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| author | David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> | 2026-03-25 14:11:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2026-03-26 13:28:17 +0100 |
| commit | 8f15b5071b4548b0aafc03b366eb45c9c6566704 (patch) | |
| tree | b1eb2294ea86a4d259edc31cb5abb9bb0d74ccf4 /include | |
| parent | 6a2b724460cb67caed500c508c2ae5cf012e4db4 (diff) | |
netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks
Replace manual range and mask validations with netlink policy
annotations in ctnetlink code paths, so that the netlink core rejects
invalid values early and can generate extack errors.
- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE: reject values > TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT2 at
policy level, removing the manual >= TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX check.
- CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL/REPLY: reject values > TCP_MAX_WSCALE
(14). The normal TCP option parsing path already clamps to this value,
but the ctnetlink path accepted 0-255, causing undefined behavior when
used as a u32 shift count.
- CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS/REPLY_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with
CTA_FILTER_F_ALL, removing the manual mask checks.
- CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK, adding
a new mask define grouping all valid expect flags.
Extracted from a broader nf-next patch by Florian Westphal, scoped to
ctnetlink for the fixes tree.
Fixes: c8e2078cfe41 ("[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: add support for internal tcp connection tracking flags handling")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h index 26071021e986..56b6b60a814f 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h @@ -159,5 +159,9 @@ enum ip_conntrack_expect_events { #define NF_CT_EXPECT_INACTIVE 0x2 #define NF_CT_EXPECT_USERSPACE 0x4 +#ifdef __KERNEL__ +#define NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK (NF_CT_EXPECT_PERMANENT | NF_CT_EXPECT_INACTIVE | \ + NF_CT_EXPECT_USERSPACE) +#endif #endif /* _UAPI_NF_CONNTRACK_COMMON_H */ |
