This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used
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-nft_flow_offload-release-dst-in-case-direc.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 417f004a0de084d38656bb944dcf973ce173d96a
Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Feb 20 21:36:39 2024 +0100
netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used
[ Upstream commit 8762785f459be1cfe6fcf7285c123aad6a3703f0 ]
Direct xmit does not use it since it calls dev_queue_xmit() to send
packets, hence it calls dst_release().
kmemleak reports:
unreferenced object 0xffff88814f440900 (size 184):
comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294951896
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 60 5b 04 81 88 ff ff 00 e6 e8 82 ff ff ff ff .`[.............
21 0b 50 82 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 !.P.............
backtrace (crc cb2bf5d6):
[<000000003ee17107>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x286/0x340
[<0000000021a5de2c>] dst_alloc+0x43/0xb0
[<00000000f0671159>] rt_dst_alloc+0x2e/0x190
[<00000000fe5092c9>] __mkroute_output+0x244/0x980
[<000000005fb96fb0>] ip_route_output_flow+0xc0/0x160
[<0000000045367433>] nf_ip_route+0xf/0x30
[<0000000085da1d8e>] nf_route+0x2d/0x60
[<00000000d1ecd1cb>] nft_flow_route+0x171/0x6a0 [nft_flow_offload]
[<00000000d9b2fb60>] nft_flow_offload_eval+0x4e8/0x700 [nft_flow_offload]
[<000000009f447dbb>] expr_call_ops_eval+0x53/0x330 [nf_tables]
[<00000000072e1be6>] nft_do_chain+0x17c/0x840 [nf_tables]
[<00000000d0551029>] nft_do_chain_inet+0xa1/0x210 [nf_tables]
[<0000000097c9d5c6>] nf_hook_slow+0x5b/0x160
[<0000000005eccab1>] ip_forward+0x8b6/0x9b0
[<00000000553a269b>] ip_rcv+0x221/0x230
[<00000000412872e5>] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xfe/0x110
Fixes: fa502c865666 ("netfilter: flowtable: simplify route logic")
Reported-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_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index a213a7cb80435..e78cdd73ef628 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ static int flow_offload_fill_route(struct flow_offload *flow,
ETH_ALEN);
flow_tuple->out.ifidx = route->tuple[dir].out.ifindex;
flow_tuple->out.hw_ifidx = route->tuple[dir].out.hw_ifindex;
+ dst_release(dst);
break;
case FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_XFRM:
case FLOW_OFFLOAD_XMIT_NEIGH:
