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[v6,1/8] netfilter: ipset: fix a potential dump-destroy race

Message ID 20260508205903.10238-2-kadlec@netfilter.org
State Changes Requested, archived
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Series netfilter: ipset fixes | expand

Commit Message

Jozsef Kadlecsik May 8, 2026, 8:58 p.m. UTC 
When dumping sets in order to create the proper order for restore,
the list type of sets dumped last. Therefore internally we run the
dumping loop twice: first with all non-list type of sets and skipping
the list type ones and then secondly for the list type of sets.

Sashiko noticed that there's a potential race between dump and destroy
if in the first loop the last set was a list type of set: its pointer
remains unreferenced and a concurrent destroy can free it.

Fix the issue by resetting the variable holding the pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
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 net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
index c5a26236a0bb..0874029cb0f2 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
@@ -1613,6 +1613,7 @@  ip_set_dump_do(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 		    ((dump_type == DUMP_ALL) ==
 		     !!(set->type->features & IPSET_DUMP_LAST))) {
 			write_unlock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock);
+			set = NULL;
 			continue;
 		}
 		pr_debug("List set: %s\n", set->name);