From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"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>, Paul Blakey <paulb@mellanox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com>,
syzbot+6cc37aba98dac721c415@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH net] net/sched: act_ct: don't WARN on benign flow_offload_alloc() failure
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:08:16 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260915150816.36487-1-ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com> (raw)
flow_offload_alloc() returns NULL when the conntrack entry is dying
(e.g. raced with a conntrack flush) or when the GFP_ATOMIC allocation
fails; both are expected under load and neither is a kernel bug. This
path runs from softirq on every committed packet, so with
panic_on_warn=1 an unprivileged user can panic the box just by racing
a conntrack flush against a `tc ... action ct commit` classifier.
Reproduced with a custom repro under QEMU: a small, fixed set of UDP
flows through `tc filter ... action ct commit` on lo, raced against
threads flooding bare ctnetlink CT_DELETE (flush) requests. Hits
WARNING: net/sched/act_ct.c:437 (tcf_ct_flow_table_add(), inlined
into tcf_ct_act() in this build) within ~15s on the unpatched kernel;
same setup is clean on the patched kernel. The fix itself is
behavior-preserving: both branches already did `goto err_alloc`
before and after, only the WARN is removed.
Fixes: 64ff70b80fd4 ("net/sched: act_ct: Offload established connections to flow table")
Reported-by: syzbot+6cc37aba98dac721c415@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6cc37aba98dac721c415
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com>
---
net/sched/act_ct.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/act_ct.c b/net/sched/act_ct.c
index 9080cb386c16..55f3521edb4c 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ct.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ct.c
@@ -432,11 +432,10 @@ static void tcf_ct_flow_table_add(struct tcf_ct_flow_table *ct_ft,
if (test_and_set_bit(IPS_OFFLOAD_BIT, &ct->status))
return;
+ /* NULL if ct is dying (raced flush) or the atomic alloc failed. */
entry = flow_offload_alloc(ct);
- if (!entry) {
- WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ if (!entry)
goto err_alloc;
- }
if (tcp) {
ct->proto.tcp.seen[0].flags |= IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_BE_LIBERAL;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 15:08 Nguyen Ngoc Thang [this message]
2026-09-18 15:15 ` Simon Horman
2026-09-18 23:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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