ctnetlink_get_expect() in the non-dump path calls nf_ct_expect_find_get() which only takes a reference on the expectation itself, not on exp->master. It then calls ctnetlink_exp_fill_info() which dereferences exp->master extensively (tuplehash, ct->ext via nfct_help()). A concurrent conntrack deletion through NFNL_SUBSYS_CTNETLINK (a different nfnetlink subsystem mutex than NFNL_SUBSYS_CTNETLINK_EXP) can free the master conntrack while the single GET is in progress, leading to use-after-free. In particular, kfree(ct->ext) is immediate and not RCU-deferred. Fix this by taking a reference on exp->master under rcu_read_lock (required for SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) before calling ctnetlink_exp_fill_info() and releasing it afterwards. KASAN report: [ 6.526107] ================================================================== [ 6.526345] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ctnetlink_dump_tuples_ip+0xbc/0x1f0 [ 6.526570] Read of size 2 at addr ffff8881042a8cb2 by task poc3/134 [ 6.526745] [ 6.526798] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 134 Comm: poc3 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc2+ #6 PREEMPTLAZY [ 6.526801] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 6.526805] Call Trace: [ 6.526808] [ 6.526809] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80 [ 6.526821] print_report+0xce/0x660 [ 6.526828] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526836] ? kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 [ 6.526841] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xef/0x1a0 [ 6.526848] ? ctnetlink_dump_tuples_ip+0xbc/0x1f0 [ 6.526850] kasan_report+0xce/0x100 [ 6.526852] ? ctnetlink_dump_tuples_ip+0xbc/0x1f0 [ 6.526855] ctnetlink_dump_tuples_ip+0xbc/0x1f0 [ 6.526858] ? __pfx_ctnetlink_dump_tuples_ip+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526860] ? ctnetlink_dump_tuples_proto+0x144/0x190 [ 6.526862] ? skb_put+0x72/0xb0 [ 6.526868] ctnetlink_dump_tuples+0x19/0x60 [ 6.526870] ctnetlink_exp_dump_tuple+0x6f/0xd0 [ 6.526872] ctnetlink_exp_dump_expect+0x315/0x660 [ 6.526875] ? __pfx_ctnetlink_exp_dump_expect+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526878] ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x1c6/0x590 [ 6.526885] ? kmalloc_reserve+0x75/0x160 [ 6.526887] ? skb_put+0x72/0xb0 [ 6.526889] ? __asan_memset+0x23/0x50 [ 6.526892] ? __nlmsg_put+0x97/0xb0 [ 6.526897] ctnetlink_exp_fill_info.constprop.0+0xf9/0x180 [ 6.526899] ctnetlink_get_expect+0x2f3/0x400 [ 6.526901] ? __pfx_ctnetlink_get_expect+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526903] ? __pfx___nla_validate_parse+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526912] ? mutex_lock+0x7e/0xd0 [ 6.526914] ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526917] nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x48e/0x510 [ 6.526922] ? __pfx_nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526925] ? __sys_sendmsg+0xf4/0x180 [ 6.526927] ? do_syscall_64+0xc3/0x6e0 [ 6.526930] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 6.526935] netlink_rcv_skb+0xc9/0x1f0 [ 6.526937] ? __pfx_nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526940] ? __pfx_netlink_rcv_skb+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526942] ? security_capable+0xda/0x160 [ 6.526947] nfnetlink_rcv+0xdb/0x220 [ 6.526951] ? __pfx___netlink_lookup+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526953] ? __pfx_nfnetlink_rcv+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526955] ? netlink_deliver_tap+0x5f/0x400 [ 6.526958] netlink_unicast+0x3ec/0x590 [ 6.526960] ? __pfx_netlink_unicast+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526961] ? __pfx___alloc_skb+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526963] ? __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x26f/0x560 [ 6.526966] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xef/0x1a0 [ 6.526969] ? __check_object_size+0x25f/0x450 [ 6.526973] netlink_sendmsg+0x397/0x690 [ 6.526975] ? __pfx_netlink_sendmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526977] ? __import_iovec+0x220/0x270 [ 6.526981] ? __check_object_size+0x4b/0x450 [ 6.526983] ____sys_sendmsg+0x538/0x550 [ 6.526987] ? __pfx_____sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526990] ? __pfx_copy_msghdr_from_user+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526992] ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10 [ 6.526998] ___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x170 [ 6.527000] ? __pfx____sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 6.527002] ? __pfx_do_wp_page+0x10/0x10 [ 6.527008] __sys_sendmsg+0xf4/0x180 [ 6.527010] ? __pfx___sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10 [ 6.527013] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x3b5/0x750 [ 6.527015] do_syscall_64+0xc3/0x6e0 [ 6.527017] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 6.527020] RIP: 0033:0x424304 [ 6.527025] Code: c2 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b5 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d 5d 1d 09 00 00 74 13 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 4c c3 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 89 55 [ 6.527027] RSP: 