This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally flush pending work before notifier
to the 6.9-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-unconditionally-flush-pending-wo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8f85f608dfda467e344ea21c65844b34e849c9b4
Author: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jul 2 16:08:14 2024 +0200
netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally flush pending work before notifier
[ Upstream commit 9f6958ba2e902f9820c594869bd710ba74b7c4c0 ]
syzbot reports:
KASAN: slab-uaf in nft_ctx_update include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1831
KASAN: slab-uaf in nft_commit_release net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9530
KASAN: slab-uaf int nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x152b/0x1750 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9597
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802b0051c4 by task kworker/1:1/45
[..]
Workqueue: events nf_tables_trans_destroy_work
Call Trace:
nft_ctx_update include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1831 [inline]
nft_commit_release net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9530 [inline]
nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x152b/0x1750 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9597
Problem is that the notifier does a conditional flush, but its possible
that the table-to-be-removed is still referenced by transactions being
processed by the worker, so we need to flush unconditionally.
We could make the flush_work depend on whether we found a table to delete
in nf-next to avoid the flush for most cases.
AFAICS this problem is only exposed in nf-next, with
commit e169285f8c56 ("netfilter: nf_tables: do not store nft_ctx in transaction objects"),
with this commit applied there is an unconditional fetch of
table->family which is whats triggering the above splat.
Fixes: 2c9f0293280e ("netfilter: nf_tables: flush pending destroy work before netlink notifier")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+4fd66a69358fc15ae2ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4fd66a69358fc15ae2ad
Signed-off-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_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index faa77b031d1f3..0f77ba3306c23 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -11479,8 +11479,7 @@ static int nft_rcv_nl_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
gc_seq = nft_gc_seq_begin(nft_net);
- if (!list_empty(&nf_tables_destroy_list))
- nf_tables_trans_destroy_flush_work();
+ nf_tables_trans_destroy_flush_work();
again:
list_for_each_entry(table, &nft_net->tables, list) {
if (nft_table_has_owner(table) &&
