Hyunjung Ko b47bb899e0 net/sched: act_ct: fix sk_buff leak when the header checks reject a packet
commit 8a7ed56167 upstream.

tcf_ct_handle_fragments() runs its header sanity checks before handing
anything to the defragmentation engine:

	if (family == NFPROTO_IPV4)
		err = tcf_ct_ipv4_is_fragment(skb, &frag);
	else
		err = tcf_ct_ipv6_is_fragment(skb, &frag);
	if (err || !frag)
		return err;

tcf_ct_ipv4_is_fragment() returns -EINVAL or -ENOMEM;
tcf_ct_ipv6_is_fragment() adds -EPROTO when ipv6_find_hdr() fails. None of
them frees or queues the skb, so on that path the caller still owns it.

tcf_ct_act() however funnels every non-zero return into the
ownership-transfer exit:

	err = tcf_ct_handle_fragments(net, skb, family, p->zone, &defrag);
	if (err)
		goto out_frag;
	...
out_frag:
	if (err != -EINPROGRESS)
		tcf_action_inc_drop_qstats(&c->common);
	return TC_ACT_CONSUMED;

TC_ACT_CONSUMED means the action took ownership of the skb, so no caller
frees it - sch_handle_ingress(), sch_handle_egress() and
tcf_qevent_handle() all deliberately skip the free for that verdict. The
skb is therefore orphaned: one sk_buff plus its data buffer is leaked per
malformed packet, unbounded. Note the drop counter is already incremented
for these errors, so the statistics claim a drop that never happens.

Three different ownership states reach out_frag: today - the skb may be
queued by the defrag engine (-EINPROGRESS), already freed by
nf_ct_handle_fragments(), or still owned by us. Tell the caller which of
those it is, and free the packet ourselves in the last case, which
restores the TC_ACT_SHOT behaviour that predated the Fixes: commit.

Reproduced on v7.2-rc6 with a 54-byte frame carrying a 40-byte IPv6
header with nexthdr = 0 (hop-by-hop) and nothing after it, on a
clsact ingress chain with "action ct". kmemleak reports one leaked
232-byte skbuff_head_cache object plus its 704-byte data buffer per
packet; with this patch it reports none.

Fixes: 3f14b377d0 ("net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8+
Signed-off-by: Hyunjung Ko <hj351016@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806101235.809370-1-hj351016@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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