From d73f4b53aaaea4c95f245e491aa5eeb8a21874ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:00:26 +0100 Subject: netfilter: nf_tables: release flowtable after rcu grace period on error Call synchronize_rcu() after unregistering the hooks from error path, since a hook that already refers to this flowtable can be already registered, exposing this flowtable to packet path and nfnetlink_hook control plane. This error path is rare, it should only happen by reaching the maximum number hooks or by failing to set up to hardware offload, just call synchronize_rcu(). There is a check for already used device hooks by different flowtable that could result in EEXIST at this late stage. The hook parser can be updated to perform this check earlier to this error path really becomes rarely exercised. Uncovered by KASAN reported as use-after-free from nfnetlink_hook path when dumping hooks. Fixes: 3b49e2e94e6e ("netfilter: nf_tables: add flow table netlink frontend") Reported-by: Yiming Qian Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 9b1c8d0a35fb..3922cff1bb3d 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -9203,6 +9203,7 @@ static int nf_tables_newflowtable(struct sk_buff *skb, return 0; err_flowtable_hooks: + synchronize_rcu(); nft_trans_destroy(trans); err_flowtable_trans: nft_hooks_destroy(&flowtable->hook_list); -- cgit v1.2.3