[NETFILTER 01/02]: ctnetlink: check for status attribute existence on conntrack creation

Patrick McHardy kaber at trash.net
Mon Jan 15 10:28:27 CET 2007


[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: check for status attribute existence on conntrack creation

Check that status flags are available in the netlink message received
to create a new conntrack.

Fixes a crash in ctnetlink_create_conntrack when the CTA_STATUS attribute
is not present.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net>

---
commit 667fca411a3edaf30f98f3f7aaf0c1be8d0e7cc2
tree 0a0026ce63097bcb1c7bf6780cd89a21395b67ca
parent 3ac4e26b2cc43180661453851174f40a1292da09
author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:16:22 +0100
committer Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:16:22 +0100

 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c |    8 +++++---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c      |    8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c
index 55f0ae6..39f23f4 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -946,9 +946,11 @@ ctnetlink_create_conntrack(struct nfattr
 	ct->timeout.expires = jiffies + ct->timeout.expires * HZ;
 	ct->status |= IPS_CONFIRMED;
 
-	err = ctnetlink_change_status(ct, cda);
-	if (err < 0)
-		goto err;
+	if (cda[CTA_STATUS-1]) {
+		err = ctnetlink_change_status(ct, cda);
+		if (err < 0)
+			goto err;
+	}
 
 	if (cda[CTA_PROTOINFO-1]) {
 		err = ctnetlink_change_protoinfo(ct, cda);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index ab67c2b..c650ccc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -963,9 +963,11 @@ ctnetlink_create_conntrack(struct nfattr
 	ct->timeout.expires = jiffies + ct->timeout.expires * HZ;
 	ct->status |= IPS_CONFIRMED;
 
-	err = ctnetlink_change_status(ct, cda);
-	if (err < 0)
-		goto err;
+	if (cda[CTA_STATUS-1]) {
+		err = ctnetlink_change_status(ct, cda);
+		if (err < 0)
+			goto err;
+	}
 
 	if (cda[CTA_PROTOINFO-1]) {
 		err = ctnetlink_change_protoinfo(ct, cda);



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