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[45.78.65.84]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 00721157ae682-81fb8a89719sm6356597b3.27.2026.07.30.01.30.11 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:30:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Chengfeng Ye To: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Florian Westphal , Phil Sutter , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , John Fastabend , Stanislav Fomichev , Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi , Lorenzo Bianconi Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, Chengfeng Ye Subject: [PATCH bpf v2] bpf: Fix netns reference imbalance in conntrack kfuncs Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:29:58 +0800 Message-ID: <20260730082958.2065194-1-nicoyip.dev@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20260729163141.213611-1-nicoyip.dev@gmail.com> References: <20260729163141.213611-1-nicoyip.dev@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The opts argument of the BPF conntrack kfuncs can point to a shared map value. __bpf_nf_ct_lookup() and __bpf_nf_ct_alloc_entry() read opts->netns_id separately when acquiring and releasing the network namespace reference. The reference imbalance can occur as follows: CPU 0 CPU 1 read opts->netns_id (-1) skip get_net_ns_by_id() write opts->netns_id (id) read opts->netns_id (id) put_net(net) /* no matching get */ The reverse transition leaks the reference. Repeating the unmatched put can destroy a live namespace and crash later users. The kernel reported: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000e8-0x00000000000000ef] RIP: 0010:bpf_prog_test_run_xdp+0x52c/0x1700 Call Trace: __sys_bpf+0x1662/0x50c0 __x64_sys_bpf+0x73/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Snapshot every input field of opts with READ_ONCE() before validating or using it. The netns_id snapshot keeps the namespace get/put pair balanced, while the other snapshots keep the remaining options from changing partway through an invocation. The individual reads can still observe an inconsistent combination during a concurrent update, but each selected field value remains stable for that invocation. Fixes: aed8ee7feb44 ("net: netfilter: Deduplicate code in bpf_{xdp,skb}_ct_lookup") Fixes: d7e79c97c00c ("net: netfilter: Add kfuncs to allocate and insert CT") Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye --- Changes in v2: - Snapshot l4proto, ct_zone_id, ct_zone_dir, and the reserved bytes in addition to netns_id, as requested in review. - Rebase onto current bpf/master. Please queue this fix for stable kernels. net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bpf.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bpf.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bpf.c index f98d1d4b42c3..c3395cb98c00 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bpf.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bpf.c @@ -122,42 +122,56 @@ __bpf_nf_ct_alloc_entry(struct net *net, struct bpf_sock_tuple *bpf_tuple, struct nf_conntrack_tuple otuple, rtuple; struct nf_conntrack_zone ct_zone; struct nf_conn *ct; + u16 ct_zone_id; + s32 netns_id; + u8 ct_zone_dir = 0; + u8 reserved[3] = {}; + u8 l4proto; int err; if (!(opts_len == NF_BPF_CT_OPTS_SZ || opts_len == 12)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + + netns_id = READ_ONCE(opts->netns_id); + l4proto = READ_ONCE(opts->l4proto); + ct_zone_id = READ_ONCE(opts->ct_zone_id); if (opts_len == NF_BPF_CT_OPTS_SZ) { - if (opts->reserved[0] || opts->reserved[1] || opts->reserved[2]) + ct_zone_dir = READ_ONCE(opts->ct_zone_dir); + reserved[0] = READ_ONCE(opts->reserved[0]); + reserved[1] = READ_ONCE(opts->reserved[1]); + reserved[2] = READ_ONCE(opts->reserved[2]); + if (reserved[0] || reserved[1] || reserved[2]) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } else { - if (opts->ct_zone_id) + if (ct_zone_id) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } - if (unlikely(opts->netns_id < BPF_F_CURRENT_NETNS)) + if (unlikely(netns_id < BPF_F_CURRENT_NETNS)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - err = bpf_nf_ct_tuple_parse(bpf_tuple, tuple_len, opts->l4proto, + err = bpf_nf_ct_tuple_parse(bpf_tuple, tuple_len, l4proto, IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL, &otuple); if (err < 0) return ERR_PTR(err); - err = bpf_nf_ct_tuple_parse(bpf_tuple, tuple_len, opts->l4proto, + err = bpf_nf_ct_tuple_parse(bpf_tuple, tuple_len, l4proto, IP_CT_DIR_REPLY, &rtuple); if (err < 0) return ERR_PTR(err); - if (opts->netns_id >= 0) { - net = get_net_ns_by_id(net, opts->netns_id); + if (netns_id >= 0) { + net = get_net_ns_by_id(net, netns_id); if (unlikely(!net)) return ERR_PTR(-ENONET); } if (opts_len == NF_BPF_CT_OPTS_SZ) { - if (opts->ct_zone_dir == 0) - opts->ct_zone_dir = NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_DIR; - nf_ct_zone_init(&ct_zone, - opts->ct_zone_id, opts->ct_zone_dir, 0); + if (ct_zone_dir == 0) { + ct_zone_dir = NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_DIR; + opts->ct_zone_dir = ct_zone_dir; + } + nf_ct_zone_init(&ct_zone, ct_zone_id, ct_zone_dir, 0); } else { ct_zone = nf_ct_zone_dflt; } @@ -171,7 +185,7 @@ __bpf_nf_ct_alloc_entry(struct net *net, struct bpf_sock_tuple *bpf_tuple, __nf_ct_set_timeout(ct, timeout * HZ); out: - if (opts->netns_id >= 0) + if (netns_id >= 0) put_net(net); return ct; @@ -186,46 +200,60 @@ static struct nf_conn *__bpf_nf_ct_lookup(struct net *net, struct nf_conntrack_tuple tuple; struct nf_conntrack_zone ct_zone; struct nf_conn *ct; + u16 ct_zone_id; + s32 netns_id; + u8 ct_zone_dir = 0; + u8 reserved[3] = {}; + u8 l4proto; int err; if (!opts || !bpf_tuple) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); if (!(opts_len == NF_BPF_CT_OPTS_SZ || opts_len == 12)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + + netns_id = READ_ONCE(opts->netns_id); + l4proto = READ_ONCE(opts->l4proto); + ct_zone_id = READ_ONCE(opts->ct_zone_id); if (opts_len == NF_BPF_CT_OPTS_SZ) { - if (opts->reserved[0] || opts->reserved[1] || opts->reserved[2]) + ct_zone_dir = READ_ONCE(opts->ct_zone_dir); + reserved[0] = READ_ONCE(opts->reserved[0]); + reserved[1] = READ_ONCE(opts->reserved[1]); + reserved[2] = READ_ONCE(opts->reserved[2]); + if (reserved[0] || reserved[1] || reserved[2]) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } else { - if (opts->ct_zone_id) + if (ct_zone_id) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } - if (unlikely(opts->l4proto != IPPROTO_TCP && opts->l4proto != IPPROTO_UDP)) + if (unlikely(l4proto != IPPROTO_TCP && l4proto != IPPROTO_UDP)) return ERR_PTR(-EPROTO); - if (unlikely(opts->netns_id < BPF_F_CURRENT_NETNS)) + if (unlikely(netns_id < BPF_F_CURRENT_NETNS)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - err = bpf_nf_ct_tuple_parse(bpf_tuple, tuple_len, opts->l4proto, + err = bpf_nf_ct_tuple_parse(bpf_tuple, tuple_len, l4proto, IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL, &tuple); if (err < 0) return ERR_PTR(err); - if (opts->netns_id >= 0) { - net = get_net_ns_by_id(net, opts->netns_id); + if (netns_id >= 0) { + net = get_net_ns_by_id(net, netns_id); if (unlikely(!net)) return ERR_PTR(-ENONET); } if (opts_len == NF_BPF_CT_OPTS_SZ) { - if (opts->ct_zone_dir == 0) - opts->ct_zone_dir = NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_DIR; - nf_ct_zone_init(&ct_zone, - opts->ct_zone_id, opts->ct_zone_dir, 0); + if (ct_zone_dir == 0) { + ct_zone_dir = NF_CT_DEFAULT_ZONE_DIR; + opts->ct_zone_dir = ct_zone_dir; + } + nf_ct_zone_init(&ct_zone, ct_zone_id, ct_zone_dir, 0); } else { ct_zone = nf_ct_zone_dflt; } hash = nf_conntrack_find_get(net, &ct_zone, &tuple); - if (opts->netns_id >= 0) + if (netns_id >= 0) put_net(net); if (!hash) return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); -- 2.43.0