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[68.48.65.54]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 00721157ae682-7fcd3465c7csm55945147b3.39.2026.06.17.14.57.10 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:57:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Bommarito To: Jamal Hadi Salim , Jiri Pirko Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH net] net/sched: act_ct: fix nf_connlabels leak on two error paths Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:57:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20260617215708.1115818-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit tcf_ct_fill_params() calls nf_connlabels_get() (setting put_labels) when TCA_CT_LABELS is present, but two later error sites use a bare return instead of "goto err", skipping the err: nf_connlabels_put() cleanup. They also precede the "p->put_labels = put_labels" assignment, so the tcf_ct_params_free() fallback does not release the count either. Each failed RTM_NEWACTION on these paths leaks one nf_connlabels reference: net->ct.labels_used is incremented and never released. The action is reachable with CAP_NET_ADMIN over the netns, i.e. from an unprivileged user namespace on default-userns kernels. Impact: an unprivileged user with CAP_NET_ADMIN over a network namespace (e.g. via user namespaces) leaks one nf_connlabels reference per failed RTM_NEWACTION on the two error paths; net->ct.labels_used is never released. The err: label is safe to reach from both sites: p->tmpl is still NULL there (kzalloc'd, not yet assigned) and nf_ct_put(NULL) is a no-op, so no inline release is needed. Fixes: 70f06c115bcc ("sched: act_ct: switch to per-action label counting") Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito --- Testing: refcount/counter leak (CWE-772); no sanitizer for this class, so the oracle is the nf_connlabels accounting counter net->ct.labels_used. Reproduction (UML, before/after, same trigger): CONFIG_NET_ACT_CT=y, NF_CONNTRACK_LABELS=y, NF_CONNTRACK_ZONES=n (forces the zone-disabled path). A raw RTM_NEWACTION trigger adds "action ct label 0x1/0x1 zone 1" 20 times; each returns -EOPNOTSUPP. stock: net->ct.labels_used climbs 1,2,...,20 (get, then bare return, no put) -- 20 leaked counts, never recovered. patched: counter stays balanced (get then goto err -> put); baseline. Control: the same loop without "label" (no nf_connlabels_get) leaves the counter unchanged on both trees -- the trigger reached the labels path and the synthesis is not itself the cause. Conditions: reachable via RTM_NEWACTION with CAP_NET_ADMIN over the netns, i.e. an unprivileged user in a fresh user+net namespace on default-userns distros. The easy path needs CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ZONES=n; the nf_ct_tmpl_alloc ENOMEM path leaks on any config under memory pressure. Mitigations: restrict unprivileged user namespaces; otherwise none short of the fix. Harness (trigger.c, init) available on request. net/sched/act_ct.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sched/act_ct.c b/net/sched/act_ct.c index 6158e13c98d35..f5866a364a74a 100644 --- a/net/sched/act_ct.c +++ b/net/sched/act_ct.c @@ -1295,7 +1295,8 @@ static int tcf_ct_fill_params(struct net *net, if (tb[TCA_CT_ZONE]) { if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ZONES)) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Conntrack zones isn't enabled."); - return -EOPNOTSUPP; + err = -EOPNOTSUPP; + goto err; } tcf_ct_set_key_val(tb, @@ -1308,7 +1309,8 @@ static int tcf_ct_fill_params(struct net *net, tmpl = nf_ct_tmpl_alloc(net, &zone, GFP_KERNEL); if (!tmpl) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Failed to allocate conntrack template"); - return -ENOMEM; + err = -ENOMEM; + goto err; } p->tmpl = tmpl; if (tb[TCA_CT_HELPER_NAME]) { -- 2.53.0