[PATCH] netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: apply per-class values when updating policies

From: David Carlier

Date: Sat Apr 11 2026 - 14:58:44 EST


When a userspace conntrack helper with multiple expectation classes is
updated via nfnetlink, every class ends up with the first class's
max_expected and timeout values.

nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_all() validates each new policy into the
corresponding slot of the temporary new_policy array, but the second
loop that commits the values into the live helper dereferences
new_policy as a pointer instead of indexing it, so every iteration
reads new_policy[0] regardless of i. An update that changes per-class
values is silently collapsed onto class 0's values with no error
returned to userspace.

Index the temporary array by i in the commit loop so each class gets
its own validated values.

Fixes: 2c422257550f ("netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix runtime expectation policy updates")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
index 0d16ad82d70c..34af6840803e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c
@@ -346,8 +346,8 @@ static int nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_all(struct nlattr *tb[],
for (i = 0; i < helper->expect_class_max + 1; i++) {
policy = (struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy *)
&helper->expect_policy[i];
- policy->max_expected = new_policy->max_expected;
- policy->timeout = new_policy->timeout;
+ policy->max_expected = new_policy[i].max_expected;
+ policy->timeout = new_policy[i].timeout;
}

err:
--
2.53.0