netdev - [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: sync with packet rx also after removing queue entries

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Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:22:54 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: sync with packet rx also after removing queue entries

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

We need to sync packet rx again after flushing the queue entries.
Otherwise, the following race could happen:

cpu1: nf_unregister_hook(H) called, H unliked from lists, calls
synchronize_net() to wait for packet rx completion.

Problem is that while no new nf_queue_entry structs that use H can be
allocated, another CPU might receive a verdict from userspace just before
cpu1 calls nf_queue_nf_hook_drop to remove this entry:

cpu2: receive verdict from userspace, lock queue
cpu2: unlink nf_queue_entry struct E, which references H, from queue list
cpu1: calls nf_queue_nf_hook_drop, blocks on queue spinlock
cpu2: unlock queue
cpu1: nf_queue_nf_hook_drop drops affected queue entries
cpu2: call nf_reinject for E
cpu1: kfree(H)
cpu2: potential use-after-free for H

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Fixes: 085db2c04557 ("netfilter: Per network namespace netfilter hooks.")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/core.c b/net/netfilter/core.c
index 8e47f81..21a0856 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/core.c
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ void nf_unregister_net_hook(struct net *net, const struct nf_hook_ops *reg)
 #endif
 	synchronize_net();
 	nf_queue_nf_hook_drop(net, &entry->ops);
+	/* other cpu might still process nfqueue verdict that used reg */
+	synchronize_net();
 	kfree(entry);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nf_unregister_net_hook);
-- 
2.1.4

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