[PATCH v2] netfilter: Can't fail and free after table replacement

[PATCH v2] netfilter: Can't fail and free after table replacement

[Thomas Graf]

All xtables variants suffer from the defect that the copy_to_user()
to copy the counters to user memory may fail after the table has
already been exchanged and thus exposed. Return an error at this
point will result in freeing the already exposed table. Any
subsequent packet processing will result in a kernel panic.

We can't copy the counters before exposing the new tables as we
want provide the counter state after the old table has been
unhooked. Therefore convert this into a silent error.

Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
---
v2: added net_warn_ratelimited() to warn verbose about silent error return case

 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 5 ++---
 net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 6 ++++--
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c  | 6 ++++--
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 6 ++++--
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index 0e474b1..1059ed3 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -1044,10 +1044,9 @@ static int do_replace_finish(struct net *net, struct ebt_replace *repl,
 	if (repl->num_counters &&
 	   copy_to_user(repl->counters, counterstmp,
 	   repl->num_counters * sizeof(struct ebt_counter))) {
-		ret = -EFAULT;
+		/* Silent error, can't fail, new table is already in place */
+		net_warn_ratelimited("ebtables: counters copy to user failed while replacing table\n");
 	}
-	else
-		ret = 0;
 
 	/* decrease module count and free resources */
 	EBT_ENTRY_ITERATE(table->entries, table->entries_size,
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
index 59da7cd..f95b6f9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
@@ -1044,8 +1044,10 @@ static int __do_replace(struct net *net, const char *name,
 
 	xt_free_table_info(oldinfo);
 	if (copy_to_user(counters_ptr, counters,
-			 sizeof(struct xt_counters) * num_counters) != 0)
-		ret = -EFAULT;
+			 sizeof(struct xt_counters) * num_counters) != 0) {
+		/* Silent error, can't fail, new table is already in place */
+		net_warn_ratelimited("arptables: counters copy to user failed while replacing table\n");
+	}
 	vfree(counters);
 	xt_table_unlock(t);
 	return ret;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
index 718dfbd..99e810f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
@@ -1231,8 +1231,10 @@ __do_replace(struct net *net, const char *name, unsigned int valid_hooks,
 
 	xt_free_table_info(oldinfo);
 	if (copy_to_user(counters_ptr, counters,
-			 sizeof(struct xt_counters) * num_counters) != 0)
-		ret = -EFAULT;
+			 sizeof(struct xt_counters) * num_counters) != 0) {
+		/* Silent error, can't fail, new table is already in place */
+		net_warn_ratelimited("iptables: counters copy to user failed while replacing table\n");
+	}
 	vfree(counters);
 	xt_table_unlock(t);
 	return ret;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index 710238f..e080fbb 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -1241,8 +1241,10 @@ __do_replace(struct net *net, const char *name, unsigned int valid_hooks,
 
 	xt_free_table_info(oldinfo);
 	if (copy_to_user(counters_ptr, counters,
-			 sizeof(struct xt_counters) * num_counters) != 0)
-		ret = -EFAULT;
+			 sizeof(struct xt_counters) * num_counters) != 0) {
+		/* Silent error, can't fail, new table is already in place */
+		net_warn_ratelimited("ip6tables: counters copy to user failed while replacing table\n");
+	}
 	vfree(counters);
 	xt_table_unlock(t);
 	return ret;
-- 
1.8.3.1

Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: Can't fail and free after table replacement

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:57:45PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> All xtables variants suffer from the defect that the copy_to_user()
> to copy the counters to user memory may fail after the table has
> already been exchanged and thus exposed. Return an error at this
> point will result in freeing the already exposed table. Any
> subsequent packet processing will result in a kernel panic.
> 
> We can't copy the counters before exposing the new tables as we
> want provide the counter state after the old table has been
> unhooked. Therefore convert this into a silent error.

Applied, thanks Thomas.