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rhashtable: clear stale iter->p on table restart
authorCen Zhang (Microsoft) <blbllhy@gmail.com>
Tue, 7 Jul 2026 16:41:15 +0000 (12:41 -0400)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:04:45 +0000 (09:04 +1000)
commit8173f7e2ce67e6ca1d4763f3da14e5b01ce77456
tree9e3c9f325208dea7d35bf9f6e815526c62876c86
parentdc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
rhashtable: clear stale iter->p on table restart

rhashtable_walk_start_check() has two restart paths when resuming a walk.
When iter->walker.tbl is valid, it re-validates iter->p against the table
and sets iter->p = NULL if the object is gone.  When iter->walker.tbl is
NULL (table was freed during resize), it resets slot and skip but forgets
to clear iter->p.

rhashtable_walk_next() then dereferences the stale iter->p, reading
freed memory.  This is a use-after-free.

Any caller that does multi-fragment rhashtable walks across
walk_stop/walk_start boundaries is affected.  Concrete cases include
netlink_diag (__netlink_diag_dump in net/netlink/diag.c) and TIPC
(tipc_nl_sk_walk in net/tipc/socket.c).

Crash stack (netlink_diag):
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rhashtable_walk_next+0x365/0x3c0
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801a9d2438 (freed kmalloc-2k, offset 1080)
  Call Trace:
   rhashtable_walk_next+0x365/0x3c0 (lib/rhashtable.c:1016)
   __netlink_diag_dump+0x160/0x760 (net/netlink/diag.c:122)
   netlink_diag_dump+0xc2/0x240
   netlink_dump+0x5bc/0x1270
   netlink_recvmsg+0x7a3/0x980
   sock_recvmsg+0x1bc/0x200
   __sys_recvfrom+0x1d4/0x2c0

Fixes: 5d240a8936f6 ("rhashtable: improve rhashtable_walk stability when stop/start used.")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/CAB8m9Wh559e+=n8z51gB8DrbEyCc2mc0MgGjrRR6_VXBmU=2AQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <blbllhy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
lib/rhashtable.c