netdev - [PATCH net 2/3] netfilter: nft_connlimit: fix possible data race on connection count

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Message-ID: <20251029135617.18274-3-fw@strlen.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:56:16 +0100
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 2/3] netfilter: nft_connlimit: fix possible data race on connection count

From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@...e.de>

nft_connlimit_eval() reads priv->list->count to check if the connection
limit has been exceeded. This value is being read without a lock and can
be modified by a different process. Use READ_ONCE() for correctness.

Fixes: df4a90250976 ("netfilter: nf_conncount: merge lookup and add functions")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c b/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
index 92b984fa8175..fc35a11cdca2 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static inline void nft_connlimit_do_eval(struct nft_connlimit *priv,
 		return;
 	}
 
-	count = priv->list->count;
+	count = READ_ONCE(priv->list->count);
 
 	if ((count > priv->limit) ^ priv->invert) {
 		regs->verdict.code = NFT_BREAK;
-- 
2.51.0