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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: [PATCH net 07/11] nf_tables: nft_dynset: fix possible stateful expression memleak in error path
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:06:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260313150614.21177-8-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260313150614.21177-1-fw@strlen.de>

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

If cloning the second stateful expression in the element via GFP_ATOMIC
fails, then the first stateful expression remains in place without being
released.

   unreferenced object (percpu) 0x607b97e9cab8 (size 16):
     comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294931867
     hex dump (first 16 bytes on cpu 3):
       00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
     backtrace (crc 0):
       pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x453/0xd80
       nft_counter_clone+0x9c/0x190 [nf_tables]
       nft_expr_clone+0x8f/0x1b0 [nf_tables]
       nft_dynset_new+0x2cb/0x5f0 [nf_tables]
       nft_rhash_update+0x236/0x11c0 [nf_tables]
       nft_dynset_eval+0x11f/0x670 [nf_tables]
       nft_do_chain+0x253/0x1700 [nf_tables]
       nft_do_chain_ipv4+0x18d/0x270 [nf_tables]
       nf_hook_slow+0xaa/0x1e0
       ip_local_deliver+0x209/0x330

Fixes: 563125a73ac3 ("netfilter: nftables: generalize set extension to support for several expressions")
Reported-by: Gurpreet Shergill <giki.shergill@proton.me>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
 include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h |  2 ++
 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c     |  4 ++--
 net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c        | 10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
index 6299af4ef423..ec8a8ec9c0aa 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
@@ -874,6 +874,8 @@ struct nft_elem_priv *nft_set_elem_init(const struct nft_set *set,
 					u64 timeout, u64 expiration, gfp_t gfp);
 int nft_set_elem_expr_clone(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_set *set,
 			    struct nft_expr *expr_array[]);
+void nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
+			       struct nft_set_elem_expr *elem_expr);
 void nft_set_elem_destroy(const struct nft_set *set,
 			  const struct nft_elem_priv *elem_priv,
 			  bool destroy_expr);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 4ccdd33cf133..9b1c8d0a35fb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -6744,8 +6744,8 @@ static void __nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 	}
 }
 
-static void nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
-				      struct nft_set_elem_expr *elem_expr)
+void nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
+			       struct nft_set_elem_expr *elem_expr)
 {
 	struct nft_expr *expr;
 	u32 size;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c b/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c
index 7807d8129664..9123277be03c 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c
@@ -30,18 +30,26 @@ static int nft_dynset_expr_setup(const struct nft_dynset *priv,
 				 const struct nft_set_ext *ext)
 {
 	struct nft_set_elem_expr *elem_expr = nft_set_ext_expr(ext);
+	struct nft_ctx ctx = {
+		.net	= read_pnet(&priv->set->net),
+		.family	= priv->set->table->family,
+	};
 	struct nft_expr *expr;
 	int i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < priv->num_exprs; i++) {
 		expr = nft_setelem_expr_at(elem_expr, elem_expr->size);
 		if (nft_expr_clone(expr, priv->expr_array[i], GFP_ATOMIC) < 0)
-			return -1;
+			goto err_out;
 
 		elem_expr->size += priv->expr_array[i]->ops->size;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
+err_out:
+	nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(&ctx, elem_expr);
+
+	return -1;
 }
 
 struct nft_elem_priv *nft_dynset_new(struct nft_set *set,
-- 
2.52.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-13 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-13 15:06 [PATCH net 00/11] netfilter: updates for net Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 01/11] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix use-after-free in ctnetlink_dump_exp_ct() Florian Westphal
2026-03-14 16:20   ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 02/11] netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 03/11] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix Content-Length u32 truncation in sip_help_tcp() Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 04/11] netfilter: revert nft_set_rbtree: validate open interval overlap Florian Westphal
2026-03-16  8:14   ` [PATCH net 04/11] netfilter: revert nft_set_rbtree: validate open interval overlap: manual merge Matthieu Baerts
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 05/11] netfilter: nf_flow_table_ip: reset mac header before vlan push Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 06/11] netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_int() CONS case Florian Westphal
2026-03-14 16:12   ` [net,06/11] " Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-14 18:31     ` Florian Westphal
2026-03-14 22:16       ` Guanni Qu
2026-03-15  1:23         ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-13 15:06 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 08/11] netfilter: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 09/11] netfilter: xt_CT: drop pending enqueued packets on template removal Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 10/11] netfilter: xt_time: use unsigned int for monthday bit shift Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 11/11] netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: check for zero length in DecodeQ931() Florian Westphal

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