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Message-ID: <20250924140654.10210-2-fw@strlen.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:06:49 +0200
From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	pablo@...filter.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/6] ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup

From: Slavin Liu <slavin452@...il.com>

On the netns cleanup path, __ip_vs_ftp_exit() may unregister ip_vs_ftp
before connections with valid cp->app pointers are flushed, leading to a
use-after-free.

Fix this by introducing a global `exiting_module` flag, set to true in
ip_vs_ftp_exit() before unregistering the pernet subsystem. In
__ip_vs_ftp_exit(), skip ip_vs_ftp unregister if called during netns
cleanup (when exiting_module is false) and defer it to
__ip_vs_cleanup_batch(), which unregisters all apps after all connections
are flushed. If called during module exit, unregister ip_vs_ftp
immediately.

Fixes: 61b1ab4583e2 ("IPVS: netns, add basic init per netns.")
Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Signed-off-by: Slavin Liu <slavin452@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c
index d8a284999544..206c6700e200 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ enum {
 	IP_VS_FTP_EPSV,
 };
 
+static bool exiting_module;
 /*
  * List of ports (up to IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) to be handled by helper
  * First port is set to the default port.
@@ -605,7 +606,7 @@ static void __ip_vs_ftp_exit(struct net *net)
 {
 	struct netns_ipvs *ipvs = net_ipvs(net);
 
-	if (!ipvs)
+	if (!ipvs || !exiting_module)
 		return;
 
 	unregister_ip_vs_app(ipvs, &ip_vs_ftp);
@@ -627,6 +628,7 @@ static int __init ip_vs_ftp_init(void)
  */
 static void __exit ip_vs_ftp_exit(void)
 {
+	exiting_module = true;
 	unregister_pernet_subsys(&ip_vs_ftp_ops);
 	/* rcu_barrier() is called by netns */
 }
-- 
2.49.1