This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: ctnetlink: fix possible refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack()
to the 4.14-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:
netfilter-ctnetlink-fix-possible-refcount-leak-in-ct.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 36040838028daaad29e73ac7e3f88173f6ddff44
Author: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 10 15:17:30 2023 +0800
netfilter: ctnetlink: fix possible refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack()
[ Upstream commit ac4893980bbe79ce383daf9a0885666a30fe4c83 ]
nf_ct_put() needs to be called to put the refcount got by
nf_conntrack_find_get() to avoid refcount leak when
nf_conntrack_hash_check_insert() fails.
Fixes: 7d367e06688d ("netfilter: ctnetlink: fix soft lockup when netlink adds new entries (v2)")
Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index b084659bd34bc..733e61fc50433 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -1906,12 +1906,15 @@ ctnetlink_create_conntrack(struct net *net,
err = nf_conntrack_hash_check_insert(ct);
if (err < 0)
- goto err2;
+ goto err3;
rcu_read_unlock();
return ct;
+err3:
+ if (ct->master)
+ nf_ct_put(ct->master);
err2:
rcu_read_unlock();
err1:
