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[PATCH] netfilter: ipvs: fix ct refcount leak when template is invalid

To: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>, "David S . Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: ipvs: fix ct refcount leak when template is invalid
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, coreteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 07:21:00 +0000
ip_vs_sched_persist() calls ip_vs_ct_in_get() to look up an existing
connection template, which returns ct with a reference held. If the
template exists but fails the ip_vs_check_template() validation, the
function can leak the reference in two ways:

1. If no destination is found (scheduler returns NULL), the function
   returns NULL at the !dest check without calling ip_vs_conn_put(ct).

2. If a destination is found and a new template is created via
   ip_vs_conn_new(), the old ct pointer is overwritten without its
   reference being released.

Fix this by adding ip_vs_conn_put(ct) before the early return when no
destination is found, and before overwriting ct with the new template.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 5b57a98c1f0d ("IPVS: compact ip_vs_sched_persist()")
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index d40b404c1bf6..bdc3f296876a 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -536,6 +536,7 @@ ip_vs_sched_persist(struct ip_vs_service *svc,
                        IP_VS_DBG(1, "p-schedule: no dest found.\n");
                        kfree(param.pe_data);
                        *ignored = 0;
+                       ip_vs_conn_put(ct);
                        return NULL;
                }
 
@@ -551,6 +552,7 @@ ip_vs_sched_persist(struct ip_vs_service *svc,
                if (ct == NULL) {
                        kfree(param.pe_data);
                        *ignored = -1;
+                       ip_vs_conn_put(ct);
                        return NULL;
                }
 
-- 
2.34.1



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