[PATCH net 1/9] netfilter: xt_nat: reject unsupported target families

From: Wyatt Feng <[email protected]>

xt_nat SNAT and DNAT target handlers assume IP-family conntrack state
is present and can dereference a NULL pointer when instantiated from an
unsupported family through nft_compat. A bridge-family compat rule can
therefore trigger a NULL-dereference in nf_nat_setup_info().

Reject non-IP families in xt_nat_checkentry() so unsupported targets
cannot be installed. Keep NFPROTO_INET allowed for valid inet NAT
compat users and leave the runtime fast path unchanged.

[ The crash was fixed via
  9dbba7e694ec ("netfilter: nft_compat: ebtables emulation must reject non-bridge targets"),
  so this patch is no longer critical.
  Nevertheless, NAT is only relevant for ipv4/ipv6, so this extra
  family check is a good idea in any case. ]

Fixes: c7232c9979cb ("netfilter: add protocol independent NAT core")
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Zhengchuan Liang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.4
Signed-off-by: Wyatt Feng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_nat.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_nat.c b/net/netfilter/xt_nat.c
index b4f7bbc3f3ca..51c7f7ce88d9 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_nat.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_nat.c
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ static int xt_nat_checkentry_v0(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
 
 static int xt_nat_checkentry(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
 {
+	switch (par->family) {
+	case NFPROTO_IPV4:
+	case NFPROTO_IPV6:
+	case NFPROTO_INET:
+		break;
+	default:
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	return nf_ct_netns_get(par->net, par->family);
 }
 
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