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Draft: CVE-2024-35900: netfilter: nf_tables: reject new basechain after table flag update

CKI Backport Bot requested to merge redhat/red-hat-ci-tools/kernel/bot-branches/centos-stream-9:backport-RHEL-37195-centos-stream-9-main into main

JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-37195
CVE: CVE-2024-35900

netfilter: nf_tables: reject new basechain after table flag update

When dormant flag is toggled, hooks are disabled in the commit phase by
iterating over current chains in table (existing and new).

The following configuration allows for an inconsistent state:

  add table x
  add chain x y { type filter hook input priority 0; }
  add table x { flags dormant; }
  add chain x w { type filter hook input priority 1; }

which triggers the following warning when trying to unregister chain w
which is already unregistered.

[  127.322252] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1211 at net/netfilter/core.c:50                                                                     1 __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[...]
[  127.322519] Call Trace:
[  127.322521]  <TASK>
[  127.322524]  ? __warn+0x9f/0x1a0
[  127.322531]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[  127.322537]  ? report_bug+0x1b1/0x1e0
[  127.322545]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
[  127.322552]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x40
[  127.322556]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[  127.322563]  ? kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
[  127.322570]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x6a/0x260
[  127.322577]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[  127.322583]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x6a/0x260
[  127.322590]  ? __nf_tables_unregister_hook+0x8a/0xe0 [nf_tables]
[  127.322655]  nft_table_disable+0x75/0xf0 [nf_tables]
[  127.322717]  nf_tables_commit+0x2571/0x2620 [nf_tables]

Fixes: 179d9ba5559a ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix table flag updates")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 994209ddf4f430946f6247616b2e33d179243769)

Signed-off-by: cki-backport-bot cki-ci-bot+cki-gitlab-backport-bot@redhat.com

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