From: Aohan Mei nft_flow_offload_init() bumps the flowtable use count with nft_use_inc() before calling nf_ct_netns_get(). When the latter fails, the error is returned as-is and the reference is leaked. The upper layers do not balance it either: nf_tables_newexpr() clears expr->ops when the expression init callback fails, so the nft_expr_more() iteration in nft_rule_expr_deactivate() and nf_tables_rule_destroy() stops right before the failed expression and its ->destroy callback, which would drop the reference, never runs. Each failed rule addition therefore leaks one flowtable reference and the flowtable can no longer be removed: NFT_MSG_DELFLOWTABLE keeps reporting -EBUSY even though no rule references it. Save the nf_ct_netns_get() return value and undo the nft_use_inc() when it fails, restoring the inc/dec pairing within nft_flow_offload_init() itself. Fixes: a3c90f7a2323 ("netfilter: nf_tables: flow offload expression") Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: CodeBuddy:Kimi-K3 Signed-off-by: Aohan Mei --- net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c b/net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c index 32b4281038dd..d3c5651dd699 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static int nft_flow_offload_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_flow_offload *priv = nft_expr_priv(expr); u8 genmask = nft_genmask_next(ctx->net); struct nft_flowtable *flowtable; + int err; if (!tb[NFTA_FLOW_TABLE_NAME]) return -EINVAL; @@ -174,7 +175,11 @@ static int nft_flow_offload_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, priv->flowtable = flowtable; - return nf_ct_netns_get(ctx->net, ctx->family); + err = nf_ct_netns_get(ctx->net, ctx->family); + if (err < 0) + nft_use_dec(&flowtable->use); + + return err; } static void nft_flow_offload_deactivate(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, -- 2.43.7