH nf-next v5 2/4] netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: use nf_ct_helper_parse_port()
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:39:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ddfde1970b5daaba5c72a1a0f13455caa5e41f3.1790596690.git.rc@rexion.ai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1790596690.git.rc@rexion.ai>
parse_dcc() stores the result of simple_strtoul() directly into the u16
*port, so a DCC port above 65535 is silently truncated (e.g. 65537
becomes 1) and a conntrack expectation is created for a port that never
appeared in the DCC command.
Use nf_ct_helper_parse_port(), which parses the length-delimited buffer
without relying on NUL termination and rejects port 0, values above
65535 and digit runs longer than five characters.
Since parse_dcc() now fails for port 0, the dcc_port == 0 test in help()
can no longer be true; remove it. A DCC command with port 0 is now
dropped through the "unable to parse dcc command" debug path instead of
the ratelimited "Forged DCC command" warning; no expectation is created
in either case.
Build-tested with allmodconfig and allyesconfig (W=1) and sparse, and
cross-built for i386 and big-endian powerpc. It has not
been run-time tested with IRC traffic.
Fixes: 869f37d8e48f ("[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add IRC helper port")
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5-5 sparse
Signed-off-by: Rahul Chandelkar <rc@rexion.ai>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c
index 92360963757a..88c4530c4841 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c
@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ static int parse_dcc(char *data, const char *data_end, __be32 *ip,
data++;
}
- *port = simple_strtoul(data, &data, 10);
+ if (nf_ct_helper_parse_port(data, data_end - data, port, &data))
+ return -1;
+
*ad_end_p = data;
return 0;
@@ -206,9 +208,8 @@ static int help(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int protoff,
/* dcc_ip can be the internal OR external (NAT'ed) IP */
tuple = &ct->tuplehash[dir].tuple;
- if ((tuple->src.u3.ip != dcc_ip &&
- ct->tuplehash[!dir].tuple.dst.u3.ip != dcc_ip) ||
- dcc_port == 0) {
+ if (tuple->src.u3.ip != dcc_ip &&
+ ct->tuplehash[!dir].tuple.dst.u3.ip != dcc_ip) {
net_warn_ratelimited("Forged DCC command from %pI4: %pI4:%u\n",
&tuple->src.u3.ip,
&dcc_ip, dcc_port);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-28 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 16:28 [PATCH nf-next v5 0/4] netfilter: conntrack: shared port parser for helpers Rahul Chandelkar
2026-09-28 17:33 ` [PATCH nf-next v5 1/4] netfilter: conntrack: add shared uint and port parsers " Rahul Chandelkar
2026-09-28 18:39 ` Rahul Chandelkar [this message]
2026-09-28 19:44 ` [PATCH nf-next v5 3/4] netfilter: nf_conntrack_amanda: use nf_ct_helper_parse_port() Rahul Chandelkar
2026-09-28 20:49 ` [PATCH nf-next v5 4/4] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: use shared helper parsers Rahul Chandelkar
2026-09-28 20:56 ` [PATCH nf-next v5 0/4] netfilter: conntrack: shared port parser for helpers netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-09-30 9:57 ` Rahul Chandelkar
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