From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3e70489721b6c870252c9082c496703677240f53 ] Otherwise a dangling reference to a rule object that is gone remains in the set binding list. Fixes: 26b5a5712eb8 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add NFT_TRANS_PREPARE_ERROR to deal with bound set/chain") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -4689,6 +4689,8 @@ void nf_tables_deactivate_set(const stru nft_set_trans_unbind(ctx, set); if (nft_set_is_anonymous(set)) nft_deactivate_next(ctx->net, set); + else + list_del_rcu(&binding->list); set->use--; break;