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From: Kery Qi <qikeyu2017@gmail.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bjorn@kernel.org, hawk@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, magnus.karlsson@intel.com,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com,
	kuba@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, horms@kernel.org,
	ast@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
	Kery Qi <qikeyu2017@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf] xsk: fix init race causing NPD/UAF in xsk_create()
Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2026 18:46:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260109104643.1988-2-qikeyu2017@gmail.com> (raw)

xsk_init() previously registered the PF_XDP socket family before the
per-net subsystem and other prerequisites (netdevice notifier, caches)
were fully initialized.

This exposed .create = xsk_create() to user space while per-netns
state (net->xdp.lock/list) was still uninitialized. A task with
CAP_NET_RAW could trigger this during boot/module load by calling
socket(PF_XDP, SOCK_RAW, 0) concurrently with xsk_init(), leading
to a NULL pointer dereference or use-after-free in the list manipulation.

To fix this, move sock_register() to the end of the initialization
sequence, ensuring that all required kernel structures are ready before
exposing the AF_XDP interface to userspace.

Accordingly, reorder the error unwind path to ensure proper cleanup
in reverse order of initialization. Also, explicitly add
kmem_cache_destroy() in the error path to prevent leaking
xsk_tx_generic_cache if the registration fails.

Fixes: c0c77d8fb787 ("xsk: add user memory registration support sockopt")
Signed-off-by: Kery Qi <qikeyu2017@gmail.com>
---
 net/xdp/xsk.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk.c b/net/xdp/xsk.c
index f093c3453f64..d402f23dfd8e 100644
--- a/net/xdp/xsk.c
+++ b/net/xdp/xsk.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
 #include <linux/rculist.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <net/xdp_sock_drv.h>
 #include <net/busy_poll.h>
 #include <net/netdev_lock.h>
@@ -1922,13 +1923,9 @@ static int __init xsk_init(void)
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
 
-	err = sock_register(&xsk_family_ops);
-	if (err)
-		goto out_proto;
-
 	err = register_pernet_subsys(&xsk_net_ops);
 	if (err)
-		goto out_sk;
+		goto out_proto;
 
 	err = register_netdevice_notifier(&xsk_netdev_notifier);
 	if (err)
@@ -1939,17 +1936,21 @@ static int __init xsk_init(void)
 						 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
 	if (!xsk_tx_generic_cache) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out_unreg_notif;
+		goto out_notifier;
 	}
 
+	err = sock_register(&xsk_family_ops);
+	if (err)
+		goto out_cache;
+
 	return 0;
 
-out_unreg_notif:
+out_cache:
+	kmem_cache_destroy(xsk_tx_generic_cache);
+out_notifier:
 	unregister_netdevice_notifier(&xsk_netdev_notifier);
 out_pernet:
 	unregister_pernet_subsys(&xsk_net_ops);
-out_sk:
-	sock_unregister(PF_XDP);
 out_proto:
 	proto_unregister(&xsk_proto);
 out:
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-01-09 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-09 10:46 Kery Qi [this message]
2026-01-11 20:24 ` [PATCH bpf] xsk: fix init race causing NPD/UAF in xsk_create() Stanislav Fomichev
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2026-01-09 10:04 Kery Qi
2026-01-09 10:22 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-01-08 11:37 Kery Qi
2026-01-08 11:53 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-01-08 10:53 Kery Qi
2026-01-08 11:21 ` bot+bpf-ci

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