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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2025-08-01 17:25:08 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-08-20 18:30:17 +0200
commita2cb4df7872de069f809de2f076ec8e54d649fe3 (patch)
tree5b8d8efd17168a2cdc97192cec927ba59b6a6e14
parent5e95347bf4ca35336fc4107537bec46af784d8d6 (diff)
netfilter: ctnetlink: fix refcount leak on table dump
[ Upstream commit de788b2e6227462b6dcd0e07474e72c089008f74 ] There is a reference count leak in ctnetlink_dump_table(): if (res < 0) { nf_conntrack_get(&ct->ct_general); // HERE cb->args[1] = (unsigned long)ct; ... While its very unlikely, its possible that ct == last. If this happens, then the refcount of ct was already incremented. This 2nd increment is never undone. This prevents the conntrack object from being released, which in turn keeps prevents cnet->count from dropping back to 0. This will then block the netns dismantle (or conntrack rmmod) as nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list() will wait forever. This can be reproduced by running conntrack_resize.sh selftest in a loop. It takes ~20 minutes for me on a preemptible kernel on average before I see a runaway kworker spinning in nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list. One fix would to change this to: if (res < 0) { if (ct != last) nf_conntrack_get(&ct->ct_general); But this reference counting isn't needed in the first place. We can just store a cookie value instead. A followup patch will do the same for ctnetlink_exp_dump_table, it looks to me as if this has the same problem and like ctnetlink_dump_table, we only need a 'skip hint', not the actual object so we can apply the same cookie strategy there as well. Fixes: d205dc40798d ("[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: fix deadlock in table dumping") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c24
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 6a1239433830..18a91c031554 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -860,8 +860,6 @@ errout:
static int ctnetlink_done(struct netlink_callback *cb)
{
- if (cb->args[1])
- nf_ct_put((struct nf_conn *)cb->args[1]);
kfree(cb->data);
return 0;
}
@@ -1184,19 +1182,26 @@ ignore_entry:
return 0;
}
+static unsigned long ctnetlink_get_id(const struct nf_conn *ct)
+{
+ unsigned long id = nf_ct_get_id(ct);
+
+ return id ? id : 1;
+}
+
static int
ctnetlink_dump_table(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
{
unsigned int flags = cb->data ? NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED : 0;
struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
- struct nf_conn *ct, *last;
+ unsigned long last_id = cb->args[1];
struct nf_conntrack_tuple_hash *h;
struct hlist_nulls_node *n;
struct nf_conn *nf_ct_evict[8];
+ struct nf_conn *ct;
int res, i;
spinlock_t *lockp;
- last = (struct nf_conn *)cb->args[1];
i = 0;
local_bh_disable();
@@ -1233,7 +1238,7 @@ restart:
continue;
if (cb->args[1]) {
- if (ct != last)
+ if (ctnetlink_get_id(ct) != last_id)
continue;
cb->args[1] = 0;
}
@@ -1246,8 +1251,7 @@ restart:
NFNL_MSG_TYPE(cb->nlh->nlmsg_type),
ct, true, flags);
if (res < 0) {
- nf_conntrack_get(&ct->ct_general);
- cb->args[1] = (unsigned long)ct;
+ cb->args[1] = ctnetlink_get_id(ct);
spin_unlock(lockp);
goto out;
}
@@ -1260,12 +1264,10 @@ restart:
}
out:
local_bh_enable();
- if (last) {
+ if (last_id) {
/* nf ct hash resize happened, now clear the leftover. */
- if ((struct nf_conn *)cb->args[1] == last)
+ if (cb->args[1] == last_id)
cb->args[1] = 0;
-
- nf_ct_put(last);
}
while (i) {