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* [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack_helper: pass helper to expect cleanup
@ 2026-03-29 16:50 Qi Tang
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From: Qi Tang @ 2026-03-29 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal
  Cc: Phil Sutter, netfilter-devel, coreteam, netdev, Qi Tang

nf_conntrack_helper_unregister() calls nf_ct_expect_iterate_destroy()
to remove expectations belonging to the helper being unregistered.
However, it passes NULL instead of the helper pointer as the data
argument, so expect_iter_me() never matches any expectation and all
of them survive the cleanup.

After unregister returns, nfnl_cthelper_del() frees the helper
object immediately.  Subsequent expectation dumps or packet-driven
init_conntrack() calls then dereference the freed exp->helper,
causing a use-after-free.

Pass the actual helper pointer so expectations referencing it are
properly destroyed before the helper object is freed.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in string+0x38f/0x430
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff888003b14d20 by task poc/103
  Call Trace:
   string+0x38f/0x430
   vsnprintf+0x3cc/0x1170
   seq_printf+0x17a/0x240
   exp_seq_show+0x2e5/0x560
   seq_read_iter+0x419/0x1280
   proc_reg_read+0x1ac/0x270
   vfs_read+0x179/0x930
   ksys_read+0xef/0x1c0
  Freed by task 103:
  The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of
   freed 192-byte region [ffff888003b14d00, ffff888003b14dc0)

Fixes: ac7b84839003 ("netfilter: expect: add and use nf_ct_expect_iterate helpers")
Signed-off-by: Qi Tang <tpluszz77@gmail.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
index 1b330ba6613b..a715304a53d8 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(struct nf_conntrack_helper *me)
 	 */
 	synchronize_rcu();
 
-	nf_ct_expect_iterate_destroy(expect_iter_me, NULL);
+	nf_ct_expect_iterate_destroy(expect_iter_me, me);
 	nf_ct_iterate_destroy(unhelp, me);
 
 	/* nf_ct_iterate_destroy() does an unconditional synchronize_rcu() as
-- 
2.43.0


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