[PATCH nf] netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload
From: Xiang Mei (Microsoft)
Date: Sun Jul 19 2026 - 18:16:06 EST
nft_payload_offload_mask() builds the offload match mask for a payload
expression that covers only part of a header field. For a partial IPv6
address match (field_len = 16, priv_len = 1) that shift is 1 << 120, which
is undefined on the 32-bit int operand. It also trims only one word, so
the remaining words stay 0xffffffff (and when priv_len is a multiple of 4
the trim is skipped entirely), leaving the mask covering more bytes than
the rule matches.
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/netfilter/nft_payload.c:278:20
shift exponent 120 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
...
The match is byte-granular and struct nft_data is zero-initialised, so the
correct mask is simply the first priv_len bytes set to 0xff. Set those
bytes directly and drop the word/shift trimming; this removes the undefined
shift and no longer over-masks the trailing bytes.
Fixes: a5d45bc0dc50 ("netfilter: nftables_offload: build mask based from the matching bytes")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nft_payload.c | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_payload.c b/net/netfilter/nft_payload.c
index 391539a1ceaa..8a4472fd77d9 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_payload.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_payload.c
@@ -259,9 +259,7 @@ static int nft_payload_dump(struct sk_buff *skb,
static bool nft_payload_offload_mask(struct nft_offload_reg *reg,
u32 priv_len, u32 field_len)
{
- unsigned int remainder, delta, k;
struct nft_data mask = {};
- __be32 remainder_mask;
if (priv_len == field_len) {
memset(®->mask, 0xff, priv_len);
@@ -270,15 +268,7 @@ static bool nft_payload_offload_mask(struct nft_offload_reg *reg,
return false;
}
- memset(&mask, 0xff, field_len);
- remainder = priv_len % sizeof(u32);
- if (remainder) {
- k = priv_len / sizeof(u32);
- delta = field_len - priv_len;
- remainder_mask = htonl(~((1 << (delta * BITS_PER_BYTE)) - 1));
- mask.data[k] = (__force u32)remainder_mask;
- }
-
+ memset(&mask, 0xff, priv_len);
memcpy(®->mask, &mask, field_len);
return true;
--
2.43.0