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 5/7] netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 18:35:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260408163512.30537-6-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260408163512.30537-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Tuan Do <tuan@calif.io>
nft_ct_timeout_obj_destroy() frees the timeout object with kfree()
immediately after nf_ct_untimeout(), without waiting for an RCU grace
period. Concurrent packet processing on other CPUs may still hold
RCU-protected references to the timeout object obtained via
rcu_dereference() in nf_ct_timeout_data().
Add an rcu_head to struct nf_ct_timeout and use kfree_rcu() to defer
freeing until after an RCU grace period, matching the approach already
used in nfnetlink_cttimeout.c.
KASAN report:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nf_conntrack_tcp_packet+0x1381/0x29d0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881035fe19c by task exploit/80
Call Trace:
nf_conntrack_tcp_packet+0x1381/0x29d0
nf_conntrack_in+0x612/0x8b0
nf_hook_slow+0x70/0x100
__ip_local_out+0x1b2/0x210
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x722/0x1580
__sys_sendto+0x2d8/0x320
Allocated by task 75:
nft_ct_timeout_obj_init+0xf6/0x290
nft_obj_init+0x107/0x1b0
nf_tables_newobj+0x680/0x9c0
nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xc29/0xe00
Freed by task 26:
nft_obj_destroy+0x3f/0xa0
nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x51c/0x5c0
process_one_work+0x2c4/0x5a0
Fixes: 7e0b2b57f01d ("netfilter: nft_ct: add ct timeout support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tuan Do <tuan@calif.io>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h | 1 +
net/netfilter/nft_ct.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h
index 9fdaba911de6..3a66d4abb6d6 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
struct nf_ct_timeout {
__u16 l3num;
const struct nf_conntrack_l4proto *l4proto;
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
char data[];
};
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_ct.c b/net/netfilter/nft_ct.c
index 128ff8155b5d..04c74ccf9b84 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_ct.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_ct.c
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ static void nft_ct_timeout_obj_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
nf_queue_nf_hook_drop(ctx->net);
nf_ct_untimeout(ctx->net, timeout);
nf_ct_netns_put(ctx->net, ctx->family);
- kfree(priv->timeout);
+ kfree_rcu(priv->timeout, rcu);
}
static int nft_ct_timeout_obj_dump(struct sk_buff *skb,
--
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 ` [PATCH net 1/7] ipvs: fix NULL deref in ip_vs_add_service error path Florian Westphal
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 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
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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