002b:00007ffcc8012368 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e [ 6.527033] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000424304 [ 6.527034] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffcc80123a0 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 6.527035] RBP: 00007ffcc80123e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000002 [ 6.527037] R10: 0000000020797380 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffcc80175c8 [ 6.527038] R13: 00007ffcc80175d8 R14: 00000000004b0828 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 6.527040] [ 6.527041] [ 6.537631] Allocated by task 131: [ 6.537736] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 [ 6.537853] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 [ 6.537970] __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6e/0x70 [ 6.538094] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x134/0x440 [ 6.538248] __nf_conntrack_alloc+0xa8/0x2b0 [ 6.538391] ctnetlink_create_conntrack+0xa1/0x900 [ 6.538547] ctnetlink_new_conntrack+0x3cf/0x7d0 [ 6.538687] nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x48e/0x510 [ 6.538810] netlink_rcv_skb+0xc9/0x1f0 [ 6.538926] nfnetlink_rcv+0xdb/0x220 [ 6.539036] netlink_unicast+0x3ec/0x590 [ 6.539155] netlink_sendmsg+0x397/0x690 [ 6.539285] ____sys_sendmsg+0x538/0x550 [ 6.539418] ___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x170 [ 6.539545] __sys_sendmsg+0xf4/0x180 [ 6.539658] do_syscall_64+0xc3/0x6e0 [ 6.539769] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 6.539916] [ 6.539967] Freed by task 0: [ 6.540053] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 [ 6.540165] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 [ 6.540281] kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 [ 6.540406] __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 [ 6.540523] slab_free_after_rcu_debug+0xad/0x1e0 [ 6.540664] rcu_core+0x5c3/0x9c0 [ 6.540769] handle_softirqs+0x148/0x460 [ 6.540892] __irq_exit_rcu+0x97/0xf0 [ 6.541004] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x71/0x90 [ 6.541149] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [ 6.541304] [ 6.541355] Last potentially related work creation: [ 6.541498] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 [ 6.541614] kasan_record_aux_stack+0x8c/0xa0 [ 6.541746] kmem_cache_free+0x1f5/0x440 [ 6.541865] nf_conntrack_free+0xc1/0x140 [ 6.541985] ctnetlink_del_conntrack+0x4c4/0x520 [ 6.542126] nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x48e/0x510 [ 6.542249] netlink_rcv_skb+0xc9/0x1f0 [ 6.542365] nfnetlink_rcv+0xdb/0x220 [ 6.542475] netlink_unicast+0x3ec/0x590 [ 6.542593] netlink_sendmsg+0x397/0x690 [ 6.542711] ____sys_sendmsg+0x538/0x550 [ 6.542830] ___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x170 [ 6.542940] __sys_sendmsg+0xf4/0x180 [ 6.543049] do_syscall_64+0xc3/0x6e0 [ 6.543157] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 6.543301] [ 6.543349] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881042a8c80 [ 6.543349] which belongs to the cache nf_conntrack of size 248 [ 6.543739] The buggy address is located 50 bytes inside of [ 6.543739] freed 248-byte region [ffff8881042a8c80, ffff8881042a8d78) [ 6.544101] [ 6.544152] The buggy address belongs to the physical page: [ 6.544316] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8881042a8500 pfn:0x1042a8 [ 6.544584] flags: 0x200000000000200(workingset|node=0|zone=2) [ 6.544759] page_type: f5(slab) [ 6.544859] raw: 0200000000000200 ffff88810485d500 ffff88810485fd10 ffff88810485fd10 [ 6.545083] raw: ffff8881042a8500 00000008000c0004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 [ 6.545308] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected [ 6.545469] [ 6.545521] Memory state around the buggy address: [ 6.545664] ffff8881042a8b80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 6.545878] ffff8881042a8c00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 6.546089] >ffff8881042a8c80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 6.546300] ^ [ 6.546442] ffff8881042a8d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc [ 6.546654] ffff8881042a8d80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc Fixes: c1d10adb4a52 ("[NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink port for nf_conntrack") Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index c9d725fc2d71..3225d4e98513 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -3300,6 +3300,7 @@ static int ctnetlink_get_expect(struct sk_buff *skb, { u_int8_t u3 = info->nfmsg->nfgen_family; struct nf_conntrack_tuple tuple; + struct nf_conn *master; struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp; struct nf_conntrack_zone zone; struct sk_buff *skb2; @@ -3354,10 +3355,19 @@ static int ctnetlink_get_expect(struct sk_buff *skb, } rcu_read_lock(); + master = exp->master; + if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&master->ct_general.use)) { + rcu_read_unlock(); + nf_ct_expect_put(exp); + kfree_skb(skb2); + return -ENOENT; + } + err = ctnetlink_exp_fill_info(skb2, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid, info->nlh->nlmsg_seq, IPCTNL_MSG_EXP_NEW, exp); rcu_read_unlock(); + nf_ct_put(master); nf_ct_expect_put(exp); if (err <= 0) { kfree_skb(skb2); -- 2.43.0