linux.git/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c, branch v5.10.258

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix entry leak in bridge verdict error path

2026-04-18T08:30:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit f1ba83755d81c6fc66ac7acd723d238f974091e9 ]

nfqnl_recv_verdict() calls find_dequeue_entry() to remove the queue
entry from the queue data structures, taking ownership of the entry.
For PF_BRIDGE packets, it then calls nfqa_parse_bridge() to parse VLAN
attributes.  If nfqa_parse_bridge() returns an error (e.g. NFQA_VLAN
present but NFQA_VLAN_TCI missing), the function returns immediately
without freeing the dequeued entry or its sk_buff.

This leaks the nf_queue_entry, its associated sk_buff, and all held
references (net_device refcounts, struct net refcount).  Repeated
triggering exhausts kernel memory.

Fix this by dropping the entry via nfqnl_reinject() with NF_DROP verdict
on the error path, consistent with other error handling in this file.

Fixes: 8d45ff22f1b4 ("netfilter: bridge: nf queue verdict to use NFQA_VLAN and NFQA_L2HDR")
Reviewed-by: David Dull 
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: acquire rcu_read_lock() in instance_destroy_rcu()

2024-06-16T11:32:28+00:00

[ Upstream commit dc21c6cc3d6986d938efbf95de62473982c98dec ]

syzbot reported that nf_reinject() could be called without rcu_read_lock() :

WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
6.9.0-rc7-syzkaller-02060-g5c1672705a1a #0 Not tainted

net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:263 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
2 locks held by syz-executor.4/13427:
  #0: ffffffff8e334f60 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:329 [inline]
  #0: ffffffff8e334f60 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2190 [inline]
  #0: ffffffff8e334f60 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_core+0xa86/0x1830 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2471
  #1: ffff88801ca92958 (&inst->lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline]
  #1: ffff88801ca92958 (&inst->lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: nfqnl_flush net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:405 [inline]
  #1: ffff88801ca92958 (&inst->lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: instance_destroy_rcu+0x30/0x220 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:172

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 13427 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc7-syzkaller-02060-g5c1672705a1a #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024
Call Trace:
 
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
  dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:114
  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x221/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6712
  nf_reinject net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:323 [inline]
  nfqnl_reinject+0x6ec/0x1120 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:397
  nfqnl_flush net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:410 [inline]
  instance_destroy_rcu+0x1ae/0x220 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:172
  rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2196 [inline]
  rcu_core+0xafd/0x1830 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2471
  handle_softirqs+0x2d6/0x990 kernel/softirq.c:554
  __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:588 [inline]
  invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:428 [inline]
  __irq_exit_rcu+0xf4/0x1c0 kernel/softirq.c:637
  irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:649
  instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1043 [inline]
  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1043
 
 

Fixes: 9872bec773c2 ("[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: use RCU for queue instances hash")
Reported-by: syzbot 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: add helper function to set up the nfnetlink header and use it

2022-08-25T09:38:11+00:00

[ Upstream commit 19c28b1374fb1073a9ec873a6c10bf5f16b10b9d ]

This patch adds a helper function to set up the netlink and nfnetlink headers.
Update existing codebase to use it.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nf_queue: do not allow packet truncation below transport header offset

2022-08-03T10:00:49+00:00

[ Upstream commit 99a63d36cb3ed5ca3aa6fcb64cffbeaf3b0fb164 ]

Domingo Dirutigliano and Nicola Guerrera report kernel panic when
sending nf_queue verdict with 1-byte nfta_payload attribute.

The IP/IPv6 stack pulls the IP(v6) header from the packet after the
input hook.

If user truncates the packet below the header size, this skb_pull() will
result in a malformed skb (skb->len < 0).

Fixes: 7af4cc3fa158 ("[NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlink_queue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlink")
Reported-by: Domingo Dirutigliano 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Reviewed-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nf_queue: fix possible use-after-free

2022-03-08T18:09:33+00:00

commit c3873070247d9e3c7a6b0cf9bf9b45e8018427b1 upstream.

Eric Dumazet says:
  The sock_hold() side seems suspect, because there is no guarantee
  that sk_refcnt is not already 0.

