This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6_rule_suppress to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipv6-fix-memory-leak-in-fib6_rule_suppress.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cdef485217d30382f3bf6448c54b4401648fe3f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: msizanoen1 <msizanoen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:48:32 +0100 Subject: ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6_rule_suppress From: msizanoen1 <msizanoen@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit cdef485217d30382f3bf6448c54b4401648fe3f1 upstream. The kernel leaks memory when a `fib` rule is present in IPv6 nftables firewall rules and a suppress_prefix rule is present in the IPv6 routing rules (used by certain tools such as wg-quick). In such scenarios, every incoming packet will leak an allocation in `ip6_dst_cache` slab cache. After some hours of `bpftrace`-ing and source code reading, I tracked down the issue to ca7a03c41753 ("ipv6: do not free rt if FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF is set on suppress rule"). The problem with that change is that the generic `args->flags` always have `FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF` set[1][2] but the IPv6-specific flag `RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF` might not be, leading to `fib6_rule_suppress` not decreasing the refcount when needed. How to reproduce: - Add the following nftables rule to a prerouting chain: meta nfproto ipv6 fib saddr . mark . iif oif missing drop This can be done with: sudo nft create table inet test sudo nft create chain inet test test_chain '{ type filter hook prerouting priority filter + 10; policy accept; }' sudo nft add rule inet test test_chain meta nfproto ipv6 fib saddr . mark . iif oif missing drop - Run: sudo ip -6 rule add table main suppress_prefixlength 0 - Watch `sudo slabtop -o | grep ip6_dst_cache` to see memory usage increase with every incoming ipv6 packet. This patch exposes the protocol-specific flags to the protocol specific `suppress` function, and check the protocol-specific `flags` argument for RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF instead of the generic FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF when decreasing the refcount, like this. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ca7a03c4175366a92cee0ccc4fec0038c3266e26/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c#L71 [2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ca7a03c4175366a92cee0ccc4fec0038c3266e26/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c#L99 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215105 Fixes: ca7a03c41753 ("ipv6: do not free rt if FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF is set on suppress rule") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/net/fib_rules.h | 4 +++- net/core/fib_rules.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/fib_rules.c | 1 + net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/include/net/fib_rules.h +++ b/include/net/fib_rules.h @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct fib_rules_ops { int (*action)(struct fib_rule *, struct flowi *, int, struct fib_lookup_arg *); - bool (*suppress)(struct fib_rule *, + bool (*suppress)(struct fib_rule *, int, struct fib_lookup_arg *); int (*match)(struct fib_rule *, struct flowi *, int); @@ -218,7 +218,9 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int fib4_rule_ struct fib_lookup_arg *arg)); INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(bool fib6_rule_suppress(struct fib_rule *rule, + int flags, struct fib_lookup_arg *arg)); INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(bool fib4_rule_suppress(struct fib_rule *rule, + int flags, struct fib_lookup_arg *arg)); #endif --- a/net/core/fib_rules.c +++ b/net/core/fib_rules.c @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ jumped: if (!err && ops->suppress && INDIRECT_CALL_MT(ops->suppress, fib6_rule_suppress, fib4_rule_suppress, - rule, arg)) + rule, flags, arg)) continue; if (err != -EAGAIN) { --- a/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int fib4_rule_ac } INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE bool fib4_rule_suppress(struct fib_rule *rule, + int flags, struct fib_lookup_arg *arg) { struct fib_result *result = (struct fib_result *) arg->result; --- a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c +++ b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c @@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int fib6_rule_ac } INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE bool fib6_rule_suppress(struct fib_rule *rule, + int flags, struct fib_lookup_arg *arg) { struct fib6_result *res = arg->result; @@ -294,8 +295,7 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE bool fib6_rule_s return false; suppress_route: - if (!(arg->flags & FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF)) - ip6_rt_put(rt); + ip6_rt_put_flags(rt, flags); return true; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from msizanoen@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/ipv6-fix-memory-leak-in-fib6_rule_suppress.patch