netfilter: xtables: check for unconditionality of policies
This adds a check that iptables's original author Rusty set forth in
a FIXME comment.
Underflows in iptables are better known as chain policies, and are
required to be unconditional or there would be a stochastical chance
for the policy rule to be skipped if it does not match. If that were
to happen, rule execution would continue in an unexpected spurious
fashion.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index 8e4921a..b0599b9 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*/
-
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/in.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
@@ -771,13 +771,15 @@
continue;
if ((unsigned char *)e - base == hook_entries[h])
newinfo->hook_entry[h] = hook_entries[h];
- if ((unsigned char *)e - base == underflows[h])
+ if ((unsigned char *)e - base == underflows[h]) {
+ if (!unconditional(&e->ipv6)) {
+ pr_err("Underflows must be unconditional\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
newinfo->underflow[h] = underflows[h];
+ }
}
- /* FIXME: underflows must be unconditional, standard verdicts
- < 0 (not IP6T_RETURN). --RR */
-
/* Clear counters and comefrom */
e->counters = ((struct xt_counters) { 0, 0 });
e->comefrom = 0;