xshared: Fix for memleak in option merging with ebtables

The crucial difference in ebtables is that all extensions are loaded up
front instead of while parsing -m/-j flags. Since this loading of all
extensions before every call to do_parse() is pointless overhead (cf.
ebtables-restore), other tools' mechanism of freeing all merged options
in xtables_free_opts() after handling each command and resetting
xt_params->opts at the start of the parser loop is problematic.

Fixed commit entailed a hack to defeat the xt_params->opts happening at
start of do_parse() by assigning to xt_params->orig_opts after loading
all extensions. This approach caused a memleak though since
xtables_free_opts() called from xtables_merge_options() will free the
opts pointer only if it differs from orig_opts.

Resolve this via a different approach which eliminates the
xt_params->opts reset at the start of do_parse():

Make xt_params->opts be NULL until the first extension is loaded. Option
merging in command_match() and command_jump() tolerates a NULL pointer
there after minimal adjustment. Deinit in xtables_free_opts() is already
fine as it (re)turns xt_params->opts to a NULL pointer. With do_parse()
expecting that and falling back to xt_params->orig_opts, no explicit
initialization is required anymore and thus ebtables' init is not
mangled by accident.

A critical part is that do_parse() checks xt_params->opts pointer upon
each call to getopt_long() as it may get assigned while parsing.

Fixes: 58d364c7120b5 ("ebtables: Use do_parse() from xshared")
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/iptables/xtables-eb.c b/iptables/xtables-eb.c
index d197b37e..51c699de 100644
--- a/iptables/xtables-eb.c
+++ b/iptables/xtables-eb.c
@@ -298,11 +298,14 @@ static void ebt_load_match(const char *name)
 	xs_init_match(m);
 
 	if (m->x6_options != NULL)
-		opts = xtables_options_xfrm(opts, NULL,
+		opts = xtables_options_xfrm(xt_params->orig_opts, opts,
 					    m->x6_options, &m->option_offset);
 	else if (m->extra_opts != NULL)
-		opts = xtables_merge_options(opts, NULL,
+		opts = xtables_merge_options(xt_params->orig_opts, opts,
 					     m->extra_opts, &m->option_offset);
+	else
+		return;
+
 	if (opts == NULL)
 		xtables_error(OTHER_PROBLEM, "Can't alloc memory");
 	xt_params->opts = opts;
@@ -332,11 +335,16 @@ static void ebt_load_watcher(const char *name)
 	xs_init_target(watcher);
 
 	if (watcher->x6_options != NULL)
-		opts = xtables_options_xfrm(opts, NULL, watcher->x6_options,
+		opts = xtables_options_xfrm(xt_params->orig_opts, opts,
+					    watcher->x6_options,
 					    &watcher->option_offset);
 	else if (watcher->extra_opts != NULL)
-		opts = xtables_merge_options(opts, NULL, watcher->extra_opts,
+		opts = xtables_merge_options(xt_params->orig_opts, opts,
+					     watcher->extra_opts,
 					     &watcher->option_offset);
+	else
+		return;
+
 	if (opts == NULL)
 		xtables_error(OTHER_PROBLEM, "Can't alloc memory");
 	xt_params->opts = opts;
@@ -344,7 +352,6 @@ static void ebt_load_watcher(const char *name)
 
 static void ebt_load_match_extensions(void)
 {
-	xt_params->opts = ebt_original_options;
 	ebt_load_match("802_3");
 	ebt_load_match("arp");
 	ebt_load_match("ip");
@@ -358,10 +365,6 @@ static void ebt_load_match_extensions(void)
 
 	ebt_load_watcher("log");
 	ebt_load_watcher("nflog");
-
-	/* assign them back so do_parse() may
-	 * reset opts to orig_opts upon each call */
-	xt_params->orig_opts = xt_params->opts;
 }
 
 void ebt_add_match(struct xtables_match *m,
@@ -531,7 +534,6 @@ int nft_init_eb(struct nft_handle *h, const char *pname)
 
 void nft_fini_eb(struct nft_handle *h)
 {
-	struct option *opts = xt_params->opts;
 	struct xtables_match *match;
 	struct xtables_target *target;
 
@@ -542,8 +544,7 @@ void nft_fini_eb(struct nft_handle *h)
 		free(target->t);
 	}
 
-	if (opts != ebt_original_options)
-		free(opts);
+	free(xt_params->opts);
 
 	nft_fini(h);
 	xtables_fini();