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 1/7] ipvs: fix NULL deref in ip_vs_add_service error path
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 18:35:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260408163512.30537-2-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260408163512.30537-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
When ip_vs_bind_scheduler() succeeds in ip_vs_add_service(), the local
variable sched is set to NULL. If ip_vs_start_estimator() subsequently
fails, the out_err cleanup calls ip_vs_unbind_scheduler(svc, sched)
with sched == NULL. ip_vs_unbind_scheduler() passes the cur_sched NULL
check (because svc->scheduler was set by the successful bind) but then
dereferences the NULL sched parameter at sched->done_service, causing a
kernel panic at offset 0x30 from NULL.
Oops: general protection fault, [..] [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037]
RIP: 0010:ip_vs_unbind_scheduler (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c:69)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ip_vs_add_service.isra.0 (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:1500)
do_ip_vs_set_ctl (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:2809)
nf_setsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:102)
[..]
Fix by simply not clearing the local sched variable after a successful
bind. ip_vs_unbind_scheduler() already detects whether a scheduler is
installed via svc->scheduler, and keeping sched non-NULL ensures the
error path passes the correct pointer to both ip_vs_unbind_scheduler()
and ip_vs_scheduler_put().
While the bug is older, the problem popups in more recent kernels (6.2),
when the new error path is taken after the ip_vs_start_estimator() call.
Fixes: 705dd3444081 ("ipvs: use kthreads for stats estimation")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index 35642de2a0fe..2aaf50f52c8e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
@@ -1452,7 +1452,6 @@ ip_vs_add_service(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_service_user_kern *u,
ret = ip_vs_bind_scheduler(svc, sched);
if (ret)
goto out_err;
- sched = NULL;
}
ret = ip_vs_start_estimator(ipvs, &svc->stats);
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-08 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-08 16:35 [PATCH net 0/7] netfilter updates for net Florian Westphal
2026-04-08 16:35 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-04-08 16:35 ` [PATCH net 2/7] netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator Florian Westphal
2026-04-08 16:35 ` [PATCH net 3/7] netfilter: xt_multiport: validate range encoding in checkentry Florian Westphal
2026-04-08 16:35 ` [PATCH net 4/7] netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for all packets Florian Westphal
2026-04-08 16:35 ` [PATCH net 5/7] netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy Florian Westphal
2026-04-08 16:35 ` [PATCH net 6/7] netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: make hash table per queue Florian Westphal
2026-04-08 16:35 ` [PATCH net 7/7] selftests: nft_queue.sh: add a parallel stress test Florian Westphal
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