Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Zero the tuple in nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple()

[Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:01:55 +0000
Ian Wilson <iwilson@brocade.com> wrote:

>  From 0d63c5b06276d7946ba2f1f4aace4f0486ec74cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ian Wilson <iwilson@brocade.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:34:21 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: Zero the tuple in nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple()
> 
> nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple() is called from nfnl_cthelper_new(),
> nfnl_cthelper_get() and nfnl_cthelper_del().  In each case they pass
> a pointer to an nf_conntrack_tuple data structure local variable:
> 
>      struct nf_conntrack_tuple tuple;
>      ...
>      ret = nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple(&tuple, tb[NFCTH_TUPLE]);
> 
> The problem is that this local variable is not initialized, and
> nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple() only initializes two fields: src.l3num and
> dst.protonum.  This leaves all other fields with undefined values
> based on whatever is on the stack:
> 
>      tuple->src.l3num = ntohs(nla_get_be16(tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L3PROTONUM]));
>      tuple->dst.protonum = nla_get_u8(tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L4PROTONUM]);
> 
> The symptom observed was that when the rpc and tns helpers were added
> then traffic to port 1536 was being sent to user-space.
> 
> ---
>   net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c 
> b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
> index a5599fc..01f4c45 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
> @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple(struct nf_conntrack_tuple 
> *tuple,
>       if (!tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L3PROTONUM] || !tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L4PROTONUM])
>           return -EINVAL;
> 
> +     /* Not all fields are initialized so first zero the tuple */
> +    memset(tuple, 0, sizeof(struct nf_conntrack_tuple));
> +
>       tuple->src.l3num = ntohs(nla_get_be16(tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L3PROTONUM]));
>       tuple->dst.protonum = nla_get_u8(tb[NFCTH_TUPLE_L4PROTONUM]);
> 

The code looks correct but you still have some more hurdles.
1. Don't use Outlook to send patches, it corrupts line wrapping.
2. Missing signed off by
3. Indentation is wrong.

$ ~/kernel/linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl /tmp/nfnt.patch 
ERROR: patch seems to be corrupt (line wrapped?)
#60: FILE: net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c:76:
*tuple,

WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
#65: FILE: net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c:81:
+    memset(tuple, 0, sizeof(struct nf_conntrack_tuple));$

ERROR: Missing Signed-off-by: line(s)

total: 2 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks, 10 lines checked

/tmp/nfnt.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.