mtype_resize() copies comment pointers with memcpy(), not the comment objects themselves. During the window after an entry has been copied but before the table swap and backlog replay, the old table is still published for packet-side updates while the replacement-table entry already holds the same ip_set_comment_rcu pointer. If xt_SET --add-set ... --exist hits that old entry in this window, mtype_add() calls ip_set_init_comment() even though packet-side adds carry no comment payload. That call frees the shared comment through the old entry, so the replacement-table entry now holds a stale pointer. When the queued add is replayed on the new table, mtype_add() calls ip_set_init_comment() again and strlen() dereferences the stale pointer. Fix this in mtype_add() by skipping ip_set_init_comment() when ext->target marks a packet-side add. Userspace adds still update comments, while packet-side adds can no longer free comment storage shared with a resize copy. Fixes: f66ee0410b1c ("netfilter: ipset: Fix "INFO: rcu detected stall in hash_xxx" reports") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Lee Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5 --- A reproducer triggers a KASAN slab-use-after-free in strlen() from ip_set_init_comment() during hash_ip4_resize(). Trail of Bits has a privilege escalation PoC for this bug on a custom kernel, which can be shared further if needed. net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h index 8231317b0f1f..b2d77973272d 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h @@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ mtype_add(struct ip_set *set, void *value, const struct ip_set_ext *ext, #endif if (SET_WITH_COUNTER(set)) ip_set_init_counter(ext_counter(data, set), ext); - if (SET_WITH_COMMENT(set)) + if (SET_WITH_COMMENT(set) && !ext->target) ip_set_init_comment(set, ext_comment(data, set), ext); if (SET_WITH_SKBINFO(set)) ip_set_init_skbinfo(ext_skbinfo(data, set), ext); -- 2.43.0