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authorChengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@gmail.com>2026-08-24 20:12:38 +0800
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2026-09-03 01:39:27 +0200
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parente8f8231824b5815f57ce62cba116e511b10196de (diff)
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netfilter: cttimeout: prevent UAF during module unload
nf_ct_set_timeout() protects the timeout hook dereference and policy lookup with rcu_read_lock(). cttimeout_exit(), however, unregisters the per-net operations before it clears the hook. This allows the following interleaving: CPU 0 CPU 1 cttimeout_exit() nf_ct_set_timeout() unregister_pernet_subsys() rcu_read_lock() kfree(pernet) h = nf_ct_timeout_hook h->timeout_find_get() nfct_timeout_pernet() The hook still points to ctnl_timeout_find_get() when CPU 1 looks up the already freed per-net timeout list. KASAN reported: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ctnl_timeout_find_get Read of size 8 by task poc/90 Call Trace: ctnl_timeout_find_get+0x271/0x2a0 [nfnetlink_cttimeout] nf_ct_set_timeout+0x7b/0x3c0 xt_ct_tg_check+0x724/0xb20 xt_check_target+0x234/0xa90 do_ipt_set_ctl+0x570/0x1270 Allocated by task 89: __kmalloc_noprof+0x16e/0x460 ops_init+0x6d/0x420 register_pernet_operations+0x2f6/0x670 Freed by task 91: kfree+0x131/0x390 ops_undo_list+0x3d4/0x730 unregister_pernet_operations+0x232/0x490 unregister_pernet_subsys+0x1c/0x30 cttimeout_exit+0x52/0x970 [nfnetlink_cttimeout] Clear the hook and wait for existing readers before unregistering the per-net operations. This blocks new policy lookups and ensures readers that observed the hook finish before the per-net storage is freed. Fixes: ebfbe67568a7 ("netfilter: cttimeout: use net_generic infra") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c
index 66c2016f6049..132c02ac7c4e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c
@@ -652,9 +652,9 @@ static void __exit cttimeout_exit(void)
{
nfnetlink_subsys_unregister(&cttimeout_subsys);
- unregister_pernet_subsys(&cttimeout_ops);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_ct_timeout_hook, NULL);
synchronize_net();
+ unregister_pernet_subsys(&cttimeout_ops);
}
module_init(cttimeout_init);