This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: ipset: Fix race between IPSET_CMD_CREATE and IPSET_CMD_SWAP to the 5.15-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-ipset-fix-race-between-ipset_cmd_create-an.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f548f5fc12060efc8b637ce8874adca6000ca921 Author: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 19 20:04:45 2023 +0200 netfilter: ipset: Fix race between IPSET_CMD_CREATE and IPSET_CMD_SWAP [ Upstream commit 7433b6d2afd512d04398c73aa984d1e285be125b ] Kyle Zeng reported that there is a race between IPSET_CMD_ADD and IPSET_CMD_SWAP in netfilter/ip_set, which can lead to the invocation of `__ip_set_put` on a wrong `set`, triggering the `BUG_ON(set->ref == 0);` check in it. The race is caused by using the wrong reference counter, i.e. the ref counter instead of ref_netlink. Fixes: 24e227896bbf ("netfilter: ipset: Add schedule point in call_ad().") Reported-by: Kyle Zeng <zengyhkyle@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/ZPZqetxOmH+w%2Fmyc@westworld/#r Tested-by: Kyle Zeng <zengyhkyle@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c index c911fc09f363c..33869db42bb6b 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c @@ -682,6 +682,14 @@ __ip_set_put(struct ip_set *set) /* set->ref can be swapped out by ip_set_swap, netlink events (like dump) need * a separate reference counter */ +static void +__ip_set_get_netlink(struct ip_set *set) +{ + write_lock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock); + set->ref_netlink++; + write_unlock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock); +} + static void __ip_set_put_netlink(struct ip_set *set) { @@ -1695,11 +1703,11 @@ call_ad(struct net *net, struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb, do { if (retried) { - __ip_set_get(set); + __ip_set_get_netlink(set); nfnl_unlock(NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET); cond_resched(); nfnl_lock(NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET); - __ip_set_put(set); + __ip_set_put_netlink(set); } ip_set_lock(set);