[PATCH net 1/5] netfilter: nf_tables: fix spurious set element insertion failure

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

On some platforms there is a padding hole in the nft_verdict
structure, between the verdict code and the chain pointer.

On element insertion, if the new element clashes with an existing one and
NLM_F_EXCL flag isn't set, we want to ignore the -EEXIST error as long as
the data associated with duplicated element is the same as the existing
one.  The data equality check uses memcmp.

For normal data (NFT_DATA_VALUE) this works fine, but for NFT_DATA_VERDICT
padding area leads to spurious failure even if the verdict data is the
same.

This then makes the insertion fail with 'already exists' error, even
though the new "key : data" matches an existing entry and userspace
told the kernel that it doesn't want to receive an error indication.

Fixes: c016c7e45ddf ("netfilter: nf_tables: honor NLM_F_EXCL flag in set element insertion")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 237f739da3ca..79c7eee33dcd 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -10517,6 +10517,9 @@ static int nft_verdict_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_data *data,
 
 	if (!tb[NFTA_VERDICT_CODE])
 		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* zero padding hole for memcmp */
+	memset(data, 0, sizeof(*data));
 	data->verdict.code = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFTA_VERDICT_CODE]));
 
 	switch (data->verdict.code) {
-- 
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