linux/net
Jamal Hadi Salim a347304b2c net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers
Another challenge with unlocked filters.
There is a short window in tc_new_tfilter where a tcf_proto can be found
and briefly referenced by a totally unrelated, unlocked classifier's request
and cause a race.

Feng created a poc which created this race with two threads, one creating a
u32 filter and other a flower filter in the same chain/prio:

1. Both threads enter tc_new_tfilter, both find the chain empty, both
   drop filter_chain_lock
2. u32 finishes tcf_proto_create("u32") first, calls
   tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique() -> inserts u32_tp into the chain
3. flower finishes tcf_proto_create("flower") later, calls
   tcf_chain_tp_insert_unique() -> tcf_chain_tp_find() now sees u32_tp
   already there, takes a reference on it, destroys flower's own tp_new
   and returns u32_tp to the caller.

Flower then hits the kind mismatch check (because it requested for kind
"flower" but tp->ops->kind is "u32") and goes through the errout path
which calls tcf_proto_put() on u32_tp. If the u32 thread has already
gone through its own errout (its change() call failed on the PoC's empty
options) and dropped its create and insert refs, flower's put is the
last one and drops u32_tp's refcnt to zero.

At this point tp->ops->destroy() runs in a context that never took
rtnl_lock. When that happens, it might cause a UAF like the following
(illustrated by the PoC):

[  +0.000710] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in u32_init (net/sched/cls_u32.c:393)
[  +0.000281] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888120022f00 by task poc_feng_xue/524

  Call Trace:
   u32_init (net/sched/cls_u32.c:393)
   tc_new_tfilter (net/sched/cls_api.c:2378)

  Allocated by task 526:
   u32_init (net/sched/cls_u32.c:378)
   tc_new_tfilter (net/sched/cls_api.c:2378)

  Freed by task 522:
   kfree
   u32_destroy (net/sched/cls_u32.c:662)
   tcf_proto_destroy (net/sched/cls_api.c:446)
   tcf_proto_put (net/sched/cls_api.c:459)
   tc_new_tfilter (net/sched/cls_api.c:2459)

Fix this by having tcf_proto_destroy() take rtnl_lock around
tp->ops->destroy() for locked classifiers whenever rtnl is not held.

To explain why I used a temp variable "not_lockless" I'd like to point to a
semi-related note on rtnl_held vs TCF_PROTO_OPS_DOIT_UNLOCKED (adding here
for future cleanup if deemed necessary):
The rtnl_held parameter and the TCF_PROTO_OPS_DOIT_UNLOCKED flag are
redundant sources of truth for whether rtnl_lock is held. Among the nine
classifier destroy(..rtnl_held..) callbacks, only flower consults the
rtnl_held parameter which it propagates to tc_setup_cb_destroy()
and tc_setup_cb_call(). The other eight (u32, flow, bpf, cgroup, route, basic,
fw, mall) ignore it entirely;-> those that call tc_setup_cb_destroy()
(u32, bpf, mall) hardcode true always instead of forwarding the parameter.

A future cleanup should remove the rtnl_held parameter from the destroy callback
signature entirely and have callers rely solely on their knowledge whether
they are running in an unlocked context.

