Re: [PATCH 1/1] l2tp: don't use l2tp_tunnel_find() in l2tp_ip and l2tp_ip6

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:02:49AM +0100, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
> 
> commit 8f7dc9ae4a7aece9fbc3e6637bdfa38b36bcdf09 upstream.
> 
> Using l2tp_tunnel_find() in l2tp_ip_recv() is wrong for two reasons:
> 
>   * It doesn't take a reference on the returned tunnel, which makes the
>     call racy wrt. concurrent tunnel deletion.
> 
>   * The lookup is only based on the tunnel identifier, so it can return
>     a tunnel that doesn't match the packet's addresses or protocol.
> 
> For example, a packet sent to an L2TPv3 over IPv6 tunnel can be
> delivered to an L2TPv2 over UDPv4 tunnel. This is worse than a simple
> cross-talk: when delivering the packet to an L2TP over UDP tunnel, the
> corresponding socket is UDP, where ->sk_backlog_rcv() is NULL. Calling
> sk_receive_skb() will then crash the kernel by trying to execute this
> callback.
> 
> And l2tp_tunnel_find() isn't even needed here. __l2tp_ip_bind_lookup()
> properly checks the socket binding and connection settings. It was used
> as a fallback mechanism for finding tunnels that didn't have their data
> path registered yet. But it's not limited to this case and can be used
> to replace l2tp_tunnel_find() in the general case.
> 
> Fix l2tp_ip6 in the same way.
> 
> Fixes: 0d76751fad77 ("l2tp: Add L2TPv3 IP encapsulation (no UDP) support")
> Fixes: a32e0eec7042 ("l2tp: introduce L2TPv3 IP encapsulation support for IPv6")
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
> ---
> Please consider queuing this patch for v4.9.y.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h