CVE-2024-35899

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nftables: flush pending destroy work before exitnet release

Similar to 2c9f0293280e ("netfilter: nftables: flush pending destroy work before netlink notifier") to address a race between exitnet and the destroy workqueue.

The trace below shows an element to be released via destroy workqueue while exit_net path (triggered via module removal) has already released the set that is used in such transaction.

[ 1360.547789] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nftablestransdestroywork+0x3f5/0x590 [nftables] [ 1360.547861] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888140500cc0 by task kworker/4:1/152465 [ 1360.547870] CPU: 4 PID: 152465 Comm: kworker/4:1 Not tainted 6.8.0+ #359 [ 1360.547882] Workqueue: events nftablestransdestroywork [nftables] [ 1360.547984] Call Trace: [ 1360.547991] <TASK> [ 1360.547998] dumpstacklvl+0x53/0x70 [ 1360.548014] printreport+0xc4/0x610 [ 1360.548026] ? virtaddrvalid+0xba/0x160 [ 1360.548040] ? _pfxrawspinlockirqsave+0x10/0x10 [ 1360.548054] ? nftablestransdestroywork+0x3f5/0x590 [nftables] [ 1360.548176] kasanreport+0xae/0xe0 [ 1360.548189] ? nftablestransdestroywork+0x3f5/0x590 [nftables] [ 1360.548312] nftablestransdestroywork+0x3f5/0x590 [nftables] [ 1360.548447] ? _pfxnftablestransdestroywork+0x10/0x10 [nftables] [ 1360.548577] ? rawspinunlockirq+0x18/0x30 [ 1360.548591] processonework+0x2f1/0x670 [ 1360.548610] workerthread+0x4d3/0x760 [ 1360.548627] ? _pfxworkerthread+0x10/0x10 [ 1360.548640] kthread+0x16b/0x1b0 [ 1360.548653] ? _pfxkthread+0x10/0x10 [ 1360.548665] retfromfork+0x2f/0x50 [ 1360.548679] ? _pfxkthread+0x10/0x10 [ 1360.548690] retfromfork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 1360.548707] </TASK>

[ 1360.548719] Allocated by task 192061: [ 1360.548726] kasansavestack+0x20/0x40 [ 1360.548739] kasansavetrack+0x14/0x30 [ 1360.548750] kasankmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 [ 1360.548760] _kmallocnode+0x1f1/0x450 [ 1360.548771] nftablesnewset+0x10c7/0x1b50 [nftables] [ 1360.548883] nfnetlinkrcvbatch+0xbc4/0xdc0 [nfnetlink] [ 1360.548909] nfnetlinkrcv+0x1a8/0x1e0 [nfnetlink] [ 1360.548927] netlinkunicast+0x367/0x4f0 [ 1360.548935] netlinksendmsg+0x34b/0x610 [ 1360.548944] _syssendmsg+0x4d4/0x510 [ 1360.548953] _syssendmsg+0xc9/0x120 [ 1360.548961] _syssendmsg+0xbe/0x140 [ 1360.548971] dosyscall64+0x55/0x120 [ 1360.548982] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x55/0x5d

[ 1360.548994] Freed by task 192222: [ 1360.548999] kasansavestack+0x20/0x40 [ 1360.549009] kasansavetrack+0x14/0x30 [ 1360.549019] kasansavefreeinfo+0x3b/0x60 [ 1360.549028] poisonslabobject+0x100/0x180 [ 1360.549036] _kasanslabfree+0x14/0x30 [ 1360.549042] kfree+0xb6/0x260 [ 1360.549049] _nftreleasetable+0x473/0x6a0 [nftables] [ 1360.549131] nftablesexitnet+0x170/0x240 [nftables] [ 1360.549221] opsexitlist+0x50/0xa0 [ 1360.549229] freeexitlist+0x101/0x140 [ 1360.549236] unregisterpernetoperations+0x107/0x160 [ 1360.549245] unregisterpernetsubsys+0x1c/0x30 [ 1360.549254] nftablesmoduleexit+0x43/0x80 [nftables] [ 1360.549345] _dosysdeletemodule+0x253/0x370 [ 1360.549352] dosyscall64+0x55/0x120 [ 1360.549360] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x55/0x5d

(gdb) list *_nftreleasetable+0x473 0x1e033 is in _nftreleasetable (net/netfilter/nftablesapi.c:11354). 11349 listforeachentrysafe(flowtable, nf, &table->flowtables, list) { 11350 listdel(&flowtable->list); 11351 nftusedec(&table->use); 11352 nftablesflowtabledestroy(flowtable); 11353 } 11354 listforeachentrysafe(set, ns, &table->sets, list) { 11355 listdel(&set->list); 11356 nftusedec(&table->use); 11357 if (set->flags & (NFTSETMAP | NFTSETOBJECT)) 11358 nftmap_deactivat ---truncated---