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From: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@gmail.com>
To: "Pablo Neira Ayuso" <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	"Florian Westphal" <fw@strlen.de>, "Phil Sutter" <phil@nwl.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>,
	"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: wait for RCU readers before freeing the hash
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:52:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260926175209.2618167-1-nicoyip.dev@gmail.com> (raw)

nf_ct_get_tuple_skb() calls into conntrack under rcu_read_lock() without
holding a module reference. CAKE can use this hook to look up a packet
without an attached conntrack, even during nf_conntrack module teardown.

nf_conntrack_cleanup_end() clears nf_ct_hook but frees nf_conntrack_hash
without waiting for existing readers. The grace period in per-net cleanup
runs while the hook is still published, so a later reader can race as
follows:

  CPU 0 (packet path)                 CPU 1 (module teardown)
  rcu_read_lock()
  ct_hook = rcu_dereference(nf_ct_hook)
                                     RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_ct_hook, NULL)
                                     kvfree(nf_conntrack_hash)
  ct_hook->get_tuple_skb()
    nf_conntrack_find_get()
      access freed hash bucket
  rcu_read_unlock()

The same missing grace period affects initialization failure after
nf_conntrack_init_end() publishes the hook. During module teardown,
KASAN reported:

  BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in __nf_conntrack_find_get.isra.0
  Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900012e2ae0 by task poc/90
  Call Trace:
   __nf_conntrack_find_get.isra.0+0xf87/0x10c0 [nf_conntrack]
   nf_conntrack_get_tuple_skb+0x255/0x400 [nf_conntrack]
   nf_ct_get_tuple_skb+0x75/0xb0
   cake_hash+0xfdb/0x1e10
   cake_enqueue+0x5cd/0x36e0
   dev_qdisc_enqueue+0x40/0x170
   __dev_queue_xmit+0x1e90/0x3110

Wait for an RCU grace period after clearing nf_ct_hook, before releasing
the hash table and the remaining conntrack resources.

Fixes: b60a60405fb9 ("netfilter: Add nf_ct_get_tuple_skb global lookup function")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@gmail.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index d0d9e5ea84a0..b07e94e75d4d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -2455,6 +2455,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_cleanup_start(void)
 void nf_conntrack_cleanup_end(void)
 {
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_ct_hook, NULL);
+	synchronize_rcu();
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&conntrack_gc_work.dwork);
 	kvfree(nf_conntrack_hash);
 
-- 
2.43.0


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