[SRU][F][PATCH 1/2] netfilter: nf_tables: nft_set_rbtree: fix spurious insertion failure

Bethany Jamison bethany.jamison at canonical.com
Fri Mar 15 20:34:53 UTC 2024


From: Florian Westphal <fw at strlen.de>

nft_rbtree_gc_elem() walks back and removes the end interval element that
comes before the expired element.

There is a small chance that we've cached this element as 'rbe_ge'.
If this happens, we hold and test a pointer that has been queued for
freeing.

It also causes spurious insertion failures:

$ cat test-testcases-sets-0044interval_overlap_0.1/testout.log
Error: Could not process rule: File exists
add element t s {  0 -  2 }
                   ^^^^^^
Failed to insert  0 -  2 given:
table ip t {
        set s {
                type inet_service
                flags interval,timeout
                timeout 2s
                gc-interval 2s
        }
}

The set (rbtree) is empty. The 'failure' doesn't happen on next attempt.

Reason is that when we try to insert, the tree may hold an expired
element that collides with the range we're adding.
While we do evict/erase this element, we can trip over this check:

if (rbe_ge && nft_rbtree_interval_end(rbe_ge) && nft_rbtree_interval_end(new))
      return -ENOTEMPTY;

rbe_ge was erased by the synchronous gc, we should not have done this
check.  Next attempt won't find it, so retry results in successful
insertion.

Restart in-kernel to avoid such spurious errors.

Such restart are rare, unless userspace intentionally adds very large
numbers of elements with very short timeouts while setting a huge
gc interval.

Even in this case, this cannot loop forever, on each retry an existing
element has been removed.

As the caller is holding the transaction mutex, its impossible
for a second entity to add more expiring elements to the tree.

After this it also becomes feasible to remove the async gc worker
and perform all garbage collection from the commit path.

Fixes: c9e6978e2725 ("netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Switch to node list walk for overlap detection")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw at strlen.de>
(cherry picked from commit 087388278e0f301f4c61ddffb1911d3a180f84b8)
CVE-2024-26581
Signed-off-by: Bethany Jamison <bethany.jamison at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c b/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c
index d9c436fa91b51..eed0e4cc01ef1 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c
@@ -235,10 +235,9 @@ static void nft_rbtree_gc_remove(struct net *net, struct nft_set *set,
 	rb_erase(&rbe->node, &priv->root);
 }
 
-static int nft_rbtree_gc_elem(const struct nft_set *__set,
-			      struct nft_rbtree *priv,
-			      struct nft_rbtree_elem *rbe,
-			      u8 genmask)
+static const struct nft_rbtree_elem *
+nft_rbtree_gc_elem(const struct nft_set *__set, struct nft_rbtree *priv,
+		   struct nft_rbtree_elem *rbe, u8 genmask)
 {
 	struct nft_set *set = (struct nft_set *)__set;
 	struct rb_node *prev = rb_prev(&rbe->node);
@@ -248,7 +247,7 @@ static int nft_rbtree_gc_elem(const struct nft_set *__set,
 
 	gc = nft_trans_gc_alloc(set, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!gc)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	/* search for end interval coming before this element.
 	 * end intervals don't carry a timeout extension, they
@@ -263,6 +262,7 @@ static int nft_rbtree_gc_elem(const struct nft_set *__set,
 		prev = rb_prev(prev);
 	}
 
+	rbe_prev = NULL;
 	if (prev) {
 		rbe_prev = rb_entry(prev, struct nft_rbtree_elem, node);
 		nft_rbtree_gc_remove(net, set, priv, rbe_prev);
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int nft_rbtree_gc_elem(const struct nft_set *__set,
 		 */
 		gc = nft_trans_gc_queue_sync(gc, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!gc))
-			return -ENOMEM;
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 		nft_trans_gc_elem_add(gc, rbe_prev);
 	}
@@ -282,13 +282,13 @@ static int nft_rbtree_gc_elem(const struct nft_set *__set,
 	nft_rbtree_gc_remove(net, set, priv, rbe);
 	gc = nft_trans_gc_queue_sync(gc, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!gc))
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	nft_trans_gc_elem_add(gc, rbe);
 
 	nft_trans_gc_queue_sync_done(gc);
 
-	return 0;
+	return rbe_prev;
 }
 
 static bool nft_rbtree_update_first(const struct nft_set *set,
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int __nft_rbtree_insert(const struct net *net, const struct nft_set *set,
 	struct nft_rbtree *priv = nft_set_priv(set);
 	u8 cur_genmask = nft_genmask_cur(net);
 	u8 genmask = nft_genmask_next(net);
-	int d, err;
+	int d;
 
 	/* Descend the tree to search for an existing element greater than the
 	 * key value to insert that is greater than the new element. This is the
@@ -365,9 +365,14 @@ static int __nft_rbtree_insert(const struct net *net, const struct nft_set *set,
 		 */
 		if (nft_set_elem_expired(&rbe->ext) &&
 		    nft_set_elem_active(&rbe->ext, cur_genmask)) {
-			err = nft_rbtree_gc_elem(set, priv, rbe, genmask);
-			if (err < 0)
-				return err;
+			const struct nft_rbtree_elem *removed_end;
+
+			removed_end = nft_rbtree_gc_elem(set, priv, rbe, genmask);
+			if (IS_ERR(removed_end))
+				return PTR_ERR(removed_end);
+
+			if (removed_end == rbe_le || removed_end == rbe_ge)
+				return -EAGAIN;
 
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -488,11 +493,18 @@ static int nft_rbtree_insert(const struct net *net, const struct nft_set *set,
 	struct nft_rbtree_elem *rbe = elem->priv;
 	int err;
 
-	write_lock_bh(&priv->lock);
-	write_seqcount_begin(&priv->count);
-	err = __nft_rbtree_insert(net, set, rbe, ext);
-	write_seqcount_end(&priv->count);
-	write_unlock_bh(&priv->lock);
+	do {
+		if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
+			return -EINTR;
+
+		cond_resched();
+
+		write_lock_bh(&priv->lock);
+		write_seqcount_begin(&priv->count);
+		err = __nft_rbtree_insert(net, set, rbe, ext);
+		write_seqcount_end(&priv->count);
+		write_unlock_bh(&priv->lock);
+	} while (err == -EAGAIN);
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.34.1




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