[PATCH 5.4 081/215] netfilter: nf_tables: mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-11T10:17:56Z

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

commit 552705a3650bbf46a22b1adedc1b04181490fc36 upstream.

While the rhashtable set gc runs asynchronously, a race allows it to
collect elements from anonymous sets with timeouts while it is being
released from the commit path.

Mingi Cho originally reported this issue in a different path in 6.1.x
with a pipapo set with low timeouts which is not possible upstream since
7395dfacfff6 ("netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set
element timeout").

Fix this by setting on the dead flag for anonymous sets to skip async gc
in this case.

According to 08e4c8c5919f ("netfilter: nf_tables: mark newset as dead on
transaction abort"), Florian plans to accelerate abort path by releasing
objects via workqueue, therefore, this sets on the dead flag for abort
path too.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5f68718b34a5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: GC transaction API to avoid race with control plane")
Reported-by: Mingi Cho <mgcho.minic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -4073,6 +4073,7 @@ static void nf_tables_unbind_set(const s

if (list_empty(&set->bindings) && nft_set_is_anonymous(set)) {
list_del_rcu(&set->list);
+ set->dead = 1;
if (event)
nf_tables_set_notify(ctx, set, NFT_MSG_DELSET,
GFP_KERNEL);