From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev, stable@kernel.org,
TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@tencent.com>,
Fourie Zhang <fouriezhang@tencent.com>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: [PATCH 7.2 46/71] netfilter: nf_tables: dont queue packet path object notifications
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:34:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831133401.626430465@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260831133359.055927882@linuxfoundation.org>
7.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Fourie Zhang <littleddfu@gmail.com>
commit 7904b94768e983bcb2be34a8d6d1f3450f5b838b upstream.
All file:line references below are against v7.2-rc4 (ac5b0e5651b1). The
trace was captured on 7.2.0-rc6-kasan72rc6 (075b74841bd0), where the same
lines apply.
nft_obj_notify() is exported and reached from the packet path. Its only
in-tree caller is nft_quota_obj_eval() (net/netfilter/nft_quota.c:68),
which notifies with GFP_ATOMIC while evaluating a rule for a transiting
packet, holding no mutex.
Since commit 67cc570edaa0 ("netfilter: nf_tables: coalesce multiple
notifications into one skbuff") that notification is no longer sent
immediately. __nft_obj_notify() queues it onto nft_net->notify_list via
nft_notify_enqueue() (net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1211), which is a bare
list_add_tail(). notify_list has no lock of its own
(include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1951), it is serialised by commit_mutex:
the six other enqueue sites all run inside a netlink transaction, and the
drain in nft_commit_notify() (net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:10746) does
list_del() + kfree_skb() from nf_tables_commit() with commit_mutex held.
Sending packets through a chain that references a depleted quota object
therefore races an unlocked list_add_tail() against list_del() +
kfree_skb() on another CPU. The WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, new) in __list_add()
then stores through an sk_buff that has already been freed:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __nft_obj_notify+0x2c5/0x2d0
Write of size 8 at addr ff110001047183c0 by task poc/76
CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 76 Comm: poc Tainted: G W 7.2.0-rc6-kasan72rc6 #4
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__nft_obj_notify (include/linux/list.h:164 include/linux/list.h:191
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1211
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8743)
nft_quota_obj_eval (net/netfilter/nft_quota.c:68)
nft_do_chain_inet
nf_hook_slow
__ip_local_out
ip_push_pending_frames
udp_send_skb
udp_sendmsg
__x64_sys_sendto
Allocated by task 77:
__alloc_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:704)
__nft_obj_notify (include/net/netlink.h:1055
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8731)
nft_quota_obj_eval (net/netfilter/nft_quota.c:68)
nft_do_chain
Freed by task 79:
nf_tables_commit (include/linux/skbuff.h:1332
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:10759
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:11185)
nfnetlink_rcv_batch (net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:574)
netlink_unicast
netlink_sendmsg
The buggy address belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 232
Queueing from the packet path is wrong even leaving the race aside:
notify_list is only drained by nft_commit_notify() from nf_tables_commit()
(:11185), so a notification enqueued outside a transaction is not sent
until some later netlink batch commits, if one ever does.
The gfp argument that nft_obj_notify() still takes is a leftover of the
pre-67cc570edaa0 behaviour, where this path called nfnetlink_send()
directly. Restore that: split the message construction out into
nft_obj_notify_alloc() and let each caller decide what to do with the skb.
nft_obj_notify(), the exported one reached from the packet path, sends it
straight away; nf_tables_obj_notify(), which runs under commit_mutex, keeps
queueing it, so transaction notifications are still coalesced.
Fixes: 67cc570edaa0 ("netfilter: nf_tables: coalesce multiple notifications into one skbuff")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@tencent.com>
Assisted-by: tencentos-corvus-ai:kimi-k3
Signed-off-by: Fourie Zhang <fouriezhang@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -8715,18 +8715,17 @@ static int nf_tables_delobj(struct sk_bu
return nft_delobj(&ctx, obj);
}
-static void
-__nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
- struct nft_object *obj, u32 portid, u32 seq, int event,
- u16 flags, int family, int report, gfp_t gfp)
+static struct sk_buff *
+nft_obj_notify_alloc(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
+ struct nft_object *obj, u32 portid, u32 seq, int event,
+ u16 flags, int family, int report, gfp_t gfp)
{
- struct nftables_pernet *nft_net = nft_pernet(net);
struct sk_buff *skb;
int err;
if (!report &&
!nfnetlink_has_listeners(net, NFNLGRP_NFTABLES))
- return;
+ return NULL;
skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, gfp);
if (skb == NULL)
@@ -8740,10 +8739,10 @@ __nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, const
goto err;
}
- nft_notify_enqueue(skb, report, &nft_net->notify_list);
- return;
+ return skb;
err:
nfnetlink_set_err(net, portid, NFNLGRP_NFTABLES, -ENOBUFS);
+ return NULL;
}
void nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
@@ -8752,6 +8751,7 @@ void nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, con
{
char *buf = kasprintf(gfp, "%s:%u",
table->name, nft_base_seq(net));
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
audit_log_nfcfg(buf,
family,
@@ -8762,17 +8762,27 @@ void nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, con
gfp);
kfree(buf);
- __nft_obj_notify(net, table, obj, portid, seq, event,
- flags, family, report, gfp);
+ /* Called from the packet path, holding no mutex: notify_list is
+ * serialised by commit_mutex, so send this notification directly.
+ */
+ skb = nft_obj_notify_alloc(net, table, obj, portid, seq, event,
+ flags, family, report, gfp);
+ if (skb)
+ nfnetlink_send(skb, net, portid, NFNLGRP_NFTABLES, report, gfp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nft_obj_notify);
static void nf_tables_obj_notify(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
struct nft_object *obj, int event)
{
- __nft_obj_notify(ctx->net, ctx->table, obj, ctx->portid,
- ctx->seq, event, ctx->flags, ctx->family,
- ctx->report, GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct nftables_pernet *nft_net = nft_pernet(ctx->net);
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+ skb = nft_obj_notify_alloc(ctx->net, ctx->table, obj, ctx->portid,
+ ctx->seq, event, ctx->flags, ctx->family,
+ ctx->report, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (skb)
+ nft_notify_enqueue(skb, ctx->report, &nft_net->notify_list);
}
/*
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