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SubjectRe: [syzbot] KASAN: use-after-free Write in nft_ct_tmpl_put_pcpu
Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think, there a missing lock in this function:
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> ct = per_cpu(nft_ct_pcpu_template, cpu);
> if (!ct)
> break;
> nf_ct_put(ct);
> per_cpu(nft_ct_pcpu_template, cpu) = NULL;
>
> }
>
> Syzbot hit a UAF in nft_ct_tmpl_put_pcpu() (*), but freed template should be
> NULL.
>
> So I suspect following scenario:
>
>
> CPU0: CPU1:
> = per_cpu()
> = per_cpu()
>
> nf_ct_put
> per_cpu = NULL
> nf_ct_put()
> * UAF *

Yes and no. The above is fine since pcpu will return different pointers
for cpu 0 and 1.

The race is between two different net namespaces that race when
changing nft_ct_pcpu_template_refcnt.
This happens since

commit f102d66b335a417d4848da9441f585695a838934
netfilter: nf_tables: use dedicated mutex to guard transactions

Before this, all transactions were serialized by a global mutex,
now we only serialize transactions in the same netns.

Its probably best to add
DEFINE_MUTEX(nft_ct_pcpu_mutex) and then acquire that when we need to
inc/dec the nft_ct_pcpu_template_refcnt so we can't have two distinct
cpus hitting a zero refcount.

Would you send a patch for this?

Thanks.

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