On failure, we cannot queue the packet and need to indicate an
error.  The packet will be dropped by the caller.

v2: split skb prefetch hunk into separate change

Fixes: 271b72c7fa82c ("udp: RCU handling for Unicast packets.")
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfilter: fix regression in looped (broad|multi)cast's MAC handling

2021-12-29T11:25:55+00:00

[ Upstream commit ebb966d3bdfed581ecccbb4a7432341baf7619b4 ]

In commit 5648b5e1169f ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix OOB when mac
header was cleared"), the test for non-empty MAC header introduced in
commit 2c38de4c1f8da7 ("netfilter: fix looped (broad|multi)cast's MAC
handling") has been replaced with a test for a set MAC header.

This breaks the case when the MAC header has been reset (using
skb_reset_mac_header), as is the case with looped-back multicast
packets.  As a result, the packets ending up in NFQUEUE get a bogus
hwaddr interpreted from the first bytes of the IP header.

This patch adds a test for a non-empty MAC header in addition to the
test for a set MAC header.  The same two tests are also implemented in
nfnetlink_log.c, where the initial code of commit 2c38de4c1f8da7
("netfilter: fix looped (broad|multi)cast's MAC handling") has not been
touched, but where supposedly the same situation may happen.

Fixes: 5648b5e1169f ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix OOB when mac header was cleared")
Signed-off-by: Ignacy Gawędzki 
Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix OOB when mac header was cleared

2021-11-18T13:04:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5648b5e1169ff1d6d6a46c35c0b5fbebd2a5cbb2 ]

On 64bit platforms the MAC header is set to 0xffff on allocation and
also when a helper like skb_unset_mac_header() is called.

dev_parse_header may call skb_mac_header() which assumes valid mac offset:

 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in eth_header_parse+0x75/0x90
 Read of size 6 at addr ffff8881075a5c05 by task nf-queue/1364
 Call Trace:
  memcpy+0x20/0x60
  eth_header_parse+0x75/0x90
  __nfqnl_enqueue_packet+0x1a61/0x3380
  __nf_queue+0x597/0x1300
  nf_queue+0xf/0x40
  nf_hook_slow+0xed/0x190
  nf_hook+0x184/0x440
  ip_output+0x1c0/0x2a0
  nf_reinject+0x26f/0x700
  nfqnl_recv_verdict+0xa16/0x18b0
  nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x506/0xe70

The existing code only works if the skb has a mac header.

Fixes: 2c38de4c1f8da7 ("netfilter: fix looped (broad|multi)cast's MAC handling")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: nfnetlink: nfnetlink_unicast() reports EAGAIN instead of ENOBUFS

2020-08-28T18:11:58+00:00

Frontend callback reports EAGAIN to nfnetlink to retry a command, this
is used to signal that module autoloading is required. Unfortunately,
nlmsg_unicast() reports EAGAIN in case the receiver socket buffer gets
full, so it enters a busy-loop.

This patch updates nfnetlink_unicast() to turn EAGAIN into ENOBUFS and
to use nlmsg_unicast(). Remove the flags field in nfnetlink_unicast()
since this is always MSG_DONTWAIT in the existing code which is exactly
what nlmsg_unicast() passes to netlink_unicast() as parameter.

Fixes: 96518518cc41 ("netfilter: add nftables")
Reported-by: Phil Sutter 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage

2020-07-16T19:35:15+00:00

Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.

In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], remove all remaining
needless uses with the following script:

git grep '\buninitialized_var\b' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | \
	xargs perl -pi -e \
		's/\buninitialized_var\(([^\)]+)\)/\1/g;
		 s:\s*/\* (GCC be quiet|to make compiler happy) \*/$::g;'

drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c was manually tweaked to avoid
pathological white-space.

No outstanding warnings were found building allmodconfig with GCC 9.3.0
for x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, powerpc64le, s390x, mips, sparc64,
alpha, and m68k.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/

Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky  # drivers/infiniband and mlx4/mlx5
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe  # IB
Acked-by: Kalle Valo  # wireless drivers
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu  # erofs
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

netfilter: nf_queue: make nf_queue_entry_release_refs static

2020-03-29T14:28:29+00:00

This is a preparation patch, no logical changes.
Move free_entry into core and rename it to something more sensible.

Will ease followup patches which will complicate the refcount handling.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso