linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47452: netfilter: nf_tables: skip netdev events generated on netns removal

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Message-ID: <2024052243-CVE-2021-47452-40cb@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 08:19:55 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47452: netfilter: nf_tables: skip netdev events generated on netns removal

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: skip netdev events generated on netns removal

syzbot reported following (harmless) WARN:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2648 at net/netfilter/core.c:468
  nft_netdev_unregister_hooks net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:230 [inline]
  nf_tables_unregister_hook include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:1090 [inline]
  __nft_release_basechain+0x138/0x640 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:9524
  nft_netdev_event net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:351 [inline]
  nf_tables_netdev_event+0x521/0x8a0 net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:382

reproducer:
unshare -n bash -c 'ip link add br0 type bridge; nft add table netdev t ; \
 nft add chain netdev t ingress \{ type filter hook ingress device "br0" \
 priority 0\; policy drop\; \}'

Problem is that when netns device exit hooks create the UNREGISTER
event, the .pre_exit hook for nf_tables core has already removed the
base hook.  Notifier attempts to do this again.

The need to do base hook unregister unconditionally was needed in the past,
because notifier was last stage where reg->dev dereference was safe.

Now that nf_tables does the hook removal in .pre_exit, this isn't
needed anymore.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47452 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.11 with commit 767d1216bff8 and fixed in 5.14.15 with commit 90c7c58aa2bd
	Issue introduced in 5.11 with commit 767d1216bff8 and fixed in 5.15 with commit 68a3765c659f
	Issue introduced in 5.4.99 with commit b110391d1e80
	Issue introduced in 5.10.17 with commit 0a0e5d47670b

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2021-47452
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90c7c58aa2bd02c65a4c63b7dfe0b16eab12cf9f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68a3765c659f809dcaac20030853a054646eb739