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| author | Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> | 2026-03-03 16:31:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2026-03-13 17:20:45 +0100 |
| commit | c12d570d71920903a1a0468b7d13b085203d0c93 (patch) | |
| tree | 5af377cac1ed7186a903cda7bf8912fc5ba10aac /.clippy.toml | |
| parent | dcba62d4fadedd7b22a6719ae486559dd2254023 (diff) | |
netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: split gc into unlink and reclaim phase
[ Upstream commit 9df95785d3d8302f7c066050117b04cd3c2048c2 ]
Yiming Qian reports Use-after-free in the pipapo set type:
Under a large number of expired elements, commit-time GC can run for a very
long time in a non-preemptible context, triggering soft lockup warnings and
RCU stall reports (local denial of service).
We must split GC in an unlink and a reclaim phase.
We cannot queue elements for freeing until pointers have been swapped.
Expired elements are still exposed to both the packet path and userspace
dumpers via the live copy of the data structure.
call_rcu() does not protect us: dump operations or element lookups starting
after call_rcu has fired can still observe the free'd element, unless the
commit phase has made enough progress to swap the clone and live pointers
before any new reader has picked up the old version.
This a similar approach as done recently for the rbtree backend in commit
35f83a75529a ("netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: don't gc elements on insert").
Fixes: 3c4287f62044 ("nf_tables: Add set type for arbitrary concatenation of ranges")
Reported-by: Yiming Qian <yimingqian591@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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