kernel/linux.git/include/net/netfilter, branch v6.12.94

netfilter: ctnetlink: ensure safe access to master conntrack

2026-06-19T11:42:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit bffcaad9afdfe45d7fc777397d3b83c1e3ebffe5 ] Holding reference on the expectation is not sufficient, the master conntrack object can just go away, making exp->master invalid. To access exp->master safely: - Grab the nf_conntrack_expect_lock, this gets serialized with clean_from_lists() which also holds this lock when the master conntrack goes away. - Hold reference on master conntrack via nf_conntrack_find_get(). Not so easy since the master tuple to look up for the master conntrack is not available in the existing problematic paths. This patch goes for extending the nf_conntrack_expect_lock section to address this issue for simplicity, in the cases that are described below this is just slightly extending the lock section. The add expectation command already holds a reference to the master conntrack from ctnetlink_create_expect(). However, the delete expectation command needs to grab the spinlock before looking up for the expectation. Expand the existing spinlock section to address this to cover the expectation lookup. Note that, the nf_ct_expect_iterate_net() calls already grabs the spinlock while iterating over the expectation table, which is correct. The get expectation command needs to grab the spinlock to ensure master conntrack does not go away. This also expands the existing spinlock section to cover the expectation lookup too. I needed to move the netlink skb allocation out of the spinlock to keep it GFP_KERNEL. For the expectation events, the IPEXP_DESTROY event is already delivered under the spinlock, just move the delivery of IPEXP_NEW under the spinlock too because the master conntrack event cache is reached through exp->master. While at it, add lockdep notations to help identify what codepaths need to grab the spinlock. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso [ fix timer_delete -> del_timer in diff context lines since 8fa7292 ("treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()") landed in 6.15 ] Signed-off-by: Mark Bundschuh Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nf_conntrack: destroy stale expectfn expectations on unregister

2026-06-19T11:42:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit c3009418f9fa1dcb3eb86f4d8c92583537b5faa3 ] NAT helpers such as nf_nat_h323 store a raw pointer to module text in exp->expectfn (e.g. ip_nat_q931_expect). nf_ct_helper_expectfn_unregister() only unlinks the callback descriptor and never walks the expectation table, so an expectation pending at module removal survives with a dangling exp->expectfn into freed module text. When the expected connection arrives, init_conntrack() invokes exp->expectfn(), now a stale pointer into the unloaded module. Reproduced on a KASAN build by loading the H.323 helpers, creating a Q.931 expectation, unloading nf_nat_h323, then connecting to the expected port: Oops: int3: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI RIP: 0010:0xffffffffa06102d1 init_conntrack.isra.0 (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1862) nf_conntrack_in (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2049) ipv4_conntrack_local (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c:223) nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619) __ip_local_out (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:120) __tcp_transmit_skb (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1715) tcp_connect (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:4374) tcp_v4_connect (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:345) __sys_connect (net/socket.c:2167) Modules linked in: nf_conntrack_h323 [last unloaded: nf_nat_h323] Reaching the dangling state requires CAP_SYS_MODULE in the initial user namespace to remove a NAT helper that still has live expectations, so this is a robustness fix; leaving an expectation pointing at freed text is wrong regardless. Add nf_ct_helper_expectfn_destroy(), which walks the expectation table and drops every expectation whose ->expectfn matches the descriptor being torn down. Call it from each NAT helper's exit path after the existing RCU grace period, so no expectation outlives the code it points at and no extra synchronize_rcu() is introduced. With the fix, the same reproducer runs to completion without the Oops. Fixes: f587de0e2feb ("[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add H.323 helper port") Reported-by: Xiang Mei Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nf_queue: hold bridge skb->dev while queued

