No need to postpone this to the commit release path, since no packets are walking over this object, this is accessed from control plane only. This helped uncovered UAF triggered by races with the netlink notifier. Fixes: 9dd732e0bdf5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: memleak flow rule from commit path") Reported-by: syzbot+8f747f62763bc6c32916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 2197118aa7b0..76bd4d03dbda 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -8465,9 +8465,6 @@ static void nft_commit_release(struct nft_trans *trans) nf_tables_chain_destroy(&trans->ctx); break; case NFT_MSG_DELRULE: - if (trans->ctx.chain->flags & NFT_CHAIN_HW_OFFLOAD) - nft_flow_rule_destroy(nft_trans_flow_rule(trans)); - nf_tables_rule_destroy(&trans->ctx, nft_trans_rule(trans)); break; case NFT_MSG_DELSET: @@ -8973,6 +8970,9 @@ static int nf_tables_commit(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb) nft_rule_expr_deactivate(&trans->ctx, nft_trans_rule(trans), NFT_TRANS_COMMIT); + + if (trans->ctx.chain->flags & NFT_CHAIN_HW_OFFLOAD) + nft_flow_rule_destroy(nft_trans_flow_rule(trans)); break; case NFT_MSG_NEWSET: nft_clear(net, nft_trans_set(trans)); -- 2.30.2