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    net/sched: act_ipt: zero skb->cb before calling target · 93d75d47
    Florian Westphal authored
    xtables relies on skb being owned by ip stack, i.e. with ipv4
    check in place skb->cb is supposed to be IPCB.
    
    I don't see an immediate problem (REJECT target cannot be used anymore
    now that PRE/POSTROUTING hook validation has been fixed), but better be
    safe than sorry.
    
    A much better patch would be to either mark act_ipt as
    "depends on BROKEN" or remove it altogether. I plan to do this
    for -next in the near future.
    
    This tc extension is broken in the sense that tc lacks an
    equivalent of NF_STOLEN verdict.
    
    With NF_STOLEN, target function takes complete ownership of skb, caller
    cannot dereference it anymore.
    
    ACT_STOLEN cannot be used for this: it has a different meaning, caller
    is allowed to dereference the skb.
    
    At this time NF_STOLEN won't be returned by any targets as far as I can
    see, but this may change in the future.
    
    It might be possible to work around this via list of allowed
    target extensions known to only return DROP or ACCEPT verdicts, but this
    is error prone/fragile.
    
    Existing selftest only validates xt_LOG and act_ipt is restricted
    to ipv4 so I don't think this action is used widely.
    
    Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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