From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: [PATCH nf-next 1/3] netfilter: ebtables: zero chainstack array
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 10:48:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260704084811.27355-2-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260704084811.27355-1-fw@strlen.de>
shashiko reports:
looking at ebtables table
translation, could a sparse cpu_possible_mask lead to an uninitialized pointer
free?
If cpu_possible_mask is sparse (for example, CPU 0 and CPU 2 are possible,
but CPU 1 is not), the allocation loop skips CPU 1. If vmalloc_node() fails at
CPU 2, the cleanup loop will blindly decrement and call vfree() on
newinfo->chainstack[1].
Not a real-world bug, such allocation isn't expected to fail
in the first place.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index 042d31278713..66c407cffa16 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -923,8 +923,7 @@ static int translate_table(struct net *net, const char *name,
* if an error occurs
*/
newinfo->chainstack =
- vmalloc_array(nr_cpu_ids,
- sizeof(*(newinfo->chainstack)));
+ vcalloc(nr_cpu_ids, sizeof(*(newinfo->chainstack)));
if (!newinfo->chainstack)
return -ENOMEM;
for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-04 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-04 8:48 [PATCH nf-next 0/3] netfilter: ebtables: shashiko nitpicks Florian Westphal
2026-07-04 8:48 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-07-04 8:48 ` [PATCH nf-next 2/3] netfilter: ebtables: account compat ebt_table_info to kmemcg Florian Westphal
2026-07-04 8:48 ` [PATCH nf-next 3/3] netfilter: ebtables: bound num_counters in do_update_counters() Florian Westphal
2026-07-04 9:31 ` [PATCH nf-next 0/3] netfilter: ebtables: shashiko nitpicks Florian Westphal
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