Re: Suspicious pattern for use of function xt_register_template()

From: Lukas Bulwahn
Date: Mon Aug 23 2021 - 16:28:49 EST


On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 9:10 PM Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Dear Florian, dear netfilter maintainers,
> >
> > Commit fdacd57c79b ("netfilter: x_tables: never register tables by
> > default") on linux-next
> > introduces the function xt_register_template() and in all cases but
> > one, the calls to that function are followed by:
> >
> > if (ret < 0)
> > return ret;
> >
> > All these checks were also added with the commit above.
> >
> > In the one case, for iptable_mangle_init() in
> > ./net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_mangle.c, this pattern was not followed.
>
> Thats a bug, the error test is missing.

I send out a patch addressing the issue, please pick it:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210823202729.2009-1-lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx/

Thanks,

Lukas