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R. Silva" To: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Florian Westphal , "David S. Miller" Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Subject: [PATCH v2] netfilter: nf_tables: remove VLA usage Message-ID: <20180313031617.GA2204@embeddedgus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator4166.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - embeddedor.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 189.175.117.58 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1evaQE-0031A3-Br X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: (embeddedgus) [189.175.117.58]:49622 X-Source-Auth: gustavo@embeddedor.com X-Email-Count: 5 X-Source-Cap: Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z2F0b3I0MTY2Lmhvc3RnYXRvci5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it with dynamic memory allocation. From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug. Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva --- Changes in v2: - Use kmalloc_array instead of kcalloc. net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 23 +++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 3f815b6..5a42e97 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -4357,16 +4357,20 @@ static struct nft_object *nft_obj_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nft_object_type *type, const struct nlattr *attr) { - struct nlattr *tb[type->maxattr + 1]; + struct nlattr **tb; const struct nft_object_ops *ops; struct nft_object *obj; - int err; + int err = -ENOMEM; + + tb = kmalloc_array(type->maxattr + 1, sizeof(*tb), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!tb) + goto err1; if (attr) { err = nla_parse_nested(tb, type->maxattr, attr, type->policy, NULL); if (err < 0) - goto err1; + goto err2; } else { memset(tb, 0, sizeof(tb[0]) * (type->maxattr + 1)); } @@ -4375,7 +4379,7 @@ static struct nft_object *nft_obj_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, ops = type->select_ops(ctx, (const struct nlattr * const *)tb); if (IS_ERR(ops)) { err = PTR_ERR(ops); - goto err1; + goto err2; } } else { ops = type->ops; @@ -4383,18 +4387,21 @@ static struct nft_object *nft_obj_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, err = -ENOMEM; obj = kzalloc(sizeof(*obj) + ops->size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (obj == NULL) - goto err1; + if (!obj) + goto err2; err = ops->init(ctx, (const struct nlattr * const *)tb, obj); if (err < 0) - goto err2; + goto err3; obj->ops = ops; + kfree(tb); return obj; -err2: +err3: kfree(obj); +err2: + kfree(tb); err1: return ERR_PTR(err); }