CVE-2024-56655 (GCVE-0-2024-56655)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-27 15:06
Modified
2025-06-04 12:57
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: do not defer rule destruction via call_rcu nf_tables_chain_destroy can sleep, it can't be used from call_rcu callbacks. Moreover, nf_tables_rule_release() is only safe for error unwinding, while transaction mutex is held and the to-be-desroyed rule was not exposed to either dataplane or dumps, as it deactives+frees without the required synchronize_rcu() in-between. nft_rule_expr_deactivate() callbacks will change ->use counters of other chains/sets, see e.g. nft_lookup .deactivate callback, these must be serialized via transaction mutex. Also add a few lockdep asserts to make this more explicit. Calling synchronize_rcu() isn't ideal, but fixing this without is hard and way more intrusive. As-is, we can get: WARNING: .. net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5515 nft_set_destroy+0x.. Workqueue: events nf_tables_trans_destroy_work RIP: 0010:nft_set_destroy+0x3fe/0x5c0 Call Trace: <TASK> nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x6b7/0xad0 process_one_work+0x64a/0xce0 worker_thread+0x613/0x10d0 In case the synchronize_rcu becomes an issue, we can explore alternatives. One way would be to allocate nft_trans_rule objects + one nft_trans_chain object, deactivate the rules + the chain and then defer the freeing to the nft destroy workqueue. We'd still need to keep the synchronize_rcu path as a fallback to handle -ENOMEM corner cases though.
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Linux Linux Version: 9eee6097ffb26cdd2adb988c0d378fa0d650c737
Version: 558f503f707f481bbf40efa74a938b8021df841d
Version: a394c160d57f4b083bd904a22802f6fb7f5b3cea
Version: e6c32a64d61184c2bdf89442b3d31ef530afba34
Version: bfd05c68e4c6320304e9f371ffa356b6e4b9cc53
Version: c03d278fdf35e73dd0ec543b9b556876b9d9a8dc
Version: c03d278fdf35e73dd0ec543b9b556876b9d9a8dc
Version: cb401e5799e0acacb405f2128097e9c4ccf82f8a
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