From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: [PATCH nft] parser_bison: fix memory leak when parsing flowtable hook declaration
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:00:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250723150021.10811-1-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <netfilter-devel>
When the hook location is invalid we error out but we do leak both
the priority expression and the flowtable name. Example:
valgrind --leak-check=full nft -f flowtable-parser-err-memleak
[..] Error: unknown chain hook
hook enoent priority filter + 10
^^^^^^
[..]
2 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 3
at: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:446)
by: strdup (in libc.so.6)
by: xstrdup (in libnftables.so.1.1.0)
by: nft_lex (in libnftables.so.1.1.0)
by: nft_parse (in libnftables.so.1.1.0)
by: __nft_run_cmd_from_filename (in libnftables.so.1.1.0)
by: nft_run_cmd_from_filename (in libnftables.so.1.1.0)
First two reports are due to the priority expression: this needs to call
expr_free(). Third report is due to the flowtable name, the destructor
was missing so add one.
After fix:
All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
src/parser_bison.y | 3 ++-
.../testcases/bogons/nft-f/flowtable-parser-err-memleak | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 tests/shell/testcases/bogons/nft-f/flowtable-parser-err-memleak
diff --git a/src/parser_bison.y b/src/parser_bison.y
index 5b84331f220d..aacfa2917917 100644
--- a/src/parser_bison.y
+++ b/src/parser_bison.y
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ int nft_lex(void *, void *, void *);
%destructor { handle_free(&$$); } obj_spec objid_spec obj_or_id_spec
%type <handle> set_identifier flowtableid_spec flowtable_identifier obj_identifier
-%destructor { handle_free(&$$); } set_identifier flowtableid_spec obj_identifier
+%destructor { handle_free(&$$); } set_identifier flowtableid_spec flowtable_identifier obj_identifier
%type <handle> basehook_spec
%destructor { handle_free(&$$); } basehook_spec
@@ -2427,6 +2427,7 @@ flowtable_block : /* empty */ { $$ = $<flowtable>-1; }
erec_queue(error(&@3, "unknown chain hook"),
state->msgs);
free_const($3);
+ expr_free($4.expr);
YYERROR;
}
free_const($3);
diff --git a/tests/shell/testcases/bogons/nft-f/flowtable-parser-err-memleak b/tests/shell/testcases/bogons/nft-f/flowtable-parser-err-memleak
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ca0480bfc943
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/shell/testcases/bogons/nft-f/flowtable-parser-err-memleak
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+table ip t {
+ flowtable f {
+ hook enoent priority filter + 10
+ }
+}
--
2.49.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-23 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2019-04-30 12:53 ` [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_tables: fix oops during rule dump Florian Westphal
2019-05-01 3:54 ` Taehee Yoo
2019-05-20 19:21 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-09-06 15:20 ` [PATCH nf-next 0/2] netfilter: nat: avoid long-running loops Florian Westphal
2022-09-06 15:20 ` [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nat: move repetitive nat port reserve loop to a helper Florian Westphal
2022-09-06 15:20 ` [PATCH nf-next 2/2] netfilter: nat: avoid long-running port range loop Florian Westphal
2023-10-06 9:27 ` [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: conntrack: simplify nf_conntrack_alter_reply Florian Westphal
2025-07-23 15:00 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2025-07-24 9:44 ` [PATCH nft] parser_bison: fix memory leak when parsing flowtable hook declaration Pablo Neira Ayuso
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