2026-06-01T15:46:18+00:00

commit e196115ec330a18de415bdb9f5071aa9f08e53ce upstream. br_pass_frame_up() rewrites skb->dev from the ingress port to the bridge master before queueing bridge LOCAL_IN packets. NFQUEUE only holds references on state.in/out and bridge physdevs, so a queued bridge packet can retain a freed bridge master in skb->dev until reinjection. When the verdict is reinjected later, br_netif_receive_skb() re-enters the receive path with skb->dev still pointing at the freed bridge master, triggering a use-after-free. Store skb->dev in the queue entry, hold a reference on it for the queue lifetime, and use the saved device when dropping queued packets during NETDEV_DOWN handling. Fixes: ac2863445686 ("netfilter: bridge: add nf_afinfo to enable queuing to userspace") Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Yuan Tan Reported-by: Yifan Wu Reported-by: Juefei Pu Reported-by: Xin Liu Signed-off-by: Haoze Xie Signed-off-by: Ren Wei Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: make hash table per queue

2026-04-22T11:18:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit 936206e3f6ff411581e615e930263d6f8b78df9d ] Sharing a global hash table among all queues is tempting, but it can cause crash: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nfqnl_recv_verdict+0x11ac/0x15e0 [nfnetlink_queue] [..] nfqnl_recv_verdict+0x11ac/0x15e0 [nfnetlink_queue] nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x46a/0x930 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x11e/0x450 struct nf_queue_entry is freed via kfree, but parallel cpu can still encounter such an nf_queue_entry when walking the list. Alternative fix is to free the nf_queue_entry via kfree_rcu() instead, but as we have to alloc/free for each skb this will cause more mem pressure. Cc: Scott Mitchell Fixes: e19079adcd26 ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: optimize verdict lookup with hash table") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy

2026-04-18T08:41:56+00:00

commit f8dca15a1b190787bbd03285304b569631160eda upstream. nft_ct_timeout_obj_destroy() frees the timeout object with kfree() immediately after nf_ct_untimeout(), without waiting for an RCU grace period. Concurrent packet processing on other CPUs may still hold RCU-protected references to the timeout object obtained via rcu_dereference() in nf_ct_timeout_data(). Add an rcu_head to struct nf_ct_timeout and use kfree_rcu() to defer freeing until after an RCU grace period, matching the approach already used in nfnetlink_cttimeout.c. KASAN report: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nf_conntrack_tcp_packet+0x1381/0x29d0 Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881035fe19c by task exploit/80 Call Trace: nf_conntrack_tcp_packet+0x1381/0x29d0 nf_conntrack_in+0x612/0x8b0 nf_hook_slow+0x70/0x100 __ip_local_out+0x1b2/0x210 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x722/0x1580 __sys_sendto+0x2d8/0x320 Allocated by task 75: nft_ct_timeout_obj_init+0xf6/0x290 nft_obj_init+0x107/0x1b0 nf_tables_newobj+0x680/0x9c0 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xc29/0xe00 Freed by task 26: nft_obj_destroy+0x3f/0xa0 nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x51c/0x5c0 process_one_work+0x2c4/0x5a0 Fixes: 7e0b2b57f01d ("netfilter: nft_ct: add ct timeout support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tuan Do Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: store netns and zone in expectation

2026-04-11T12:24:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 02a3231b6d82efe750da6554ebf280e4a6f78756 ] __nf_ct_expect_find() and nf_ct_expect_find_get() are called under rcu_read_lock() but they dereference the master conntrack via exp->master. Since the expectation does not hold a reference on the master conntrack, this could be dying conntrack or different recycled conntrack than the real master due to SLAB_TYPESAFE_RCU. Store the netns, the master_tuple and the zone in struct nf_conntrack_expect as a safety measure. This patch is required by the follow up fix not to dump expectations that do not belong to this netns. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Stable-dep-of: 917b61fa2042 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: ignore explicit helper on new expectations") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: honor expectation helper field

