From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Jenny Guanni Qu <qguanni@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org,
kadlec@netfilter.org, w@1wt.eu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: fix stack out-of-bounds read in pipapo_drop()
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 09:18:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaqNu3eCF3f5aAvT@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260306080854.908476-1-qguanni@gmail.com>
Jenny Guanni Qu <qguanni@gmail.com> wrote:
> pipapo_drop() passes rulemap[i + 1].n to pipapo_unmap() as the
> to_offset argument on every iteration, including the last one where
> i == m->field_count - 1. This reads one element past the end of the
> stack-allocated rulemap array (declared as rulemap[NFT_PIPAPO_MAX_FIELDS]
> with NFT_PIPAPO_MAX_FIELDS == 16).
Thanks, patch looks correct to me.
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c b/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
> index 7ef4b44471d3..9fb83fc05848 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
> @@ -1659,7 +1659,8 @@ static void pipapo_drop(struct nft_pipapo_match *m,
> }
>
> pipapo_unmap(f->mt, f->rules, rulemap[i].to, rulemap[i].n,
> - rulemap[i + 1].n, i == m->field_count - 1);
> + i == m->field_count - 1 ? 0 : rulemap[i + 1].n,
> + i == m->field_count - 1);
Small nit, could you add
bool last = i == m->field_count - 1;
and then use 'last ? 0 : ..., last) ?
This idiom is used elsewhere in the file as well and I think it makes
this sligthly more readable.
Thanks!
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2026-03-06 8:08 [PATCH] netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: fix stack out-of-bounds read in pipapo_drop() Jenny Guanni Qu
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