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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y 2/2] netfilter: ebtables: zero chainstack array
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:26:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260715212646.278719-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260715212646.278719-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

[ Upstream commit cbfe53599eebffd188938ab6774cc41794f6f9d5 ]

sashiko 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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 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 9d23eee5736789..b7e3ae8ae38c3f 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -920,8 +920,7 @@ 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) {
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-15 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-13 13:48 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] netfilter: ebtables: zero chainstack array" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-15 21:26 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 1/2] netfilter: ebtables: Use vmalloc_array() to improve code Sasha Levin
2026-07-15 21:26   ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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