Hook unregistration is deferred to the commit phase, same occurs with hook updates triggered by the table dormant flag. When both commands are combined, this results in deleting a basechain while leaving its hook still registered in the core. Fixes: 179d9ba5559a ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix table flag updates") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: nft_trans_chain() is not set by nf_tables_updtable() with NFT_MSG_DELCHAIN, use trans->ctx.chain instead otherwise null-ptr dereference is possible. net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 8fd9eb96408d..aee02a1cfa82 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -1210,10 +1210,11 @@ static bool nft_table_pending_update(const struct nft_ctx *ctx) return true; list_for_each_entry(trans, &nft_net->commit_list, list) { - if ((trans->msg_type == NFT_MSG_NEWCHAIN || - trans->msg_type == NFT_MSG_DELCHAIN) && - trans->ctx.table == ctx->table && - nft_trans_chain_update(trans)) + if (trans->ctx.table == ctx->table && + ((trans->msg_type == NFT_MSG_NEWCHAIN && + nft_trans_chain_update(trans)) || + (trans->msg_type == NFT_MSG_DELCHAIN && + nft_is_base_chain(trans->ctx.chain)))) return true; } -- 2.30.2