[SRU][J][PATCH 1/1] netfilter: IDLETIMER: Fix for possible ABBA deadlock

[Cengiz Can]

From: Phil Sutter <phil at nwl.cc>

Deletion of the last rule referencing a given idletimer may happen at
the same time as a read of its file in sysfs:

| ======================================================
| WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
| 6.12.0-rc7-01692-g5e9a28f41134-dirty #594 Not tainted
| ------------------------------------------------------
| iptables/3303 is trying to acquire lock:
| ffff8881057e04b8 (kn->active#48){++++}-{0:0}, at: __kernfs_remove+0x20
|
| but task is already holding lock:
| ffffffffa0249068 (list_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: idletimer_tg_destroy_v]
|
| which lock already depends on the new lock.

A simple reproducer is:

| #!/bin/bash
|
| while true; do
|         iptables -A INPUT -i foo -j IDLETIMER --timeout 10 --label "testme"
|         iptables -D INPUT -i foo -j IDLETIMER --timeout 10 --label "testme"
| done &
| while true; do
|         cat /sys/class/xt_idletimer/timers/testme >/dev/null
| done

Avoid this by freeing list_mutex right after deleting the element from
the list, then continuing with the teardown.

Fixes: 0902b469bd25 ("netfilter: xtables: idletimer target implementation")
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil at nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
(backported from commit f36b01994d68ffc253c8296e2228dfe6e6431c03)
[bot_kybele: Kept this tree's del_timer_sync() instead of upstream's
 timer_shutdown_sync() in both destroy functions, as timer_shutdown_sync does
 not exist in this older tree.]
CVE-2024-54683
Assisted-by: kybele:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c b/net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c
index ba831c0e6d11..4e0549565f98 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c
@@ -415,21 +415,23 @@ static void idletimer_tg_destroy(const struct xt_tgdtor_param *par)
 
 	mutex_lock(&list_mutex);
 
-	if (--info->timer->refcnt == 0) {
-		pr_debug("deleting timer %s\n", info->label);
-
-		list_del(&info->timer->entry);
-		del_timer_sync(&info->timer->timer);
-		cancel_work_sync(&info->timer->work);
-		sysfs_remove_file(idletimer_tg_kobj, &info->timer->attr.attr);
-		kfree(info->timer->attr.attr.name);
-		kfree(info->timer);
-	} else {
+	if (--info->timer->refcnt > 0) {
 		pr_debug("decreased refcnt of timer %s to %u\n",
 			 info->label, info->timer->refcnt);
+		mutex_unlock(&list_mutex);
+		return;
 	}
 
+	pr_debug("deleting timer %s\n", info->label);
+
+	list_del(&info->timer->entry);
 	mutex_unlock(&list_mutex);
+
+	del_timer_sync(&info->timer->timer);
+	cancel_work_sync(&info->timer->work);
+	sysfs_remove_file(idletimer_tg_kobj, &info->timer->attr.attr);
+	kfree(info->timer->attr.attr.name);
+	kfree(info->timer);
 }
 
 static void idletimer_tg_destroy_v1(const struct xt_tgdtor_param *par)
@@ -440,25 +442,27 @@ static void idletimer_tg_destroy_v1(const struct xt_tgdtor_param *par)
 
 	mutex_lock(&list_mutex);
 
-	if (--info->timer->refcnt == 0) {
-		pr_debug("deleting timer %s\n", info->label);
-
-		list_del(&info->timer->entry);
-		if (info->timer->timer_type & XT_IDLETIMER_ALARM) {
-			alarm_cancel(&info->timer->alarm);
-		} else {
-			del_timer_sync(&info->timer->timer);
-		}
-		cancel_work_sync(&info->timer->work);
-		sysfs_remove_file(idletimer_tg_kobj, &info->timer->attr.attr);
-		kfree(info->timer->attr.attr.name);
-		kfree(info->timer);
-	} else {
+	if (--info->timer->refcnt > 0) {
 		pr_debug("decreased refcnt of timer %s to %u\n",
 			 info->label, info->timer->refcnt);
+		mutex_unlock(&list_mutex);
+		return;
 	}
 
+	pr_debug("deleting timer %s\n", info->label);
+
+	list_del(&info->timer->entry);
 	mutex_unlock(&list_mutex);
+
+	if (info->timer->timer_type & XT_IDLETIMER_ALARM) {
+		alarm_cancel(&info->timer->alarm);
+	} else {
+		del_timer_sync(&info->timer->timer);
+	}
+	cancel_work_sync(&info->timer->work);
+	sysfs_remove_file(idletimer_tg_kobj, &info->timer->attr.attr);
+	kfree(info->timer->attr.attr.name);
+	kfree(info->timer);
 }
 
 
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