From: "Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com,
tgopinath@linux.microsoft.com, kys@microsoft.com,
"Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH nf] netfilter: ipset: fix refcount race between list:set GC and swap
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:38:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722223832.3524006-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
__ip_set_put_byindex() resolved the index to a set pointer under RCU,
then took ip_set_ref_lock in __ip_set_put() to decrement set->ref.
ip_set_swap() holds that same lock while swapping both the ip_set_list
slots and the two sets' ref counters, so it can interleave between the
dereference and the lock acquisition, leaving the caller to decrement a
set whose reference already moved to the other index and hit
BUG_ON(set->ref == 0). list_set_gc() reaches this from timer softirq,
which the nfnl mutex does not serialize against swap: an expiring
list:set member calls list_set_del() -> ip_set_put_byindex() while
IPSET_CMD_SWAP runs on the referenced sets.
Resolve the index and decrement under ip_set_ref_lock, as ip_set_swap()
already does, keeping the refcount tied to the index rather than to a
stale set pointer.
kernel BUG at net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:685!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
RIP: 0010:ip_set_put_byindex (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:870)
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
list_set_del (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:159)
set_cleanup_entries (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:181)
list_set_gc (net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c:578)
call_timer_fn (kernel/time/timer.c:1748)
__run_timers (kernel/time/timer.c:1799 kernel/time/timer.c:2374)
run_timer_softirq (kernel/time/timer.c:2405)
</IRQ>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Fixes: 9076aea76538 ("netfilter: ipset: Increase the number of maximal sets automatically")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
index 6cfad152d7d1..16d33c3e28cf 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
@@ -679,11 +679,18 @@ __ip_set_get(struct ip_set *set)
}
static void
-__ip_set_put(struct ip_set *set)
+__ip_set_put_locked(struct ip_set *set)
{
- write_lock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock);
+ lockdep_assert_held(&ip_set_ref_lock);
BUG_ON(set->ref == 0);
set->ref--;
+}
+
+static void
+__ip_set_put(struct ip_set *set)
+{
+ write_lock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock);
+ __ip_set_put_locked(set);
write_unlock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock);
}
@@ -854,11 +861,11 @@ __ip_set_put_byindex(struct ip_set_net *inst, ip_set_id_t index)
{
struct ip_set *set;
- rcu_read_lock();
- set = rcu_dereference(inst->ip_set_list)[index];
+ write_lock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock);
+ set = ip_set(inst, index);
if (set)
- __ip_set_put(set);
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ __ip_set_put_locked(set);
+ write_unlock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock);
}
void
--
2.43.0
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