netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak during stateful obj update

stateful objects can be updated from the control plane.
The transaction logic allocates a temporary object for this purpose.

The ->init function was called for this object, so plain kfree() leaks
resources. We must call ->destroy function of the object.

nft_obj_destroy does this, but it also decrements the module refcount,
but the update path doesn't increment it.

To avoid special-casing the update object release, do module_get for
the update case too and release it via nft_obj_destroy().

Fixes: d62d0ba97b58 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce stateful object update operation")
Cc: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 3081c43..9cd1d7a 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -6551,12 +6551,15 @@ static int nf_tables_updobj(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 {
        struct nft_object *newobj;
        struct nft_trans *trans;
-       int err;
+       int err = -ENOMEM;
+
+       if (!try_module_get(type->owner))
+               return -ENOENT;
 
        trans = nft_trans_alloc(ctx, NFT_MSG_NEWOBJ,
                                sizeof(struct nft_trans_obj));
        if (!trans)
-               return -ENOMEM;
+               goto err_trans;
 
        newobj = nft_obj_init(ctx, type, attr);
        if (IS_ERR(newobj)) {
@@ -6573,6 +6576,8 @@ static int nf_tables_updobj(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 
 err_free_trans:
        kfree(trans);
+err_trans:
+       module_put(type->owner);
        return err;
 }
 
@@ -8185,7 +8190,7 @@ static void nft_obj_commit_update(struct nft_trans *trans)
        if (obj->ops->update)
                obj->ops->update(obj, newobj);
 
-       kfree(newobj);
+       nft_obj_destroy(&trans->ctx, newobj);
 }
 
 static void nft_commit_release(struct nft_trans *trans)
@@ -8976,7 +8981,7 @@ static int __nf_tables_abort(struct net *net, enum nfnl_abort_action action)
                        break;
                case NFT_MSG_NEWOBJ:
                        if (nft_trans_obj_update(trans)) {
-                               kfree(nft_trans_obj_newobj(trans));
+                               nft_obj_destroy(&trans->ctx, nft_trans_obj_newobj(trans));
                                nft_trans_destroy(trans);
                        } else {
                                trans->ctx.table->use--;