FAILED: patch "[PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: validate registers coming from" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 6e1acfa387b9ff82cfc7db8cc3b6959221a95851 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:59:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: validate registers coming from
 userspace.

Bail out in case userspace uses unsupported registers.

Fixes: 49499c3e6e18 ("netfilter: nf_tables: switch registers to 32 bit addressing")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index d71a33ae39b3..1f5a0eece0d1 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -9275,17 +9275,23 @@ int nft_parse_u32_check(const struct nlattr *attr, int max, u32 *dest)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nft_parse_u32_check);
 
-static unsigned int nft_parse_register(const struct nlattr *attr)
+static unsigned int nft_parse_register(const struct nlattr *attr, u32 *preg)
 {
 	unsigned int reg;
 
 	reg = ntohl(nla_get_be32(attr));
 	switch (reg) {
 	case NFT_REG_VERDICT...NFT_REG_4:
-		return reg * NFT_REG_SIZE / NFT_REG32_SIZE;
+		*preg = reg * NFT_REG_SIZE / NFT_REG32_SIZE;
+		break;
+	case NFT_REG32_00...NFT_REG32_15:
+		*preg = reg + NFT_REG_SIZE / NFT_REG32_SIZE - NFT_REG32_00;
+		break;
 	default:
-		return reg + NFT_REG_SIZE / NFT_REG32_SIZE - NFT_REG32_00;
+		return -ERANGE;
 	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -9327,7 +9333,10 @@ int nft_parse_register_load(const struct nlattr *attr, u8 *sreg, u32 len)
 	u32 reg;
 	int err;
 
-	reg = nft_parse_register(attr);
+	err = nft_parse_register(attr, &reg);
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
 	err = nft_validate_register_load(reg, len);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
@@ -9382,7 +9391,10 @@ int nft_parse_register_store(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 	int err;
 	u32 reg;
 
-	reg = nft_parse_register(attr);
+	err = nft_parse_register(attr, &reg);
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
 	err = nft_validate_register_store(ctx, reg, data, type, len);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;