CVE-2026-98625: netfilter: flowtable: publish HW_DEAD after worker is done
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: flowtable: publish HW_DEAD after worker is done
flow_offload_work_del() sets NF_FLOW_HW_DEAD before the work handler
clears NF_FLOW_HW_PENDING. Once a flow is both HW_DYING and HW_DEAD, a
concurrent garbage collection pass can remove it and schedule it for RCU
freeing.
The offload worker holds neither an RCU read lock nor a reference to the
flow. If it is preempted after publishing HW_DEAD, the RCU callback can
free the flow before the worker resumes and clears HW_PENDING, resulting
in a use-after-free.
Move HW_DEAD publication to the common worker epilogue after the pending
bit is cleared, making it the final flow access by destroy work. Order all
preceding flow accesses before publishing the bit that allows garbage
collection to free the object.
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