KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work

Status: fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
Subsystems: netfilter
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Reported-by: syzbot+8f747f62763bc6c32916@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: d4bc8271db21 netfilter: nf_tables: netlink notifier might race to release objects 26b5934ff419 netfilter: nf_tables: release flow rule object from commit path
First crash: 1384d, last: 1376d
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit 9dd732e0bdf538b1b76dc7c157e2b5e560ff30d3
Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Mon Jun 6 15:15:57 2022 +0000

  netfilter: nf_tables: memleak flow rule from commit path

Crash: KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
▶ ▼ Discussions (4)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH net 0/7] Netfilter/IPVS fixes for net 9 (9) 2022/11/03 03:00
[PATCH nf 1/2] netfilter: nf_tables: netlink notifier might race to release objects 2 (2) 2022/10/26 07:56
[PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_tables: avoid access to free'd chain info in nft_commit_release 1 (1) 2022/10/24 13:31
[syzbot] KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work 0 (1) 2022/10/10 17:05
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work (2) netfilter 19 syz 1 509d 509d 28/29 fixed on 2025/06/10 16:19
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work netfilter 19 C error 147 745d 752d 26/29 fixed on 2024/08/06 11:02
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2022/11/01 11:41 17m pablo@netfilter.org git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf.git syzbot OK log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nft_commit_release net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8467 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x7f4/0x820 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8513
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801bf29954 by task kworker/1:4/3619

CPU: 1 PID: 3619 Comm: kworker/1:4 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09589-g55be6084c8e0 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022
Workqueue: events nf_tables_trans_destroy_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:317 [inline]
 print_report.cold+0x2ba/0x719 mm/kasan/report.c:433
 kasan_report+0xb1/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:495
 nft_commit_release net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8467 [inline]
 nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x7f4/0x820 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:8513
 process_one_work+0x991/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
 kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 3607:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:437 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:516 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:475 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xa9/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:525
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:733 [inline]
 nf_tables_addchain.constprop.0+0x7ff/0x1830 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2257
 nf_tables_newchain+0x16d1/0x1ef0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2595
 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x171f/0x2600 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:517
 nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:638 [inline]
 nfnetlink_rcv+0x3af/0x420 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:656
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x543/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x917/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:734
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2482
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2536
 __sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2565
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Freed by task 3607:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:367 [inline]
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x166/0x1c0 mm/kasan/common.c:329
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:200 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1759 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x8b/0x1c0 mm/slub.c:1785
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
 kfree+0xe2/0x580 mm/slub.c:4567
 nf_tables_chain_destroy+0x4ec/0x640 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1889
 __nft_release_table+0x96c/0xcd0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9996
 nft_rcv_nl_event+0x3f6/0x5b0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:10047
 notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87
 blocking_notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:382 [inline]
 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x67/0x90 kernel/notifier.c:370
 netlink_release+0xcad/0x1db0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:790
 __sock_release+0xcd/0x280 net/socket.c:650
 sock_close+0x18/0x20 net/socket.c:1365
 __fput+0x27c/0xa90 fs/file_table.c:320
 task_work_run+0xdd/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:177
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:169 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x23c/0x250 kernel/entry/common.c:201
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:283 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x19/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:294
 do_syscall_64+0x42/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88801bf29900
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-128 of size 128
The buggy address is located 84 bytes inside of
 128-byte region [ffff88801bf29900, ffff88801bf29980)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00006fca40 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1bf29
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff888011842a00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x12cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 3607, tgid 3607 (syz-executor159), ts 40604180427, free_ts 40577443917
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2532 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x109b/0x2ce0 mm/page_alloc.c:4283
 __alloc_pages+0x1c7/0x510 mm/page_alloc.c:5549
 alloc_pages+0x1a6/0x270 mm/mempolicy.c:2270
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1829 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x27e/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:1974
 new_slab mm/slub.c:2034 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x84f/0xe80 mm/slub.c:3036
 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x4d/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3123
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3214 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3256 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x323/0x3e0 mm/slub.c:3287
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:733 [inline]
 inet_alloc_ifa net/ipv4/devinet.c:221 [inline]
 rtm_to_ifaddr+0x240/0xc40 net/ipv4/devinet.c:854
 inet_rtm_newaddr+0x126/0x980 net/ipv4/devinet.c:942
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43a/0xca0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6091
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x543/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x917/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:734
 __sys_sendto+0x236/0x340 net/socket.c:2117
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2129 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2125 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xdd/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2125
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1449 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare+0x5e4/0xd20 mm/page_alloc.c:1499
 free_unref_page_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:3380 [inline]
 free_unref_page+0x19/0x4d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3476
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:168 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x6a/0x170 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:187
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x180/0x200 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:294
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0xa2/0xc0 mm/kasan/common.c:447
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:224 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:727 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3248 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3256 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2c0/0x3e0 mm/slub.c:3287
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 netdevice_queue_work drivers/infiniband/core/roce_gid_mgmt.c:643 [inline]
 netdevice_event+0x1ad/0x8b0 drivers/infiniband/core/roce_gid_mgmt.c:802
 notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x110/0x2b0 net/core/dev.c:8577
 dev_change_flags+0x112/0x170 net/core/dev.c:8615
 do_setlink+0x9f1/0x3bb0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2788
 __rtnl_newlink+0xd6a/0x17e0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3547
 rtnl_newlink+0x64/0xa0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3594
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43a/0xca0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6091
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88801bf29800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc
 ffff88801bf29880: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88801bf29900: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff88801bf29980: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88801bf29a00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2022/10/17 11:24 upstream 55be6084c8e0 67cb024c .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work
2022/10/09 05:03 upstream a6afa4199d3d aea5da89 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work
2022/10/08 20:12 upstream e8bc52cb8df8 aea5da89 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work
2022/10/08 20:44 net-old aabf6155dfb8 aea5da89 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work
2022/10/08 20:47 net-next-old 0326074ff465 aea5da89 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work
2022/10/08 19:52 upstream e8bc52cb8df8 aea5da89 .config console log report info ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.