From: Qi Tang <tpluszz77@gmail.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Qi Tang <tpluszz77@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack_helper: pass helper to expect cleanup
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260329165036.240932-1-tpluszz77@gmail.com> (raw)
nf_conntrack_helper_unregister() calls nf_ct_expect_iterate_destroy()
to remove expectations belonging to the helper being unregistered.
However, it passes NULL instead of the helper pointer as the data
argument, so expect_iter_me() never matches any expectation and all
of them survive the cleanup.
After unregister returns, nfnl_cthelper_del() frees the helper
object immediately. Subsequent expectation dumps or packet-driven
init_conntrack() calls then dereference the freed exp->helper,
causing a use-after-free.
Pass the actual helper pointer so expectations referencing it are
properly destroyed before the helper object is freed.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in string+0x38f/0x430
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888003b14d20 by task poc/103
Call Trace:
string+0x38f/0x430
vsnprintf+0x3cc/0x1170
seq_printf+0x17a/0x240
exp_seq_show+0x2e5/0x560
seq_read_iter+0x419/0x1280
proc_reg_read+0x1ac/0x270
vfs_read+0x179/0x930
ksys_read+0xef/0x1c0
Freed by task 103:
The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of
freed 192-byte region [ffff888003b14d00, ffff888003b14dc0)
Fixes: ac7b84839003 ("netfilter: expect: add and use nf_ct_expect_iterate helpers")
Signed-off-by: Qi Tang <tpluszz77@gmail.com>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
index 1b330ba6613b..a715304a53d8 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(struct nf_conntrack_helper *me)
*/
synchronize_rcu();
- nf_ct_expect_iterate_destroy(expect_iter_me, NULL);
+ nf_ct_expect_iterate_destroy(expect_iter_me, me);
nf_ct_iterate_destroy(unhelp, me);
/* nf_ct_iterate_destroy() does an unconditional synchronize_rcu() as
--
2.43.0
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2026-03-31 13:40 ` [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack_helper: pass helper to expect cleanup Phil Sutter
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