From: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
To: pablo@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de, phil@nwl.cc,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, imv4bel@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH net] netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix entry leak in bridge verdict error path
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 02:24:06 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaxfNvmoiil_UhY-@v4bel> (raw)
nfqnl_recv_verdict() calls find_dequeue_entry() to remove the queue
entry from the queue data structures, taking ownership of the entry.
For PF_BRIDGE packets, it then calls nfqa_parse_bridge() to parse VLAN
attributes. If nfqa_parse_bridge() returns an error (e.g. NFQA_VLAN
present but NFQA_VLAN_TCI missing), the function returns immediately
without freeing the dequeued entry or its sk_buff.
This leaks the nf_queue_entry, its associated sk_buff, and all held
references (net_device refcounts, struct net refcount). Repeated
triggering exhausts kernel memory.
Fix this by dropping the entry via nfqnl_reinject() with NF_DROP verdict
on the error path, consistent with other error handling in this file.
Fixes: 8d45ff22f1b4 ("netfilter: bridge: nf queue verdict to use NFQA_VLAN and NFQA_L2HDR")
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
index 7f5248b5f1ee..47f7f62906e2 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
@@ -1546,8 +1546,10 @@ static int nfqnl_recv_verdict(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nfnl_info *info,
if (entry->state.pf == PF_BRIDGE) {
err = nfqa_parse_bridge(entry, nfqa);
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err < 0) {
+ nfqnl_reinject(entry, NF_DROP);
return err;
+ }
}
if (nfqa[NFQA_PAYLOAD]) {
--
2.43.0
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