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authorXiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>2026-04-02 00:20:57 +0300
committerFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2026-04-08 14:33:36 +0300
commit1f3083aec8836213da441270cdb1ab612dd82cf4 (patch)
tree90eeb2f6f409e0b4adb9b0a219f581529a42ad6d /net
parent9a91797e61d286805ae10a92cc48959c30800556 (diff)
downloadlinux-1f3083aec8836213da441270cdb1ab612dd82cf4.tar.xz
netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator
When batching multiple NFLOG messages (inst->qlen > 1), __nfulnl_send() appends an NLMSG_DONE terminator with sizeof(struct nfgenmsg) payload via nlmsg_put(), but never initializes the nfgenmsg bytes. The nlmsg_put() helper only zeroes alignment padding after the payload, not the payload itself, so four bytes of stale kernel heap data are leaked to userspace in the NLMSG_DONE message body. Use nfnl_msg_put() to build the NLMSG_DONE terminator, which initializes the nfgenmsg payload via nfnl_fill_hdr(), consistent with how __build_packet_message() already constructs NFULNL_MSG_PACKET headers. Fixes: 29c5d4afba51 ("[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix sending of multipart messages") Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
index f80978c06fa0..0db908518b2f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -361,10 +361,10 @@ static void
__nfulnl_send(struct nfulnl_instance *inst)
{
if (inst->qlen > 1) {
- struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_put(inst->skb, 0, 0,
- NLMSG_DONE,
- sizeof(struct nfgenmsg),
- 0);
+ struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nfnl_msg_put(inst->skb, 0, 0,
+ NLMSG_DONE, 0,
+ AF_UNSPEC, NFNETLINK_V0,
+ htons(inst->group_num));
if (WARN_ONCE(!nlh, "bad nlskb size: %u, tailroom %d\n",
inst->skb->len, skb_tailroom(inst->skb))) {
kfree_skb(inst->skb);