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List: netfilter-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] netfilter: Terminate rule eval if protocol=IPv6 and ipv6 module is disabled
From: Florian Westphal <fw () strlen ! de>
Date: 2019-08-30 20:58:02
Message-ID: 20190830205802.GS20113 () breakpoint ! cc
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Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> If IPv6 is disabled on boot (ipv6.disable=1), but nft_fib_inet ends up
> dealing with a IPv6 packet, it causes a kernel panic in
> fib6_node_lookup_1(), crashing in bad_page_fault.
>
> The panic is caused by trying to deference a very low address (0x38
> in ppc64le), due to ipv6.fib6_main_tbl = NULL.
> BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000038
>
> The kernel panic was reproduced in a host that disabled IPv6 on boot and
> have to process guest packets (coming from a bridge) using it's ip6tables.
>
> Terminate rule evaluation when packet protocol is IPv6 but the ipv6 module
> is not loaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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