diff mbox series

[1/5] netfilter: bridge: Drops IPv6 packets if IPv6 module is not loaded

Message ID 20190904193646.23830-2-pablo@netfilter.org
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Miller
Headers show
Series [1/5] netfilter: bridge: Drops IPv6 packets if IPv6 module is not loaded | expand

Commit Message

Pablo Neira Ayuso Sept. 4, 2019, 7:36 p.m. UTC 
From: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>

A kernel panic can happen if a host has disabled IPv6 on boot and have to
process guest packets (coming from a bridge) using it's ip6tables.

IPv6 packets need to be dropped if the IPv6 module is not loaded, and the
host ip6tables will be used.

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c
index d3f9592f4ff8..af7800103e51 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c
@@ -496,6 +496,10 @@  static unsigned int br_nf_pre_routing(void *priv,
 		if (!brnet->call_ip6tables &&
 		    !br_opt_get(br, BROPT_NF_CALL_IP6TABLES))
 			return NF_ACCEPT;
+		if (!ipv6_mod_enabled()) {
+			pr_warn_once("Module ipv6 is disabled, so call_ip6tables is not supported.");
+			return NF_DROP;
+		}
 
 		nf_bridge_pull_encap_header_rcsum(skb);
 		return br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6(priv, skb, state);