This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_tables: skip bound chain on rule flush to the 6.4-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-nf_tables-skip-bound-chain-on-rule-flush.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit dcc7e01ee2a877f6891ba56d1c4572f13efba902 Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jul 20 09:17:21 2023 +0200 netfilter: nf_tables: skip bound chain on rule flush [ Upstream commit 6eaf41e87a223ae6f8e7a28d6e78384ad7e407f8 ] Skip bound chain when flushing table rules, the rule that owns this chain releases these objects. Otherwise, the following warning is triggered: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1217 at net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2013 nf_tables_chain_destroy+0x1f7/0x210 [nf_tables] CPU: 2 PID: 1217 Comm: chain-flush Not tainted 6.1.39 #1 RIP: 0010:nf_tables_chain_destroy+0x1f7/0x210 [nf_tables] Fixes: d0e2c7de92c7 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add NFT_CHAIN_BINDING") Reported-by: Kevin Rich <kevinrich1337@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index e3049c7db9041..ccf0b3d80fd97 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -4086,6 +4086,8 @@ static int nf_tables_delrule(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nfnl_info *info, list_for_each_entry(chain, &table->chains, list) { if (!nft_is_active_next(net, chain)) continue; + if (nft_chain_is_bound(chain)) + continue; ctx.chain = chain; err = nft_delrule_by_chain(&ctx);