linux-kernel - Re: Kernel leaks memory in ip6_dst_cache when suppress_prefix is present in ipv6 routing rules and a `fib` rule is present in ipv6 nftables rules

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Date:   Sat, 30 Oct 2021 07:25:15 +0700
From:   msizanoen <msizanoen@...labs.xyz>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, dsahern@...nel.org, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel leaks memory in ip6_dst_cache when suppress_prefix is
 present in ipv6 routing rules and a `fib` rule is present in ipv6 nftables
 rules

 > exact command? I have not played with nftables.

sudo nft create table inet test
sudo nft create chain inet test test_chain '{ type filter hook 
prerouting priority filter + 10; policy accept; }'
sudo nft add rule inet test test_chain meta nfproto ipv6 fib saddr . 
mark . iif oif missing drop

 > Do you have a stack
 > trace of where the dst reference is getting taken?

         ip6_dst_alloc+5
         ip6_create_rt_rcu+107
         ip6_pol_route_lookup+741
         fib6_rule_action+707
         fib_rules_lookup+342
         fib6_rule_lookup+150
         nft_fib6_eval+354
         nft_do_chain+339
         nft_do_chain_inet+123
         nf_hook_slow+63
         nf_hook_slow_list+129
         ip6_sublist_rcv+606
         ipv6_list_rcv+296
         __netif_receive_skb_list_core+489
         netif_receive_skb_list_internal+433
         napi_complete_done+111
         virtnet_poll+771
         __napi_poll+42
         net_rx_action+547
         __softirqentry_text_start+208
         __irq_exit_rcu+199
         common_interrupt+131
         asm_common_interrupt+30
         native_safe_halt+11
         default_idle+10
         default_idle_call+53
         do_idle+487
         cpu_startup_entry+25
         secondary_startup_64_no_verify+194

Collected using the following bpftrace script:

kretfunc:ip6_dst_alloc { @[(uint64)retval] = kstack(); }
kfunc:ip6_dst_destroy { delete(@[(uint64)args->dst]); }

On 10/30/21 06:53, David Ahern wrote:
> On 10/26/21 8:24 AM, msizanoen wrote:
>> The kernel leaks memory when a `fib` rule is present in ipv6 nftables
>> firewall rules and a suppress_prefix rule
>> is present in the IPv6 routing rules (used by certain tools such as
>> wg-quick). In such scenarios, every incoming
>> packet will leak an allocation in ip6_dst_cache slab cache.
>>
>> After some hours of `bpftrace`-ing and source code reading, I tracked
>> down the issue to this commit:
>>      https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ca7a03c4175366a92cee0ccc4fec0038c3266e26
>>
>>
>> The problem with that patch is that the generic args->flags always have
>> FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF set[1][2] but the
>> ip6-specific flag RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF might not be specified, leading
>> to fib6_rule_suppress not
>> decreasing the refcount when needed. This can be fixed by exposing the
>> protocol-specific flags to the
>> protocol specific `suppress` function, and check the protocol-specific
>> `flags` argument for
>> RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF instead of the generic FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF when
>> decreasing the refcount.
>>
>> How to reproduce:
>> - Add the following nftables rule to a prerouting chain: `meta nfproto
>> ipv6 fib saddr . mark . iif oif missing drop`
> exact command? I have not played with nftables. Do you have a stack
> trace of where the dst reference is getting taken?
>
>
>> - Run `sudo ip -6 rule add table main suppress_prefixlength 0`
>> - Watch `sudo slabtop -o | grep ip6_dst_cache` memory usage increase
>> with every incoming ipv6 packet
>>
>> Example
>> patch:https://gist.github.com/msizanoen1/36a2853467a9bd34fadc5bb3783fde0f
>>
>> [1]:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ca7a03c4175366a92cee0ccc4fec0038c3266e26/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c#L71
>>
>> [2]:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ca7a03c4175366a92cee0ccc4fec0038c3266e26/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c#L99
>>
>>
>>