* [PATCH 5.10.y] net/sched: act_ct: fix ref leak when switching zones
@ 2026-04-21 13:24 Vasiliy Kovalev
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From: Vasiliy Kovalev @ 2026-04-21 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable
Cc: David S . Miller, Jamal Hadi Salim, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner,
netdev, lvc-project, kovalev
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
commit bcb74e132a76ce0502bb33d5b65533a4ed72d159 upstream.
When switching zones or network namespaces without doing a ct clear in
between, it is now leaking a reference to the old ct entry. That's
because tcf_ct_skb_nfct_cached() returns false and
tcf_ct_flow_table_lookup() may simply overwrite it.
The fix is to, as the ct entry is not reusable, free it already at
tcf_ct_skb_nfct_cached().
Reported-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Fixes: 2f131de361f6 ("net/sched: act_ct: Fix flow table lookup after ct clear or switching zones")
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[ kovalev: bp to fix CVE-2022-49183; used nf_conntrack_put(&ct->ct_general)
instead of nf_ct_put(ct) due to the older kernel not yet having the
conversion from the indirect call (see upstream commit 408bdcfce8df) ]
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kovalev <kovalev@altlinux.org>
---
net/sched/act_ct.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/act_ct.c b/net/sched/act_ct.c
index d9748c917a50..d75f4b2b97da 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ct.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ct.c
@@ -589,22 +589,25 @@ static bool tcf_ct_skb_nfct_cached(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (!ct)
return false;
if (!net_eq(net, read_pnet(&ct->ct_net)))
- return false;
+ goto drop_ct;
if (nf_ct_zone(ct)->id != zone_id)
- return false;
+ goto drop_ct;
/* Force conntrack entry direction. */
if (force && CTINFO2DIR(ctinfo) != IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL) {
if (nf_ct_is_confirmed(ct))
nf_ct_kill(ct);
- nf_conntrack_put(&ct->ct_general);
- nf_ct_set(skb, NULL, IP_CT_UNTRACKED);
-
- return false;
+ goto drop_ct;
}
return true;
+
+drop_ct:
+ nf_conntrack_put(&ct->ct_general);
+ nf_ct_set(skb, NULL, IP_CT_UNTRACKED);
+
+ return false;
}
/* Trim the skb to the length specified by the IP/IPv6 header,
--
2.50.1
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