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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: [PATCH nft] libnftables: fix crash when freeing non-malloc'd address
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:31:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240710133146.14287-1-fw@strlen.de> (raw)

dirname may return static pointer:
munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer
20508 Aborted  nft -f test

Fixes: 6ef04f99382c ("libnftables: search for default include path last")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
 src/libnftables.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libnftables.c b/src/libnftables.c
index af4734c05004..586f8fdede76 100644
--- a/src/libnftables.c
+++ b/src/libnftables.c
@@ -789,12 +789,12 @@ static int nft_run_optimized_file(struct nft_ctx *nft, const char *filename)
 static int nft_ctx_add_basedir_include_path(struct nft_ctx *nft,
 					    const char *filename)
 {
-	const char *basedir = dirname(xstrdup(filename));
+	char *basedir = xstrdup(filename);
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = nft_ctx_add_include_path(nft, basedir);
+	ret = nft_ctx_add_include_path(nft, dirname(basedir));
 
-	free_const(basedir);
+	free(basedir);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.44.2


             reply	other threads:[~2024-07-10 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-10 13:31 Florian Westphal [this message]
2024-07-10 14:01 ` [PATCH nft] libnftables: fix crash when freeing non-malloc'd address Pablo Neira Ayuso

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