From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de, phil@nwl.cc,
coreteam@netfilter.org,
Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>,
Wei Fang <void0red@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_tables: fix device name and prefix match in hook lookup
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:18:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818101825.8213-1-fmancera@suse.de> (raw)
Currently, a netdev chain or flowtable hooked to a device prefix can be
unintentionally deleted or updated by a control-plane request targeting
an exact device name or even a shorter one due to the usage of min() to
calculate the length to match.
Fix this by making sure an exact device match never matches a prefix and
that both the target and the candidate have the same length.
Reported-by: Wei Fang <void0red@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/CANE+tVrDeNCHQVmsqkV2ozeBqyE3GtRDMhZgsg1bhw10yGNTRQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 6d07a289504a ("netfilter: nf_tables: Support wildcard netdev hook specs")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index af357f6c5070..e2b18c4722fc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@ static int nft_dump_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nft_stats __percpu *stats)
return -ENOSPC;
}
-static bool hook_is_prefix(struct nft_hook *hook)
+static bool hook_is_prefix(const struct nft_hook *hook)
{
return strlen(hook->ifname) >= hook->ifnamelen;
}
@@ -2440,8 +2440,11 @@ static struct nft_hook *nft_hook_list_find(struct list_head *hook_list,
struct nft_hook *hook;
list_for_each_entry(hook, hook_list, list) {
- if (!strncmp(hook->ifname, this->ifname,
- min(hook->ifnamelen, this->ifnamelen))) {
+ if (hook_is_prefix(hook) != hook_is_prefix(this))
+ continue;
+ if (hook->ifnamelen != this->ifnamelen)
+ continue;
+ if (!strncmp(hook->ifname, this->ifname, hook->ifnamelen)) {
if (hook->flags & NFT_HOOK_REMOVE)
continue;
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-18 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-18 10:18 Fernando Fernandez Mancera [this message]
2026-08-26 10:22 ` [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_tables: fix device name and prefix match in hook lookup Phil Sutter
2026-08-26 10:25 ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-08-26 10:32 ` Phil Sutter
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