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From: Aohan Mei <ljp1205831794@gmail.com>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de, phil@nwl.cc,
	coreteam@netfilter.org, Aohan Mei <henrymei@tencent.com>,
	TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@tencent.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_tables: skip expired catchall elements in dedup walk
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 2026 20:32:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908123252.1162896-1-ljp1205831794@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Aohan Mei <henrymei@tencent.com>

nft_setelem_catchall_insert() looks up duplicates with
nft_set_elem_active() only, while nft_set_catchall_lookup() and the
dump path additionally skip expired and dead elements.

Once a catchall element with a timeout expires, this predicate drift
makes it invisible to userspace dumps, yet it still blocks
re-insertion: with NLM_F_EXCL the request fails with -EEXIST, and
without it the request reports success but silently inserts nothing.
The stale entry only goes away when the (user-tunable) gc interval
elapses, so the catchall rule may silently stop matching for an
arbitrarily long time after its first expiration.

Align the dedup walk with the lookup and dump predicates: only an
element that is active, not expired and not dead counts as a
duplicate.

Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@tencent.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aaa31047a6d2 ("netfilter: nftables: add catch-all set element support")
Assisted-by: CodeBuddy:Kimi-K3
Signed-off-by: Aohan Mei <henrymei@tencent.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 765a92fa90d6..6458ee26dcd9 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -6995,7 +6995,9 @@ static int nft_setelem_catchall_insert(const struct net *net,
 
 	list_for_each_entry(catchall, &set->catchall_list, list) {
 		ext = nft_set_elem_ext(set, catchall->elem);
-		if (nft_set_elem_active(ext, genmask)) {
+		if (nft_set_elem_active(ext, genmask) &&
+		    !nft_set_elem_expired(ext) &&
+		    !nft_set_elem_is_dead(ext)) {
 			*priv = catchall->elem;
 			return -EEXIST;
 		}
-- 
2.43.7


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-08 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-08 12:32 Aohan Mei [this message]
2026-09-08 23:22 ` [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_tables: skip expired catchall elements in dedup walk Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-09-08 23:31   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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