Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2d ago
WARM2d

[PATCH nf] netfilter: ipset: fix race between dump and ip_set_list resize

From: Xiang Mei <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-25 01:00:10
Also in: lkml, netfilter-devel
Subsystem: netfilter, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

The release path of ip_set_dump_do() and ip_set_dump_done() read
inst->ip_set_list via ip_set_ref_netlink(), a plain rcu_dereference_raw()
of the array pointer. These run from netlink_recvmsg() without the nfnl
mutex and without an RCU read-side critical section.

A concurrent ip_set_create() can grow the array: it publishes the new
array, calls synchronize_net() and then kvfree()s the old one. Since the
dump paths read the array outside any RCU reader, synchronize_net() does
not wait for them and the old array can be freed while they still index
into it, causing a use-after-free.

The dumped set itself stays pinned via set->ref_netlink, so only the
array load needs protecting. Take rcu_read_lock() around it, matching
ip_set_get_byname() and __ip_set_put_byindex().

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ip_set_dump_do (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:1697)
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800b5c4018 by task exploit/150
  Call Trace:
   ...
   kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
   ip_set_dump_do (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:1697)
   netlink_dump (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2325)
   netlink_recvmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1976)
   sock_recvmsg (net/socket.c:1159)
   __sys_recvfrom (net/socket.c:2315)
   ...
  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ... KASAN NOPTI
  KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x02d6...d0-0x02d6...d7]
  RIP: 0010:ip_set_dump_do (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:1698)
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Fixes: 8a02bdd50b2e ("netfilter: ipset: Fix calling ip_set() macro at dumping")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <redacted>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <redacted>
---
 net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
index a531b654b8d9..6cfad152d7d1 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
@@ -1480,7 +1480,11 @@ ip_set_dump_done(struct netlink_callback *cb)
 		struct ip_set_net *inst =
 			(struct ip_set_net *)cb->args[IPSET_CB_NET];
 		ip_set_id_t index = (ip_set_id_t)cb->args[IPSET_CB_INDEX];
-		struct ip_set *set = ip_set_ref_netlink(inst, index);
+		struct ip_set *set;
+
+		rcu_read_lock();
+		set = ip_set_ref_netlink(inst, index);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 
 		if (set->variant->uref)
 			set->variant->uref(set, cb, false);
@@ -1686,7 +1690,9 @@ ip_set_dump_do(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 release_refcount:
 	/* If there was an error or set is done, release set */
 	if (ret || !cb->args[IPSET_CB_ARG0]) {
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		set = ip_set_ref_netlink(inst, index);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		if (set->variant->uref)
 			set->variant->uref(set, cb, false);
 		pr_debug("release set %s\n", set->name);
-- 
2.43.0
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help