From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: [PATCH net 07/11] nf_tables: nft_dynset: fix possible stateful expression memleak in error path
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:06:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260313150614.21177-8-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260313150614.21177-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
If cloning the second stateful expression in the element via GFP_ATOMIC
fails, then the first stateful expression remains in place without being
released.
unreferenced object (percpu) 0x607b97e9cab8 (size 16):
comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294931867
hex dump (first 16 bytes on cpu 3):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
backtrace (crc 0):
pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x453/0xd80
nft_counter_clone+0x9c/0x190 [nf_tables]
nft_expr_clone+0x8f/0x1b0 [nf_tables]
nft_dynset_new+0x2cb/0x5f0 [nf_tables]
nft_rhash_update+0x236/0x11c0 [nf_tables]
nft_dynset_eval+0x11f/0x670 [nf_tables]
nft_do_chain+0x253/0x1700 [nf_tables]
nft_do_chain_ipv4+0x18d/0x270 [nf_tables]
nf_hook_slow+0xaa/0x1e0
ip_local_deliver+0x209/0x330
Fixes: 563125a73ac3 ("netfilter: nftables: generalize set extension to support for several expressions")
Reported-by: Gurpreet Shergill <giki.shergill@proton.me>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 2 ++
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 4 ++--
net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c | 10 +++++++++-
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
index 6299af4ef423..ec8a8ec9c0aa 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
@@ -874,6 +874,8 @@ struct nft_elem_priv *nft_set_elem_init(const struct nft_set *set,
u64 timeout, u64 expiration, gfp_t gfp);
int nft_set_elem_expr_clone(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_set *set,
struct nft_expr *expr_array[]);
+void nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
+ struct nft_set_elem_expr *elem_expr);
void nft_set_elem_destroy(const struct nft_set *set,
const struct nft_elem_priv *elem_priv,
bool destroy_expr);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 4ccdd33cf133..9b1c8d0a35fb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -6744,8 +6744,8 @@ static void __nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
}
}
-static void nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
- struct nft_set_elem_expr *elem_expr)
+void nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
+ struct nft_set_elem_expr *elem_expr)
{
struct nft_expr *expr;
u32 size;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c b/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c
index 7807d8129664..9123277be03c 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c
@@ -30,18 +30,26 @@ static int nft_dynset_expr_setup(const struct nft_dynset *priv,
const struct nft_set_ext *ext)
{
struct nft_set_elem_expr *elem_expr = nft_set_ext_expr(ext);
+ struct nft_ctx ctx = {
+ .net = read_pnet(&priv->set->net),
+ .family = priv->set->table->family,
+ };
struct nft_expr *expr;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < priv->num_exprs; i++) {
expr = nft_setelem_expr_at(elem_expr, elem_expr->size);
if (nft_expr_clone(expr, priv->expr_array[i], GFP_ATOMIC) < 0)
- return -1;
+ goto err_out;
elem_expr->size += priv->expr_array[i]->ops->size;
}
return 0;
+err_out:
+ nft_set_elem_expr_destroy(&ctx, elem_expr);
+
+ return -1;
}
struct nft_elem_priv *nft_dynset_new(struct nft_set *set,
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-13 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 15:06 [PATCH net 00/11] netfilter: updates for net Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 01/11] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix use-after-free in ctnetlink_dump_exp_ct() Florian Westphal
2026-03-14 16:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 02/11] netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 03/11] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix Content-Length u32 truncation in sip_help_tcp() Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 04/11] netfilter: revert nft_set_rbtree: validate open interval overlap Florian Westphal
2026-03-16 8:14 ` [PATCH net 04/11] netfilter: revert nft_set_rbtree: validate open interval overlap: manual merge Matthieu Baerts
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 05/11] netfilter: nf_flow_table_ip: reset mac header before vlan push Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 06/11] netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_int() CONS case Florian Westphal
2026-03-14 16:12 ` [net,06/11] " Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-14 18:31 ` Florian Westphal
2026-03-14 22:16 ` Guanni Qu
2026-03-15 1:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-13 15:06 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 08/11] netfilter: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 09/11] netfilter: xt_CT: drop pending enqueued packets on template removal Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 10/11] netfilter: xt_time: use unsigned int for monthday bit shift Florian Westphal
2026-03-13 15:06 ` [PATCH net 11/11] netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: check for zero length in DecodeQ931() Florian Westphal
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