This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: bpf: must hold reference on net namespace to the 6.11-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-bpf-must-hold-reference-on-net-namespace.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3221322e4e01b08e97a4b7d15aacbd61739c34a1 Author: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 10 18:34:05 2024 +0200 netfilter: bpf: must hold reference on net namespace [ Upstream commit 1230fe7ad3974f7bf6c78901473e039b34d4fb1f ] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x640/0x6b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880106fe400 by task repro/72= bpf_nf_link_release+0xda/0x1e0 bpf_link_free+0x139/0x2d0 bpf_link_release+0x68/0x80 __fput+0x414/0xb60 Eric says: It seems that bpf was able to defer the __nf_unregister_net_hook() after exit()/close() time. Perhaps a netns reference is missing, because the netns has been dismantled/freed already. bpf_nf_link_attach() does : link->net = net; But I do not see a reference being taken on net. Add such a reference and release it after hook unreg. Note that I was unable to get syzbot reproducer to work, so I do not know if this resolves this splat. Fixes: 84601d6ee68a ("bpf: add bpf_link support for BPF_NETFILTER programs") Diagnosed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Lai, Yi <yi1.lai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_bpf_link.c b/net/netfilter/nf_bpf_link.c index 797fe8a9971e7..3d64a4511fcfd 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_bpf_link.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_bpf_link.c @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ static unsigned int nf_hook_run_bpf(void *bpf_prog, struct sk_buff *skb, struct bpf_nf_link { struct bpf_link link; struct nf_hook_ops hook_ops; + netns_tracker ns_tracker; struct net *net; u32 dead; const struct nf_defrag_hook *defrag_hook; @@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ static void bpf_nf_link_release(struct bpf_link *link) if (!cmpxchg(&nf_link->dead, 0, 1)) { nf_unregister_net_hook(nf_link->net, &nf_link->hook_ops); bpf_nf_disable_defrag(nf_link); + put_net_track(nf_link->net, &nf_link->ns_tracker); } } @@ -258,6 +260,8 @@ int bpf_nf_link_attach(const union bpf_attr *attr, struct bpf_prog *prog) return err; } + get_net_track(net, &link->ns_tracker, GFP_KERNEL); + return bpf_link_settle(&link_primer); }