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From: Li hongliang <1468888505@139.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org
Cc: patches@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kadlec@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, giki.shergill@proton.me
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] nf_tables: nft_dynset: fix possible stateful expression memleak in error path
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:21:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260417082124.3253986-1-1468888505@139.com> (raw)

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

[ Upstream commit 0548a13b5a145b16e4da0628b5936baf35f51b43 ]

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>
[ Minor conflict resolved. ]
Signed-off-by: Li hongliang <1468888505@139.com>
---
 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 38c74f9fcce2..dafa0a32e6e1 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
@@ -838,6 +838,8 @@ void *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, void *elem,
 			  bool destroy_expr);
 void nf_tables_set_elem_destroy(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index fb3d529ebf5a..0c4224282638 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -6025,8 +6025,8 @@ 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 953aba871f45..5f58ac874005 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;
 }
 
 static void *nft_dynset_new(struct nft_set *set, const struct nft_expr *expr,
-- 
2.34.1



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