CVE-2021-47408

netfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups

Medium · published May 21, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups

Syzbot was able to trigger the following warning [1]

No repro found by syzbot yet but I was able to trigger similar issue

by having 2 scripts running in parallel, changing conntrack hash sizes,

and:

for j in `seq 1 1000` ; do unshare -n /bin/true >/dev/null ; done

It would take more than 5 minutes for net_namespace structures

to be cleaned up.

This is because nf_ct_iterate_cleanup() has to restart everytime

a resize happened.

By adding a mutex, we can serialize hash resizes and cleanups

and also make get_next_corpse() faster by skipping over empty

buckets.

Even without resizes in the picture, this patch considerably

speeds up network namespace dismantles.

[1]

INFO: task syz-executor.0:8312 can't die for more than 144 seconds.

task:syz-executor.0 state:R running task stack:25672 pid: 8312 ppid: 6573 flags:0x00004006

Call Trace:

context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4955 [inline]

__schedule+0x940/0x26f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6236

preempt_schedule_common+0x45/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6408

preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:35

__local_bh_enable_ip+0x109/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:390

local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:32 [inline]

get_next_corpse net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2252 [inline]

nf_ct_iterate_cleanup+0x15a/0x450 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2275

nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list+0x14c/0x4f0 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2469

ops_exit_list+0x10d/0x160 net/core/net_namespace.c:171

setup_net+0x639/0xa30 net/core/net_namespace.c:349

copy_net_ns+0x319/0x760 net/core/net_namespace.c:470

create_new_namespaces+0x3f6/0xb20 kernel/nsproxy.c:110

unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xc1/0x1f0 kernel/nsproxy.c:226

ksys_unshare+0x445/0x920 kernel/fork.c:3128

__do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3202 [inline]

__se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3200 [inline]

__x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3200

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

RIP: 0033:0x7f63da68e739

RSP: 002b:00007f63d7c05188 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000110

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f63da792f80 RCX: 00007f63da68e739

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000040000000

RBP: 00007f63da6e8cc4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f63da792f80

R13: 00007fff50b75d3f R14: 00007f63d7c05300 R15: 0000000000022000

Showing all locks held in the system:

1 lock held by khungtaskd/27:

#0: ffffffff8b980020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x53/0x260 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6446

2 locks held by kworker/u4:2/153:

#0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: arch_atomic64_set arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:34 [inline]

#0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: arch_atomic_long_set include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41 [inline]

#0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: atomic_long_set include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1198 [inline]

#0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: set_work_data kernel/workqueue.c:634 [inline]

#0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: set_work_pool_and_clear_pending kernel/workqueue.c:661 [inline]

#0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x896/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2268

#1: ffffc9000140fdb0 ((kfence_timer).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x8ca/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2272

1 lock held by systemd-udevd/2970:

1 lock held by in:imklog/6258:

#0: ffff88807f970ff0 (&f->f_pos_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __fdget_pos+0xe9/0x100 fs/file.c:990

3 locks held by kworker/1:6/8158:

1 lock held by syz-executor.0/8312:

2 locks held by kworker/u4:13/9320:

1 lock held by

---truncated---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00253 · 15.8th percentile
Published
2024-05-21T15:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
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