[PATCH v6.6] netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: do not rely on ZERO_SIZE_PTR
From: Keerthana K
Date: Mon Apr 13 2026 - 00:41:14 EST
From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 07ace0bbe03b3d8e85869af1dec5e4087b1d57b8 upstream
pipapo relies on kmalloc(0) returning ZERO_SIZE_PTR (i.e., not NULL
but pointer is invalid).
Rework this to not call slab allocator when we'd request a 0-byte
allocation.
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mukul Sikka <mukul.sikka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brennan Lamoreaux <brennan.lamoreaux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[Keerthana: In older stable branches (v6.6 and earlier), the allocation logic in
pipapo_clone() still relies on `src->rules` rather than `src->rules_alloc`
(introduced in v6.9 via 9f439bd6ef4f). Consequently, the previously
backported INT_MAX clamping check uses `src->rules`. This patch correctly
moves that `src->rules > (INT_MAX / ...)` check inside the new
`if (src->rules > 0)` block]
Signed-off-by: Keerthana K <keerthana.kalyanasundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c b/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
index c3ada6798d4a..98cdeb9fa210 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
@@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ static struct nft_pipapo_elem *pipapo_get(const struct net *net,
int i;
m = priv->clone;
+ if (m->bsize_max == 0)
+ return ret;
res_map = kmalloc_array(m->bsize_max, sizeof(*res_map), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!res_map) {
@@ -1394,14 +1396,20 @@ static struct nft_pipapo_match *pipapo_clone(struct nft_pipapo_match *old)
src->bsize * sizeof(*dst->lt) *
src->groups * NFT_PIPAPO_BUCKETS(src->bb));
- if (src->rules > (INT_MAX / sizeof(*src->mt)))
- goto out_mt;
+ if (src->rules > 0) {
+ if (src->rules > (INT_MAX / sizeof(*src->mt)))
+ goto out_mt;
- dst->mt = kvmalloc(src->rules * sizeof(*src->mt), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
- if (!dst->mt)
- goto out_mt;
+ dst->mt = kvmalloc_array(src->rules, sizeof(*src->mt),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!dst->mt)
+ goto out_mt;
+
+ memcpy(dst->mt, src->mt, src->rules * sizeof(*src->mt));
+ } else {
+ dst->mt = NULL;
+ }
- memcpy(dst->mt, src->mt, src->rules * sizeof(*src->mt));
src++;
dst++;
}
--
2.43.7