2026-04-11T12:24:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9c42bc9db90a154bc61ae337a070465f3393485a ] The expectation helper field is mostly unused. As a result, the netfilter codebase relies on accessing the helper through exp->master. Always set on the expectation helper field so it can be used to reach the helper. nf_ct_expect_init() is called from packet path where the skb owns the ct object, therefore accessing exp->master for the newly created expectation is safe. This saves a lot of updates in all callsites to pass the ct object as parameter to nf_ct_expect_init(). This is a preparation patches for follow up fixes. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Stable-dep-of: 917b61fa2042 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: ignore explicit helper on new expectations") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

nf_tables: nft_dynset: fix possible stateful expression memleak in error path

2026-03-25T10:08:53+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0548a13b5a145b16e4da0628b5936baf35f51b43 ] If cloning the second stateful expression in the element via GFP_ATOMIC fails, then the first stateful expression remains in place without being released. unreferenced object (percpu) 0x607b97e9cab8 (size 16): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294931867 hex dump (first 16 bytes on cpu 3): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 backtrace (crc 0): pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x453/0xd80 nft_counter_clone+0x9c/0x190 [nf_tables] nft_expr_clone+0x8f/0x1b0 [nf_tables] nft_dynset_new+0x2cb/0x5f0 [nf_tables] nft_rhash_update+0x236/0x11c0 [nf_tables] nft_dynset_eval+0x11f/0x670 [nf_tables] nft_do_chain+0x253/0x1700 [nf_tables] nft_do_chain_ipv4+0x18d/0x270 [nf_tables] nf_hook_slow+0xaa/0x1e0 ip_local_deliver+0x209/0x330 Fixes: 563125a73ac3 ("netfilter: nftables: generalize set extension to support for several expressions") Reported-by: Gurpreet Shergill Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: split gc into unlink and reclaim phase

2026-03-13T16:20:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9df95785d3d8302f7c066050117b04cd3c2048c2 ] Yiming Qian reports Use-after-free in the pipapo set type: Under a large number of expired elements, commit-time GC can run for a very long time in a non-preemptible context, triggering soft lockup warnings and RCU stall reports (local denial of service). We must split GC in an unlink and a reclaim phase. We cannot queue elements for freeing until pointers have been swapped. Expired elements are still exposed to both the packet path and userspace dumpers via the live copy of the data structure. call_rcu() does not protect us: dump operations or element lookups starting after call_rcu has fired can still observe the free'd element, unless the commit phase has made enough progress to swap the clone and live pointers before any new reader has picked up the old version. This a similar approach as done recently for the rbtree backend in commit 35f83a75529a ("netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: don't gc elements on insert"). Fixes: 3c4287f62044 ("nf_tables: Add set type for arbitrary concatenation of ranges") Reported-by: Yiming Qian Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: do shared-unconfirmed check before segmentation

2026-03-04T12:20:09+00:00

[ Upstream commit 207b3ebacb6113acaaec0d171d5307032c690004 ] Ulrich reports a regression with nfqueue: If an application did not set the 'F_GSO' capability flag and a gso packet with an unconfirmed nf_conn entry is received all packets are now dropped instead of queued, because the check happens after skb_gso_segment(). In that case, we did have exclusive ownership of the skb and its associated conntrack entry. The elevated use count is due to skb_clone happening via skb_gso_segment(). Move the check so that its peformed vs. the aggregated packet. Then, annotate the individual segments except the first one so we can do a 2nd check at reinject time. For the normal case, where userspace does in-order reinjects, this avoids packet drops: first reinjected segment continues traversal and confirms entry, remaining segments observe the confirmed entry. While at it, simplify nf_ct_drop_unconfirmed(): We only care about unconfirmed entries with a refcnt > 1, there is no need to special-case dying entries. This only happens with UDP. With TCP, the only unconfirmed packet will be the TCP SYN, those aren't aggregated by GRO. Next patch adds a udpgro test case to cover this scenario. Reported-by: Ulrich Weber Fixes: 7d8dc1c7be8d ("netfilter: nf_queue: drop packets with cloned unconfirmed conntracks") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin