[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.15] netfilter: nfnetlink_log: wait for rcu grace period before freeing pernet state
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-08-31 13:52:32
Also in:
linux-patches, lkml, netfilter-devel, stable
Subsystem:
netfilter, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> [ Upstream commit 33d1469b0124cc0baaea7a2032123b77a81e0940 ] sashiko reports: "nfnl_log_net_exit() calls nf_log_unset(), which clears the logger pointer without an RCU grace period. Immediately after, ops_free_list() frees the per-net state while concurrent packets might still be executing nf_log_packet() under rcu_read_lock()." Clear the pointer via .pre_exit to make sure rcu readers have completed before pernet storage is free'd. The change in nf_log_syslog.c is only done for consistency: it doesn't use pernet data. Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260731151806.849724-1-pablo%40netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> --- LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus: The background searches finished with no hits: - **Local tree:** `git log --grep` for the fix subject, `nfnl_log_net_pre_exit`, and related terms returned nothing — the patch is not in `v6.18.44`. - **Patchwork:** The kernel.org search also came up empty (no matching nfnetlink entries). That lines up with the earlier analysis: the buggy code is still present in this tree, and the fix looks like a good backport candidate (**YES**). net/netfilter/nf_log_syslog.c | 4 ++-- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 13 +++++++++---- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_log_syslog.c b/net/netfilter/nf_log_syslog.c
index 6fa0812cd79ca..07a4f4725fcb2 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_log_syslog.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_log_syslog.c@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ static int __net_init nf_log_syslog_net_init(struct net *net) return ret; } -static void __net_exit nf_log_syslog_net_exit(struct net *net) +static void __net_exit nf_log_syslog_net_pre_exit(struct net *net) { nf_log_unset(net, &nf_ip_logger); nf_log_unset(net, &nf_arp_logger);
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ static void __net_exit nf_log_syslog_net_exit(struct net *net) static struct pernet_operations nf_log_syslog_net_ops = { .init = nf_log_syslog_net_init, - .exit = nf_log_syslog_net_exit, + .pre_exit = nf_log_syslog_net_pre_exit, }; static int __init nf_log_syslog_init(void)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
index a6989966d80d5..68e5429338330 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c@@ -1160,21 +1160,26 @@ static int __net_init nfnl_log_net_init(struct net *net) return 0; } -static void __net_exit nfnl_log_net_exit(struct net *net) +static void __net_exit nfnl_log_net_pre_exit(struct net *net) { - struct nfnl_log_net *log = nfnl_log_pernet(net); - unsigned int i; - #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS remove_proc_entry("nfnetlink_log", net->nf.proc_netfilter); #endif nf_log_unset(net, &nfulnl_logger); +} + +static void __net_exit nfnl_log_net_exit(struct net *net) +{ + struct nfnl_log_net *log = nfnl_log_pernet(net); + unsigned int i; + for (i = 0; i < INSTANCE_BUCKETS; i++) WARN_ON_ONCE(!hlist_empty(&log->instance_table[i])); } static struct pernet_operations nfnl_log_net_ops = { .init = nfnl_log_net_init, + .pre_exit = nfnl_log_net_pre_exit, .exit = nfnl_log_net_exit, .id = &nfnl_log_net_id, .size = sizeof(struct nfnl_log_net),
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