[PATCH 6.1 109/280] l2tp: avoid one data-race in l2tp_tunnel_del_work()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-04T15:09:16Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 7a29f6bf60f2590fe5e9c4decb451e19afad2bcf ]

We should read sk->sk_socket only when dealing with kernel sockets.

syzbot reported the following data-race:

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in l2tp_tunnel_del_work / sk_common_release

write to 0xffff88811c182b20 of 8 bytes by task 5365 on cpu 0:
sk_set_socket include/net/sock.h:2092 [inline]
sock_orphan include/net/sock.h:2118 [inline]
sk_common_release+0xae/0x230 net/core/sock.c:4003
udp_lib_close+0x15/0x20 include/net/udp.h:325
inet_release+0xce/0xf0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:437
__sock_release net/socket.c:662 [inline]
sock_close+0x6b/0x150 net/socket.c:1455
__fput+0x29b/0x650 fs/file_table.c:468
____fput+0x1c/0x30 fs/file_table.c:496
task_work_run+0x131/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:233
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
__exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:44 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1fe/0x740 kernel/entry/common.c:75
__exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x1e1/0x2b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff88811c182b20 of 8 bytes by task 827 on cpu 1:
l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x2f/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1418
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0x4ce/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x489/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x149/0x290 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

value changed: 0xffff88811b818000 -> 0x0000000000000000

Fixes: d00fa9adc528 ("l2tp: fix races with tunnel socket close")
Reported-by: syzbot+7312e82745f7fa2526db@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6968b029.050a0220.58bed.0016.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115092139.3066180-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
index 70da78ab95202..e0ca08ebd16a9 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
@@ -1250,8 +1250,6 @@ static void l2tp_tunnel_del_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct l2tp_tunnel *tunnel = container_of(work, struct l2tp_tunnel,
del_work);
- struct sock *sk = tunnel->sock;
- struct socket *sock = sk->sk_socket;

l2tp_tunnel_closeall(tunnel);

@@ -1259,6 +1257,8 @@ static void l2tp_tunnel_del_work(struct work_struct *work)
* the sk API to release it here.
*/
if (tunnel->fd < 0) {
+ struct socket *sock = tunnel->sock->sk_socket;
+
if (sock) {
kernel_sock_shutdown(sock, SHUT_RDWR);
sock_release(sock);
--
2.51.0