netdev - [PATCH nf 5/5] netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak during stateful obj update

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Message-Id: <20220221161757.250801-6-pablo@netfilter.org>
Date:   Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:17:57 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH nf 5/5] netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak during stateful obj update

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

stateful objects can be updated from the control plane.
The transaction logic allocates a temporary object for this purpose.

The ->init function was called for this object, so plain kfree() leaks
resources. We must call ->destroy function of the object.

nft_obj_destroy does this, but it also decrements the module refcount,
but the update path doesn't increment it.

To avoid special-casing the update object release, do module_get for
the update case too and release it via nft_obj_destroy().

Fixes: d62d0ba97b58 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce stateful object update operation")
Cc: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@...eup.net>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 3081c4399f10..49060f281342 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -6553,10 +6553,13 @@ static int nf_tables_updobj(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 	struct nft_trans *trans;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!try_module_get(type->owner))
+		return -ENOENT;
+
 	trans = nft_trans_alloc(ctx, NFT_MSG_NEWOBJ,
 				sizeof(struct nft_trans_obj));
 	if (!trans)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_trans;
 
 	newobj = nft_obj_init(ctx, type, attr);
 	if (IS_ERR(newobj)) {
@@ -6573,6 +6576,8 @@ static int nf_tables_updobj(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 
 err_free_trans:
 	kfree(trans);
+err_trans:
+	module_put(type->owner);
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -8185,7 +8190,7 @@ static void nft_obj_commit_update(struct nft_trans *trans)
 	if (obj->ops->update)
 		obj->ops->update(obj, newobj);
 
-	kfree(newobj);
+	nft_obj_destroy(&trans->ctx, newobj);
 }
 
 static void nft_commit_release(struct nft_trans *trans)
@@ -8976,7 +8981,7 @@ static int __nf_tables_abort(struct net *net, enum nfnl_abort_action action)
 			break;
 		case NFT_MSG_NEWOBJ:
 			if (nft_trans_obj_update(trans)) {
-				kfree(nft_trans_obj_newobj(trans));
+				nft_obj_destroy(&trans->ctx, nft_trans_obj_newobj(trans));
 				nft_trans_destroy(trans);
 			} else {
 				trans->ctx.table->use--;
-- 
2.30.2