Commit 5b4c6e38 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar Gustavo A. R. Silva Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nf_tables: remove VLA usage

In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
with dynamic memory allocation.

>From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code
evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we
can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug.

Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent 14463859
......@@ -4357,16 +4357,20 @@ static struct nft_object *nft_obj_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
const struct nft_object_type *type,
const struct nlattr *attr)
{
struct nlattr *tb[type->maxattr + 1];
struct nlattr **tb;
const struct nft_object_ops *ops;
struct nft_object *obj;
int err;
int err = -ENOMEM;
tb = kmalloc_array(type->maxattr + 1, sizeof(*tb), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tb)
goto err1;
if (attr) {
err = nla_parse_nested(tb, type->maxattr, attr, type->policy,
NULL);
if (err < 0)
goto err1;
goto err2;
} else {
memset(tb, 0, sizeof(tb[0]) * (type->maxattr + 1));
}
......@@ -4375,7 +4379,7 @@ static struct nft_object *nft_obj_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
ops = type->select_ops(ctx, (const struct nlattr * const *)tb);
if (IS_ERR(ops)) {
err = PTR_ERR(ops);
goto err1;
goto err2;
}
} else {
ops = type->ops;
......@@ -4383,18 +4387,21 @@ static struct nft_object *nft_obj_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
err = -ENOMEM;
obj = kzalloc(sizeof(*obj) + ops->size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (obj == NULL)
goto err1;
if (!obj)
goto err2;
err = ops->init(ctx, (const struct nlattr * const *)tb, obj);
if (err < 0)
goto err2;
goto err3;
obj->ops = ops;
kfree(tb);
return obj;
err2:
err3:
kfree(obj);
err2:
kfree(tb);
err1:
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
......
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