From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 21:59:44 +0100
Subject: netfilter: nf_tables: fix unexpected EOPNOTSUPP error
Patch-mainline: v5.4-rc7
Git-commit: 9fedd894b4e1c7ad5e5f711899f6a0a1da01d996
References: bsc#1176447
If the object type doesn't implement an update operation and the user tries to
update it will silently ignore the update operation.
Fixes: aa4095a156b5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix possible null-pointer dereference in object update")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -5143,9 +5143,6 @@ static int nf_tables_updobj(const struct
struct nft_trans *trans;
int err;
- if (!obj->ops->update)
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
trans = nft_trans_alloc(ctx, NFT_MSG_NEWOBJ,
sizeof(struct nft_trans_obj));
if (!trans)
@@ -6499,7 +6496,8 @@ static void nft_obj_commit_update(struct
obj = nft_trans_obj(trans);
newobj = nft_trans_obj_newobj(trans);
- obj->ops->update(obj, newobj);
+ if (obj->ops->update)
+ obj->ops->update(obj, newobj);
kfree(newobj);
}