Commit 8f15b5071b45 for kernel

commit 8f15b5071b4548b0aafc03b366eb45c9c6566704
Author: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 25 14:11:08 2026 +0100

    netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks

    Replace manual range and mask validations with netlink policy
    annotations in ctnetlink code paths, so that the netlink core rejects
    invalid values early and can generate extack errors.

    - CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE: reject values > TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT2 at
      policy level, removing the manual >= TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX check.
    - CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL/REPLY: reject values > TCP_MAX_WSCALE
      (14). The normal TCP option parsing path already clamps to this value,
      but the ctnetlink path accepted 0-255, causing undefined behavior when
      used as a u32 shift count.
    - CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS/REPLY_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with
      CTA_FILTER_F_ALL, removing the manual mask checks.
    - CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS: use NLA_POLICY_MASK with NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK, adding
      a new mask define grouping all valid expect flags.

    Extracted from a broader nf-next patch by Florian Westphal, scoped to
    ctnetlink for the fixes tree.

    Fixes: c8e2078cfe41 ("[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: add support for internal tcp connection tracking flags handling")
    Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
    Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h
index 26071021e986..56b6b60a814f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h
@@ -159,5 +159,9 @@ enum ip_conntrack_expect_events {
 #define NF_CT_EXPECT_INACTIVE		0x2
 #define NF_CT_EXPECT_USERSPACE		0x4

+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#define NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK	(NF_CT_EXPECT_PERMANENT | NF_CT_EXPECT_INACTIVE | \
+				 NF_CT_EXPECT_USERSPACE)
+#endif

 #endif /* _UAPI_NF_CONNTRACK_COMMON_H */
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 6e6aeb0ab0a1..3f408f3713bb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -910,8 +910,8 @@ struct ctnetlink_filter {
 };

 static const struct nla_policy cta_filter_nla_policy[CTA_FILTER_MAX + 1] = {
-	[CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS]		= { .type = NLA_U32 },
-	[CTA_FILTER_REPLY_FLAGS]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
+	[CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS]		= NLA_POLICY_MASK(NLA_U32, CTA_FILTER_F_ALL),
+	[CTA_FILTER_REPLY_FLAGS]	= NLA_POLICY_MASK(NLA_U32, CTA_FILTER_F_ALL),
 };

 static int ctnetlink_parse_filter(const struct nlattr *attr,
@@ -925,17 +925,11 @@ static int ctnetlink_parse_filter(const struct nlattr *attr,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;

-	if (tb[CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS]) {
+	if (tb[CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS])
 		filter->orig_flags = nla_get_u32(tb[CTA_FILTER_ORIG_FLAGS]);
-		if (filter->orig_flags & ~CTA_FILTER_F_ALL)
-			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	}

-	if (tb[CTA_FILTER_REPLY_FLAGS]) {
+	if (tb[CTA_FILTER_REPLY_FLAGS])
 		filter->reply_flags = nla_get_u32(tb[CTA_FILTER_REPLY_FLAGS]);
-		if (filter->reply_flags & ~CTA_FILTER_F_ALL)
-			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	}

 	return 0;
 }
@@ -2634,7 +2628,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy exp_nla_policy[CTA_EXPECT_MAX+1] = {
 	[CTA_EXPECT_HELP_NAME]	= { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING,
 				    .len = NF_CT_HELPER_NAME_LEN - 1 },
 	[CTA_EXPECT_ZONE]	= { .type = NLA_U16 },
-	[CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
+	[CTA_EXPECT_FLAGS]	= NLA_POLICY_MASK(NLA_BE32, NF_CT_EXPECT_MASK),
 	[CTA_EXPECT_CLASS]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[CTA_EXPECT_NAT]	= { .type = NLA_NESTED },
 	[CTA_EXPECT_FN]		= { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING },
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
index 0c1d086e96cb..b67426c2189b 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
@@ -1385,9 +1385,9 @@ static int tcp_to_nlattr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *nla,
 }

 static const struct nla_policy tcp_nla_policy[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_MAX+1] = {
-	[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE]	    = { .type = NLA_U8 },
-	[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
-	[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_REPLY]    = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+	[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE]	    = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT2),
+	[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_ORIGINAL] = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, TCP_MAX_WSCALE),
+	[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_WSCALE_REPLY]    = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, TCP_MAX_WSCALE),
 	[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_FLAGS_ORIGINAL]  = { .len = sizeof(struct nf_ct_tcp_flags) },
 	[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_FLAGS_REPLY]	    = { .len = sizeof(struct nf_ct_tcp_flags) },
 };
@@ -1414,10 +1414,6 @@ static int nlattr_to_tcp(struct nlattr *cda[], struct nf_conn *ct)
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;

-	if (tb[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE] &&
-	    nla_get_u8(tb[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE]) >= TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	spin_lock_bh(&ct->lock);
 	if (tb[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE])
 		ct->proto.tcp.state = nla_get_u8(tb[CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE]);