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Date:	Thu, 21 May 2015 13:42:03 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	fw@...len.de, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: netfilter: ensure number of counters is >0 in do_replace()

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 08:55:17PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> After improving setsockopt() coverage in trinity, I started triggering
> vmalloc failures pretty reliably from this code path:
> 
> warn_alloc_failed+0xe9/0x140
> __vmalloc_node_range+0x1be/0x270
> vzalloc+0x4b/0x50
> __do_replace+0x52/0x260 [ip_tables]
> do_ipt_set_ctl+0x15d/0x1d0 [ip_tables]
> nf_setsockopt+0x65/0x90
> ip_setsockopt+0x61/0xa0
> raw_setsockopt+0x16/0x60
> sock_common_setsockopt+0x14/0x20
> SyS_setsockopt+0x71/0xd0
> 
> It turns out we don't validate that the num_counters field in the
> struct we pass in from userspace is initialized.
> 
> The same problem also exists in ebtables, arptables, ipv6, and the
> compat variants.

Applied.

This also applies to -stable kernels:

3.2.x
3.4.x
3.10.x
3.12.x
3.14.x
3.18.x
4.0.x

so after some testing and a little while, I'll pass this on.

Thanks.
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