With bridge-nf-call-iptables enabeled, Skbs go through the bridge and enqueued between <NF_BR_PRE_ROUTING,NF_BR_PRI_BRNF> and <NF_BR_FORWARD,NF_BR_PRI_BRNF - 1> won't be flushed when bridge is down. Then _skb_refdst of skbs in the nfqueue become dangling pointer. Reproduce steps: 1.Create a bridge on the box. 2.echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables 3.Add a netfilter hook function to queue the packets to nfqueuenum 0. The hook point must between <NF_BR_PRE_ROUTING,NF_BR_PRI_BRNF> and <NF_BR_FORWARD,NF_BR_PRI_BRNF - 1>. 4.Add a userspace process "nfqueue_rcv" to continuously read and set_verdict "NF_ACCEPT" to packets from queue 0. 5.Continuosly ping client1 from client0 6.Send "Ctrl + Z" to pause the "nfqueue_rcv" to simulate the queue congestion. 7.Using "ifconfig br0 down&&brctl delbr br0" to delete the bridge. 8.At this time the _skb_refdst of skbs in the nfqueue become dangling pointer. If we send "fg" to resume the "nfqueue_rcv", the kernel may try to access the freed memory. Debug log: Here I add debug logs in "netdev_freemem" and "dst_release" to prove the freed memory access. As the log shows, the "dst_release" accessed bridge's fake_rtable after the bridge was freed. Apr 8 22:25:14 raydon kernel: [62139.005062] netdev_freemem name:br0, fake_rtable:000000009d76cef0 Apr 8 22:25:21 raydon kernel: [62145.967133] dst_release dst:000000009d76cef0 dst->dev->name: řKU¡TH Apr 8 22:25:21 raydon kernel: [62145.967154] dst_release dst:000000009d76cef0 dst->dev->name: řKU¡TH Apr 8 22:25:21 raydon kernel: [62145.967180] dst_release dst:000000009d76cef0 dst->dev->name: řKU¡TH Apr 8 22:25:21 raydon kernel: [62145.967197] dst_release dst:000000009d76cef0 dst->dev->name: řKU¡TH The reason why the hook point should be after <NF_BR_PRE_ROUTING, NF_BR_PRI_BRNF> is skbs reference bridge's fake_rtable in "br_nf_pre_routing_finish" hooked at <NF_BR_PRE_ROUTING,NF_BR_PRI_BRNF>. And the reason why the hook point should be before <NF_BR_FORWARD, NF_BR_PRI_BRNF - 1> is "br_nf_forward_ip" will set the state.out to bridge dev. After this hook point, the "nfqnl_dev_drop" triggered by the bridge's NETDEV_DOWN event can flush the queued skbs before bridge's memory is freed, because the state.out now matches the bridge's dev. Signed-off-by: Rundong Ge <rdong.ge@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c index 0dcc359..57eb02d 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c @@ -905,13 +905,25 @@ static void free_entry(struct nf_queue_entry *entry) dev_cmp(struct nf_queue_entry *entry, unsigned long ifindex) { #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER) - int physinif, physoutif; + struct net_device *physindev, *physoutdev; + struct net_bridge_port *port; - physinif = nf_bridge_get_physinif(entry->skb); - physoutif = nf_bridge_get_physoutif(entry->skb); - - if (physinif == ifindex || physoutif == ifindex) - return 1; + physindev = nf_bridge_get_physindev(entry->skb); + physoutdev = nf_bridge_get_physoutdev(entry->skb); + if (physindev) { + if (physindev->ifindex == ifindex) + return 1; + port = br_port_get_rcu(physindev); + if (port && port->br->dev->ifindex == ifindex) + return 1; + } + if (physoutdev) { + if (physoutdev->ifindex == ifindex) + return 1; + port = br_port_get_rcu(physoutdev); + if (port && port->br->dev->ifindex == ifindex) + return 1; + } #endif if (entry->state.in) if (entry->state.in->ifindex == ifindex) -- 1.8.3.1