[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "netfilter: nf_log: account for size of NLMSG_DONE attribute" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 24 15:01:29 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    netfilter: nf_log: account for size of NLMSG_DONE attribute

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 1b83ee0dde1759d1d91fdc04c6b5ce4fe3eb0d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Westphal <fw at strlen.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:36:06 +0200
Subject: netfilter: nf_log: account for size of NLMSG_DONE attribute

commit 9dfa1dfe4d5e5e66a991321ab08afe69759d797a upstream.

We currently neither account for the nlattr size, nor do we consider
the size of the trailing NLMSG_DONE when allocating nlmsg skb.

This can result in nflog to stop working, as __nfulnl_send() re-tries
sending forever if it failed to append NLMSG_DONE (which will never
work if buffer is not large enough).

Reported-by: Houcheng Lin <houcheng at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw at strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
index d292c8d286eb..ebff1ec79ea2 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -649,7 +649,8 @@ nfulnl_log_packet(struct net *net,
 		+ nla_total_size(sizeof(u_int32_t))	/* gid */
 		+ nla_total_size(plen)			/* prefix */
 		+ nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nfulnl_msg_packet_hw))
-		+ nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nfulnl_msg_packet_timestamp));
+		+ nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nfulnl_msg_packet_timestamp))
+		+ nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nfgenmsg));	/* NLMSG_DONE */

 	if (in && skb_mac_header_was_set(skb)) {
 		size +=   nla_total_size(skb->dev->hard_header_len)
@@ -692,8 +693,7 @@ nfulnl_log_packet(struct net *net,
 		goto unlock_and_release;
 	}

-	if (inst->skb &&
-	    size > skb_tailroom(inst->skb) - sizeof(struct nfgenmsg)) {
+	if (inst->skb && size > skb_tailroom(inst->skb)) {
 		/* either the queue len is too high or we don't have
 		 * enough room in the skb left. flush to userspace. */
 		__nfulnl_flush(inst);
--
2.1.0





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