FAILED: patch "[PATCH] netfilter: nft_fib: fix stale stack leak via the OIFNAME" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x ab185e0c4fb82dfba6fb86f8271e06f931d9c64c
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026061541-acrobat-user-e460@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From ab185e0c4fb82dfba6fb86f8271e06f931d9c64c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davide Ornaghi <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:39:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: nft_fib: fix stale stack leak via the OIFNAME
register

For NFT_FIB_RESULT_OIFNAME the destination register is declared with len = IFNAMSIZ (four 32-bit registers), but on the lookup-fail, RTN_LOCAL and oif-mismatch paths nft_fib{4,6}_eval() only writes one register via "*dest = 0". The remaining three registers are left as whatever was on the stack in nft_do_chain()'s struct nft_regs, and a downstream expression that loads the register span can leak that uninitialised kernel stack to userspace.

The NFTA_FIB_F_PRESENT existence check has the same shape: it is only meaningful for NFT_FIB_RESULT_OIF, yet it was accepted for any result type while the eval stores a single byte via nft_reg_store8(), leaving the rest of the declared span stale.

Fix both:

- replace the bare "*dest = 0" in the eval with nft_fib_store_result(), which strscpy_pad()s the whole IFNAMSIZ for OIFNAME (and is already used on the other early-return path), and

- restrict NFTA_FIB_F_PRESENT to NFT_FIB_RESULT_OIF and declare its destination as a single u8, so the marked span matches the one byte the eval writes.

index 9d0c6d75109b..177d738825b4 100644
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ void nft_fib4_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr, struct nft_regs *regs,
 		fl4.saddr = get_saddr(iph->daddr);
 	}
 
-	*dest = 0;
+	nft_fib_store_result(dest, priv, NULL);
 
 	if (fib_lookup(nft_net(pkt), &fl4, &res, FIB_LOOKUP_IGNORE_LINKSTATE))
 		return;

index 2dbe44715df3..b9ad7cac1417 100644
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ void nft_fib6_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr, struct nft_regs *regs,
 
 	lookup_flags = nft_fib6_flowi_init(&fl6, priv, pkt, oif, iph);
 
-	*dest = 0;
+	nft_fib_store_result(dest, priv, NULL);
 	ret = nft_fib6_lookup(nft_net(pkt), &fl6, &res, lookup_flags);
 	if (ret || res.fib6_flags & (RTF_REJECT | RTF_ANYCAST | RTF_LOCAL))
 		return;

index 327a5f33659c..a1632e308f18 100644
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ int nft_fib_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nft_expr *expr,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (priv->flags & NFTA_FIB_F_PRESENT) {
+		if (priv->result != NFT_FIB_RESULT_OIF)
+			return -EINVAL;
+		len = sizeof(u8);
+	}
+
 	err = nft_parse_register_store(ctx, tb[NFTA_FIB_DREG], &priv->dreg,
 				       NULL, NFT_DATA_VALUE, len);
 	if (err < 0)

From: Davide Ornaghi <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit ab185e0c4fb82dfba6fb86f8271e06f931d9c64c ]

For NFT_FIB_RESULT_OIFNAME the destination register is declared with len = IFNAMSIZ (four 32-bit registers), but on the lookup-fail, RTN_LOCAL and oif-mismatch paths nft_fib{4,6}_eval() only writes one register via "*dest = 0". The remaining three registers are left as whatever was on the stack in nft_do_chain()'s struct nft_regs, and a downstream expression that loads the register span can leak that uninitialised kernel stack to userspace.

The NFTA_FIB_F_PRESENT existence check has the same shape: it is only meaningful for NFT_FIB_RESULT_OIF, yet it was accepted for any result type while the eval stores a single byte via nft_reg_store8(), leaving the rest of the declared span stale.

Fix both:

- replace the bare "*dest = 0" in the eval with nft_fib_store_result(), which strscpy_pad()s the whole IFNAMSIZ for OIFNAME (and is already used on the other early-return path), and

- restrict NFTA_FIB_F_PRESENT to NFT_FIB_RESULT_OIF and declare its destination as a single u8, so the marked span matches the one byte the eval writes.

---
 net/ipv4/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv4.c | 2 +-
 net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c | 2 +-
 net/netfilter/nft_fib.c           | 6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index 82af6cd76d13e0..e695283aeb2d04 100644
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ void nft_fib4_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr, struct nft_regs *regs,
 		fl4.saddr = get_saddr(iph->daddr);
 	}
 
-	*dest = 0;
+	nft_fib_store_result(dest, priv, NULL);
 
 	if (fib_lookup(nft_net(pkt), &fl4, &res, FIB_LOOKUP_IGNORE_LINKSTATE))
 		return;

index 421036a3605b46..3005dfbca6155b 100644
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ void nft_fib6_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr, struct nft_regs *regs,
 
 	lookup_flags = nft_fib6_flowi_init(&fl6, priv, pkt, oif, iph);
 
-	*dest = 0;
+	nft_fib_store_result(dest, priv, NULL);
 	rt = (void *)ip6_route_lookup(nft_net(pkt), &fl6, pkt->skb,
 				      lookup_flags);
 	if (rt->dst.error)

index 96e02a83c045e2..22846136c754a2 100644
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ int nft_fib_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nft_expr *expr,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (priv->flags & NFTA_FIB_F_PRESENT) {
+		if (priv->result != NFT_FIB_RESULT_OIF)
+			return -EINVAL;
+		len = sizeof(u8);
+	}
+
 	err = nft_parse_register_store(ctx, tb[NFTA_FIB_DREG], &priv->dreg,
 				       NULL, NFT_DATA_VALUE, len);
 	if (err < 0)

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