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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


  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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