netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix pointer leaks to userspace

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:58:37 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu, fw@...len.de, davem@...emloft.net,
        andreyknvl@...gle.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix pointer leaks to userspace

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 01:21:20PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> Several netfilter matches and targets put kernel pointers into
> info objects, but don't set usersize in descriptors.
> This leads to kernel pointer leaks if a match/target is set
> and then read back to userspace.
> 
> Properly set usersize for these matches/targets.
> 
> Found with manual code inspection.

Applied, thanks!

I think this fixes:

ec2318904965 xtables: extend matches and targets with .usersize

So I'm going to add the Fixes: tag here, no problem.