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netfilter: xt_nfacct: Fix alignment mismatch in xt_nfacct_match_info
authorJuliana Rodrigueiro <juliana.rodrigueiro@intra2net.com>
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:02:22 +0000 (17:02 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 21 Sep 2019 05:18:29 +0000 (07:18 +0200)
commit7844dde203db2656bb32849764fb48dc140c4cd6
tree8c78bf1dc0b90d0b9c1de6b40e51c022f6a68519
parentf30dade2d5d5f20b285e8fcb9f9d3d371a7a7dd8
netfilter: xt_nfacct: Fix alignment mismatch in xt_nfacct_match_info

[ Upstream commit 89a26cd4b501e9511d3cd3d22327fc76a75a38b3 ]

When running a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit iptables binary, the size of
the xt_nfacct_match_info struct diverges.

    kernel: sizeof(struct xt_nfacct_match_info) : 40
    iptables: sizeof(struct xt_nfacct_match_info)) : 36

Trying to append nfacct related rules results in an unhelpful message.
Although it is suggested to look for more information in dmesg, nothing
can be found there.

    # iptables -A <chain> -m nfacct --nfacct-name <acct-object>
    iptables: Invalid argument. Run `dmesg' for more information.

This patch fixes the memory misalignment by enforcing 8-byte alignment
within the struct's first revision. This solution is often used in many
other uapi netfilter headers.

Signed-off-by: Juliana Rodrigueiro <juliana.rodrigueiro@intra2net.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_nfacct.h
net/netfilter/xt_nfacct.c