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authorFourie Zhang <littleddfu@gmail.com>2026-08-10 19:35:01 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-09-02 14:32:38 +0200
commite97e2d6d0b150fd78be573f9fdf193f204d9334e (patch)
tree247a096dd36f3ae227dd140a0c7d6d36229bfbcb
parentd1893ebc5c851457a0bca901266875ba4d987882 (diff)
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netfilter: nf_tables: don't queue packet path object notifications
commit 7904b94768e983bcb2be34a8d6d1f3450f5b838b upstream. All file:line references below are against v7.2-rc4 (ac5b0e5651b1). The trace was captured on 7.2.0-rc6-kasan72rc6 (075b74841bd0), where the same lines apply. nft_obj_notify() is exported and reached from the packet path. Its only in-tree caller is nft_quota_obj_eval() (net/netfilter/nft_quota.c:68), which notifies with GFP_ATOMIC while evaluating a rule for a transiting packet, holding no mutex. Since commit 67cc570edaa0 ("netfilter: nf_tables: coalesce multiple notifications into one skbuff") that notification is no longer sent immediately. __nft_obj_notify() queues it onto nft_net->notify_list via nft_notify_enqueue() (net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1211), which is a bare list_add_tail(). notify_list has no lock of its own (include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1951), it is serialised by commit_mutex: the six other enqueue sites all run inside a netlink transaction, and the drain in nft_commit_notify() (net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:10746) does list_del() + kfree_skb() from nf_tables_commit() with commit_mutex held. Sending packets through a chain that references a depleted quota object therefore races an unlocked list_add_tail() against list_del() + kfree_skb() on another CPU. The WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, new) in __list_add() then stores through an sk_buff that has already been freed: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __nft_obj_notify+0x2c5/0x2d0 Write of size 8 at addr ff110001047183c0 by task poc/76 CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 76 Comm: poc Tainted: G W 7.2.0-rc6-kasan72rc6 #4 Call Trace: <IRQ> __nft_obj_notify (include/linux/list.h:164 include/linux/list.h:191 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1211 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8743) nft_quota_obj_eval (net/netfilter/nft_quota.c:68) nft_do_chain_inet nf_hook_slow __ip_local_out ip_push_pending_frames udp_send_skb udp_sendmsg __x64_sys_sendto Allocated by task 77: __alloc_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:704) __nft_obj_notify (include/net/netlink.h:1055 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8731) nft_quota_obj_eval (net/netfilter/nft_quota.c:68) nft_do_chain Freed by task 79: nf_tables_commit (include/linux/skbuff.h:1332 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:10759 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:11185) nfnetlink_rcv_batch (net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:574) netlink_unicast netlink_sendmsg The buggy address belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 232 Queueing from the packet path is wrong even leaving the race aside: notify_list is only drained by nft_commit_notify() from nf_tables_commit() (:11185), so a notification enqueued outside a transaction is not sent until some later netlink batch commits, if one ever does. The gfp argument that nft_obj_notify() still takes is a leftover of the pre-67cc570edaa0 behaviour, where this path called nfnetlink_send() directly. Restore that: split the message construction out into nft_obj_notify_alloc() and let each caller decide what to do with the skb. nft_obj_notify(), the exported one reached from the packet path, sends it straight away; nf_tables_obj_notify(), which runs under commit_mutex, keeps queueing it, so transaction notifications are still coalesced. Fixes: 67cc570edaa0 ("netfilter: nf_tables: coalesce multiple notifications into one skbuff") Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@tencent.com> Assisted-by: tencentos-corvus-ai:kimi-k3 Signed-off-by: Fourie Zhang <fouriezhang@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c36
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index c89e55ffc77d..f575a2f00aa7 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -8709,18 +8709,17 @@ static int nf_tables_delobj(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nfnl_info *info,
return nft_delobj(&ctx, obj);
}
-static void
-__nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
- struct nft_object *obj, u32 portid, u32 seq, int event,
- u16 flags, int family, int report, gfp_t gfp)
+static struct sk_buff *
+nft_obj_notify_alloc(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
+ struct nft_object *obj, u32 portid, u32 seq, int event,
+ u16 flags, int family, int report, gfp_t gfp)
{
- struct nftables_pernet *nft_net = nft_pernet(net);
struct sk_buff *skb;
int err;
if (!report &&
!nfnetlink_has_listeners(net, NFNLGRP_NFTABLES))
- return;
+ return NULL;
skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, gfp);
if (skb == NULL)
@@ -8734,10 +8733,10 @@ __nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
goto err;
}
- nft_notify_enqueue(skb, report, &nft_net->notify_list);
- return;
+ return skb;
err:
nfnetlink_set_err(net, portid, NFNLGRP_NFTABLES, -ENOBUFS);
+ return NULL;
}
void nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
@@ -8746,6 +8745,7 @@ void nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
{
char *buf = kasprintf(gfp, "%s:%u",
table->name, nft_base_seq(net));
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
audit_log_nfcfg(buf,
family,
@@ -8756,17 +8756,27 @@ void nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table,
gfp);
kfree(buf);
- __nft_obj_notify(net, table, obj, portid, seq, event,
- flags, family, report, gfp);
+ /* Called from the packet path, holding no mutex: notify_list is
+ * serialised by commit_mutex, so send this notification directly.
+ */
+ skb = nft_obj_notify_alloc(net, table, obj, portid, seq, event,
+ flags, family, report, gfp);
+ if (skb)
+ nfnetlink_send(skb, net, portid, NFNLGRP_NFTABLES, report, gfp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nft_obj_notify);
static void nf_tables_obj_notify(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
struct nft_object *obj, int event)
{
- __nft_obj_notify(ctx->net, ctx->table, obj, ctx->portid,
- ctx->seq, event, ctx->flags, ctx->family,
- ctx->report, GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct nftables_pernet *nft_net = nft_pernet(ctx->net);
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+ skb = nft_obj_notify_alloc(ctx->net, ctx->table, obj, ctx->portid,
+ ctx->seq, event, ctx->flags, ctx->family,
+ ctx->report, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (skb)
+ nft_notify_enqueue(skb, ctx->report, &nft_net->notify_list);
}
/*