[PATCH 6.18 067/333] netfilter: nf_tables: always walk all pending catchall elements

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-17T17:12:29Z

From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

[ Upstream commit 7cb9a23d7ae40a702577d3d8bacb7026f04ac2a9 ]

During transaction processing we might have more than one catchall element:
1 live catchall element and 1 pending element that is coming as part of the
new batch.

If the map holding the catchall elements is also going away, its
required to toggle all catchall elements and not just the first viable
candidate.

Otherwise, we get:
WARNING: ./include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1281 at nft_data_release+0xb7/0xe0 [nf_tables], CPU#2: nft/1404
RIP: 0010:nft_data_release+0xb7/0xe0 [nf_tables]
[..]
__nft_set_elem_destroy+0x106/0x380 [nf_tables]
nf_tables_abort_release+0x348/0x8d0 [nf_tables]
nf_tables_abort+0xcf2/0x3ac0 [nf_tables]
nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x9c9/0x20e0 [..]

Fixes: 628bd3e49cba ("netfilter: nf_tables: drop map element references from preparation phase")
Reported-by: Yiming Qian <yimingqian591@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index ed1d639fe34d7..b6a575ec33159 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -828,7 +828,6 @@ static void nft_map_catchall_deactivate(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,

nft_set_elem_change_active(ctx->net, set, ext);
nft_setelem_data_deactivate(ctx->net, set, catchall->elem);
- break;
}
}

@@ -5928,7 +5927,6 @@ static void nft_map_catchall_activate(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,

nft_clear(ctx->net, ext);
nft_setelem_data_activate(ctx->net, set, catchall->elem);
- break;
}
}

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