Fixes: 12db03b65c ("net: sched: extend proto ops to support unlocked classifiers")
Reported-by: Feng Xue <feng.xue@outlook.com>
Tested-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801125632.360365-1-jhs@mojatatu.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-08-04 16:35:45 +02:00
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6lowpan 6lowpan: fix NHC entry use-after-free on error path 2026-06-11 15:27:07 -07:00
9p 9p: Add missing read barrier in virtio zero-copy path 2026-06-21 05:22:57 +00:00
802 appletalk: move the protocol out of tree 2026-06-16 14:37:06 -07:00
8021q vlan: defer real device state propagation to netdev_work 2026-06-25 10:18:40 -07:00
atm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-06-16 14:59:58 -07:00
batman-adv batman-adv: dat: fix tie-break for candidate selection 2026-07-06 07:18:59 +02:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: SCO: give the socket its own sco_conn reference 2026-07-28 16:13:48 -04:00
bpf bpf: Fix partial copy of non-linear test_run output 2026-06-21 17:55:06 -07:00
bridge net: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire 2026-07-31 16:31:16 -07:00
can can: isotp: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in module init 2026-07-29 11:26:41 +02:00
ceph libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE 2026-07-23 20:29:42 +02:00
core net: devmem: prevent net-iov / page mixing 2026-07-30 16:27:03 -07:00
dcb Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
devlink devlink: fix net namespace reference leak in reload 2026-07-31 18:23:44 -07:00
dns_resolver net/dns_resolver: use kasprintf + kmemdup_nul to simplify dns_query 2026-06-04 18:39:29 -07:00
dsa net: dsa: Fix skb ownership in taggers 2026-06-27 15:44:12 -07:00
ethernet bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse() 2026-03-16 19:29:45 -07:00
ethtool ethtool: rss: Fix hfunc and input_xfrm parsing on big endian 2026-07-09 11:38:30 +02:00
handshake handshake: Require admin permission for DONE command 2026-06-12 15:45:44 -07:00
hsr net: hsr: fix memory leak on slave unregistration by removing synced VLANs 2026-07-22 10:24:44 -07:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: allow legacy LLSEC ADD/DEL ops to pass strict validation 2026-06-19 23:02:42 +02:00
ife net: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode() 2026-06-13 17:34:39 -07:00
ipv4 udp: fix potential use-after-free in tunnel segmentation 2026-08-03 18:32:47 -07:00
ipv6 ipv6: fix Route Information option length validation 2026-08-03 14:26:14 -07:00
iucv net/af_iucv: fix NULL deref in afiucv_hs_callback_syn() 2026-07-21 13:36:35 -07:00
kcm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-06-16 14:59:58 -07:00
key ipsec-2026-06-22 2026-06-23 16:22:24 -07:00
l2tp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-06-04 15:29:04 -07:00
l3mdev
lapb treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
llc llc: fix SAP refcount leak when creating incoming sockets 2026-07-17 13:17:46 +02:00
mac80211 wifi: mac80211: validate individual TWT params before driver setup 2026-07-28 15:34:31 +02:00
mac802154 mac802154: hold an interface reference across the scan worker 2026-07-23 10:37:46 -07:00
mctp mctp: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in mctp_device_init() 2026-07-23 09:17:36 -07:00
mpls net: mpls: initialize rtm_tos in mpls_getroute() 2026-07-28 11:06:06 +02:00
mptcp mptcp: fix BUILD_BUG_ON on legacy ARM config 2026-07-23 10:50:38 -07:00
ncsi net: ncsi: fix skb leak in error paths 2026-03-06 17:34:48 -08:00
netfilter netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload 2026-07-23 18:17:55 +02:00
netlabel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-06-11 14:33:35 -07:00
netlink Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2026-05-28 14:02:21 -07:00
nfc nfc: nci: uart: Constify struct tty_ldisc_ops 2026-06-11 20:21:32 +02:00
nsh
openvswitch net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract() 2026-08-04 13:02:17 +02:00
packet packet: synchronize pressure clearing with ring reconfiguration 2026-08-04 11:38:02 +02:00
phonet phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init() 2026-07-23 10:28:50 -07:00
psample net: psample: fix info leak in PSAMPLE_ATTR_DATA 2026-06-17 16:35:50 -07:00
psp psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown 2026-07-29 16:48:16 -07:00
qrtr net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace 2026-07-23 07:44:00 -07:00
rds rds: tcp: hold the RCU lock across ipv6_chk_addr() in rds_tcp_laddr_check() 2026-07-23 14:11:37 -07:00
rfkill Replace <linux/mod_devicetable.h> by more specific <linux/device-id/*.h> (c files) 2026-07-03 07:38:17 +02:00
rxrpc rxrpc: fix io_thread race in rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread() 2026-07-21 11:52:29 +02:00
sched net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers 2026-08-04 16:35:45 +02:00
sctp sctp: keep chunk->transport in step with the list it is queued on 2026-08-03 14:23:05 -07:00
shaper net: shaper: add a note that we expect cap dumps to be tiny 2026-06-11 12:55:23 +02:00
smc net: smc: fix splice entry lifetime imbalance in smc_rx_splice 2026-08-03 18:27:51 -07:00
strparser net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() 2026-04-14 12:37:00 +02:00
sunrpc SUNRPC: pin upper rpc_clnt across the TLS connect_worker 2026-07-08 14:07:19 -04:00
switchdev bridge: No DEV_PATH_BR_VLAN_UNTAG_HW for dsa foreign 2026-03-19 13:14:00 +01:00
tipc tipc: avoid use-after-free in poll trace queue dumps 2026-07-27 15:18:59 -07:00
tls tls: device: push pending open record on splice EOF 2026-07-21 14:50:50 -07:00
unix af_unix: fix listen() succeeding on sockets in the wrong state 2026-07-24 15:10:05 -07:00
vmw_vsock vsock/virtio: avoid refilling the RX queue after teardown 2026-08-03 16:28:58 -07:00
wireless wifi: cfg80211: publish PMSR request before starting the driver 2026-07-28 15:08:57 +02:00
x25 net/x25: fix use-after-free of the socket by its timers 2026-07-30 18:46:45 -07:00
xdp xsk: validate metadata when processing requests 2026-08-03 16:43:54 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert 2026-07-06 08:30:02 +02:00
compat.c net: Remove support for AIO on sockets 2026-05-29 14:05:30 +08:00
devres.c
Kconfig appletalk: move the protocol out of tree 2026-06-16 14:37:06 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile appletalk: move the protocol out of tree 2026-06-16 14:37:06 -07:00
socket.c Networking changes for 7.2. 2026-06-17 08:17:00 +01:00
sysctl_net.c