* [PATCH net] rds: drop incoming messages that cross network namespace boundaries
@ 2026-07-08 2:43 Allison Henderson
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From: Allison Henderson @ 2026-07-08 2:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev, pabeni, edumazet, kuba, horms; +Cc: achender, qwe.aldo
From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
rds_find_bound() looks up the destination socket using a global
rhashtable keyed solely on (addr, port, scope_id). Network namespaces
are not part of the key, so a sender in netns A can deliver an incoming
message (inc) to a socket that lives in a different netns B.
When this happens, inc->i_conn points to an rds_connection whose c_net
is netns A, but the receiving rs lives in netns B. Once the child
process that created netns A exits, cleanup_net() calls
rds_loop_exit_net() -> rds_loop_kill_conns() -> rds_conn_destroy(),
freeing that connection. If the survivor socket in netns B still holds
the inc, any subsequent dereference of inc->i_conn is a use-after-free.
There are two dangerous sites in rds_clear_recv_queue():
1. inc->i_conn->c_lcong (offset 88 of freed rds_connection, size 200)
read via rds_recv_rcvbuf_delta() -- confirmed by KASAN.
2. inc->i_conn->c_trans->inc_free(inc) (function pointer at offset 80)
called via rds_inc_put() when the inc refcount reaches zero -- same
race window, potential call-through-freed-object primitive.
The bug is reachable from unprivileged user namespaces
(CLONE_NEWUSER + CLONE_NEWNET), available since Linux 3.8.
Fix this by rejecting the delivery in rds_recv_incoming() when the
socket returned by rds_find_bound() belongs to a different network
namespace than the connection that carried the message. Use the
existing rds_conn_net() / sock_net() helpers and net_eq() for the
comparison.
Fixes: c809195f5523 ("rds: clean up loopback rds_connections on netns deletion")
Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
net/rds/recv.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/rds/recv.c b/net/rds/recv.c
index 4b3f9e4a8bfd..cf3884d87931 100644
--- a/net/rds/recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/recv.c
@@ -399,6 +399,21 @@ void rds_recv_incoming(struct rds_connection *conn, struct in6_addr *saddr,
goto out;
}
+ /*
+ * rds_find_bound() uses a global (netns-agnostic) hash table.
+ * An RDS connection created in netns A can match a socket bound
+ * in the init netns, delivering inc cross-netns with inc->i_conn
+ * pointing into netns A. When cleanup_net() then frees that conn,
+ * any subsequent dereference of inc->i_conn is a use-after-free.
+ * Drop the inc if the receiving socket lives in a different netns.
+ */
+ if (!net_eq(sock_net(rds_rs_to_sk(rs)), rds_conn_net(conn))) {
+ rds_stats_inc(s_recv_drop_no_sock);
+ rds_sock_put(rs);
+ rs = NULL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
/* Process extension headers */
rds_recv_incoming_exthdrs(inc, rs);
--
2.53.0
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