linux/include/net/netfilter
Tuan Do c581e5c8f2 netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy
commit f8dca15a1b 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: 7e0b2b57f0 ("netfilter: nft_ct: add ct timeout support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tuan Do <tuan@calif.io>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-04-18 10:33:36 +02:00
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ipv4 netfilter: disable defrag once its no longer needed 2021-04-26 03:20:07 +02:00
ipv6 netfilter: conntrack: fix boot failure with nf_conntrack.enable_hooks=1 2021-09-28 13:04:55 +02:00
br_netfilter.h netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers. 2019-09-13 12:47:36 +02:00
nf_conntrack.h netfilter: let reset rules clean out conntrack entries 2024-03-06 14:38:46 +00:00
nf_conntrack_acct.h netfilter: conntrack: add nf_ct_acct_add() 2020-03-30 02:05:39 +02:00
nf_conntrack_bridge.h netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers. 2019-09-13 12:47:36 +02:00
nf_conntrack_core.h netfilter: conntrack: re-fetch conntrack after insertion 2022-06-06 08:43:38 +02:00
nf_conntrack_count.h netfilter: nf_conncount: increase the connection clean up limit to 64 2026-03-04 07:19:34 -05:00
nf_conntrack_ecache.h netfilter: ecache: remove nf_exp_event_notifier structure 2021-08-25 12:50:38 +02:00
nf_conntrack_expect.h netfilter: fix coding-style errors. 2019-09-13 11:39:38 +02:00
nf_conntrack_extend.h netfilter: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-03-15 15:20:16 +01:00
nf_conntrack_helper.h netfilter: conntrack: Add and use nf_ct_set_auto_assign_helper_warned() 2022-04-08 14:23:42 +02:00
nf_conntrack_l4proto.h netfilter: conntrack: pass hook state to log functions 2021-06-18 14:47:43 +02:00
nf_conntrack_labels.h netfilter: fix include guards. 2019-09-13 11:39:38 +02:00
nf_conntrack_seqadj.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
nf_conntrack_synproxy.h netfilter: conntrack: wrap two inline functions in config checks. 2019-09-13 12:47:10 +02:00
nf_conntrack_timeout.h netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy 2026-04-18 10:33:36 +02:00
nf_conntrack_timestamp.h netfilter: conntrack: remove two unused functions from nf_conntrack_timestamp.h. 2019-09-13 12:48:09 +02:00
nf_conntrack_tuple.h netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers. 2019-09-13 12:47:36 +02:00
nf_conntrack_zones.h netfilter: conntrack: remove CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK checks from nf_conntrack_zones.h. 2019-09-13 12:47:41 +02:00
nf_dup_netdev.h netfilter: nft_{fwd,dup}_netdev: add offload support 2019-09-10 22:44:29 +02:00
nf_flow_table.h netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto() 2025-07-17 18:30:53 +02:00
nf_hooks_lwtunnel.h netfilter: add netfilter hooks to SRv6 data plane 2021-08-30 01:51:36 +02:00
nf_log.h netfilter: nf_log_common: merge with nf_log_syslog 2021-03-31 22:34:10 +02:00
nf_nat.h netfilter: nat: move nf_xfrm_me_harder to where it is used 2021-04-26 03:20:07 +02:00
nf_nat_helper.h netfilter: add missing includes to a number of header-files. 2019-08-13 12:14:39 +02:00
nf_nat_masquerade.h netfilter: update include directives. 2019-09-13 12:33:06 +02:00
nf_nat_redirect.h netfilter: nft_redir: use struct nf_nat_range2 throughout and deduplicate eval call-backs 2023-11-20 11:08:29 +01:00
nf_queue.h netfilter: nf_queue: fix possible use-after-free 2022-03-08 19:12:45 +01:00
nf_reject.h netfilter: add missing includes to a number of header-files. 2019-08-13 12:14:39 +02:00
nf_socket.h netfilter: Decrease code duplication regarding transparent socket option 2018-06-03 00:02:01 +02:00
nf_synproxy.h netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers. 2019-09-13 12:47:36 +02:00
nf_tables.h netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: split gc into unlink and reclaim phase 2026-04-18 10:33:22 +02:00
nf_tables_core.h netfilter: nft_payload: move struct nft_payload_set definition where it belongs 2024-06-16 13:39:50 +02:00
nf_tables_ipv4.h netfilter: nf_tables: convert pktinfo->tprot_set to flags field 2022-07-12 16:34:55 +02:00
nf_tables_ipv6.h netfilter: nf_tables: convert pktinfo->tprot_set to flags field 2022-07-12 16:34:55 +02:00
nf_tables_offload.h netfilter: nf_tables: bail out early if hardware offload is not supported 2022-06-14 18:36:17 +02:00
nf_tproxy.h netfilter: tproxy: fix deadlock due to missing BH disable 2023-03-17 08:48:55 +01:00
nft_fib.h netfilter: nftables: add nft_parse_register_store() and use it 2021-01-27 23:16:02 +01:00
nft_meta.h netfilter: nftables: add nft_parse_register_store() and use it 2021-01-27 23:16:02 +01:00
nft_reject.h netfilter: add missing includes to a number of header-files. 2019-08-13 12:14:39 +02:00
xt_rateest.h netfilter: make xt_rateest hash table per net 2018-03-05 23:15:44 +01:00