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
next 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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