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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: [PATCH nf] netfilter: sync with packet rx also after removing queue entries
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 2015 23:38:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444340287-8779-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de> (raw)

We need to sync packet rx again after flushing the queue entries.
Otherwise, the following race could happen:

cpu1: nf_unregister_hook(H) called, H unliked from lists, calls
synchronize_net() to wait for packet rx completion.

Problem is that while no new nf_queue_entry structs that use H can be
allocated, another CPU might receive a verdict from userspace just before
cpu1 calls nf_queue_nf_hook_drop to remove this entry:

cpu2: receive verdict from userspace, lock queue
cpu2: unlink nf_queue_entry struct E, which references H, from queue list
cpu1: calls nf_queue_nf_hook_drop, blocks on queue spinlock
cpu2: unlock queue
cpu1: nf_queue_nf_hook_drop drops affected queue entries
cpu2: call nf_reinject for E
cpu1: kfree(H)
cpu2: potential use-after-free for H

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Fixes: 085db2c04557 ("netfilter: Per network namespace netfilter hooks.")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
Found during code review, no actual panic was observed.

diff --git a/net/netfilter/core.c b/net/netfilter/core.c
index 8e47f81..21a0856 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/core.c
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ void nf_unregister_net_hook(struct net *net, const struct nf_hook_ops *reg)
 #endif
 	synchronize_net();
 	nf_queue_nf_hook_drop(net, &entry->ops);
+	/* other cpu might still process nfqueue verdict that used reg */
+	synchronize_net();
 	kfree(entry);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nf_unregister_net_hook);
-- 
2.0.5


             reply	other threads:[~2015-10-08 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-08 21:38 Florian Westphal [this message]
2015-10-13 11:59 ` [PATCH nf] netfilter: sync with packet rx also after removing queue entries Pablo Neira Ayuso

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