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From: "Jérémy Jean" <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: "Phil Sutter" <phil@nwl.cc>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Jérémy Jean" <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: reject expired interval ends
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2026 20:04:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005200404.3544062-2-Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr> (raw)

Consider two ranges in a netfilter verdict map:
* keys 10-19 accept packets, and
* keys 30-39 jump to chain 'victim'.
Now, delete the end marker at 20. The lookup array now uses element 30
as the first range's end, so an INTERVAL_END query for key 15 returns
element 30, including its jump verdict and chain pointer. This can make
KASAN reports a UAF after the GC releases reference chain for 30 that
has expired:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nft_verdict_dump+0xdd/0x110
  Read of size 8 at addr ff110000009dfb58 by task repro/50
  ...
  Call Trace:
  ...
   nft_verdict_dump+0xdd/0x110
   nft_data_dump+0x4d/0x80
   nf_tables_fill_setelem+0x30b/0x8a0
   ? __asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x60
   nf_tables_fill_setelem_info+0x1b0/0x200
   nft_get_set_elem+0x3fd/0x4b0
  ...
  Freed by task 24:
  ...
   kfree+0x1a5/0x280
   nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x2cb/0x520

Reject expired endpoints in nft_rbtree_get() before returning them.

Fixes: 2aa34191f06f ("netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: use binary search array in get command")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c b/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c
index 9894832..1fd9cbe 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c
@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ nft_rbtree_get(const struct net *net, const struct nft_set *set,
 	if (flags & NFT_SET_ELEM_INTERVAL_END) {
 		if (!interval->to)
 			return NULL;
+		if (nft_set_elem_expired(interval->to))
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 
 		rbe = container_of(interval->to, struct nft_rbtree_elem, ext);
 	} else {
-- 
2.47.3


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-05 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-05 20:04 Jérémy Jean [this message]
2026-10-05 21:20 ` [PATCH nf] netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: reject expired interval ends Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-10-05 21:42   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-10-05 23:05 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-10-06 13:17   ` Jérémy Jean
2026-10-07 22:19     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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