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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com,
	linkerpro@mail.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_tables: validate hooks in NAT expressions
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:28:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150114172830.GA21037@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150114171730.GF5710@acer.localdomain>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 05:17:31PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On 14.01, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > The user can crash the kernel if it configures the NAT chain in the
> > wrong hook, so validate that the expression is used from the right
> > hook when loading the rule.
> > 
> > This patch introduces nft_chain_validate_hooks() which is based on
> > existing code in the bridge version of the reject expression.
> 
> But this will still allow use in non base chains that are called
> from incorrect chains, right?

The expression .validate callback should make sure that doesn't happen
once you attach the non-base chain is "attached" to some base chain
via jump/goto.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-14 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-14 17:01 [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_tables: validate hooks in NAT expressions Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-01-14 17:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-01-14 17:28   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2015-01-14 17:45     ` Patrick McHardy
2015-01-14 17:50       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-01-14 17:59         ` Patrick McHardy

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