From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jiayuan.chen@linux.dev, Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>,
syzbot+72e3ea390c305de0e259@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2] atm: lec: fix null-ptr-deref in lec_arp_clear_vccs
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:32:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260225123250.189289-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
syzkaller reported a null-ptr-deref in lec_arp_clear_vccs().
This issue can be easily reproduced using the syzkaller reproducer.
In the ATM LANE (LAN Emulation) module, the same atm_vcc can be shared by
multiple lec_arp_table entries (e.g., via entry->vcc or entry->recv_vcc).
When the underlying VCC is closed, lec_vcc_close() iterates over all
ARP entries and calls lec_arp_clear_vccs() for each matched entry.
For example, when lec_vcc_close() iterates through the hlists in
priv->lec_arp_empty_ones or other ARP tables:
1. In the first iteration, for the first matched ARP entry sharing the VCC,
lec_arp_clear_vccs() frees the associated vpriv (which is vcc->user_back)
and sets vcc->user_back to NULL.
2. In the second iteration, for the next matched ARP entry sharing the same
VCC, lec_arp_clear_vccs() is called again. It obtains a NULL vpriv from
vcc->user_back (via LEC_VCC_PRIV(vcc)) and then attempts to dereference it
via `vcc->pop = vpriv->old_pop`, leading to a null-ptr-deref crash.
Fix this by adding a null check for vpriv before dereferencing
it. If vpriv is already NULL, it means the VCC has been cleared
by a previous call, so we can safely skip the cleanup and just
clear the entry's vcc/recv_vcc pointers.
The entire cleanup block (including vcc_release_async()) is placed inside
the vpriv guard because a NULL vpriv indicates the VCC has already been
fully released by a prior iteration — repeating the teardown would
redundantly set flags and trigger callbacks on an already-closing socket.
The Fixes tag points to the initial commit because the entry->vcc path has
been vulnerable since the original code. The entry->recv_vcc path was later
added by commit 8d9f73c0ad2f ("atm: fix a memory leak of vcc->user_back")
with the same pattern, and both paths are fixed here.
Reported-by: syzbot+72e3ea390c305de0e259@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68c95a83.050a0220.3c6139.0e5c.GAE@google.com/T/
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
---
- Add Reviewed-by from Simon Horman
- Drop the entry->recv_vcc->push to vcc->push cleanup to keep
the patch minimal (Dan Carpenter)
- Clarify why vcc_release_async() is inside the vpriv guard
- Clarify why the Fixes tag points to the initial commit
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6bc6f7fe686e53fe2aaca467920ccf300546d5bf@linux.dev/T/#t
---
net/atm/lec.c | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/atm/lec.c b/net/atm/lec.c
index afb8d3eb2185..c39dc5d36797 100644
--- a/net/atm/lec.c
+++ b/net/atm/lec.c
@@ -1260,24 +1260,28 @@ static void lec_arp_clear_vccs(struct lec_arp_table *entry)
struct lec_vcc_priv *vpriv = LEC_VCC_PRIV(vcc);
struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *)vcc->proto_data;
- vcc->pop = vpriv->old_pop;
- if (vpriv->xoff)
- netif_wake_queue(dev);
- kfree(vpriv);
- vcc->user_back = NULL;
- vcc->push = entry->old_push;
- vcc_release_async(vcc, -EPIPE);
+ if (vpriv) {
+ vcc->pop = vpriv->old_pop;
+ if (vpriv->xoff)
+ netif_wake_queue(dev);
+ kfree(vpriv);
+ vcc->user_back = NULL;
+ vcc->push = entry->old_push;
+ vcc_release_async(vcc, -EPIPE);
+ }
entry->vcc = NULL;
}
if (entry->recv_vcc) {
struct atm_vcc *vcc = entry->recv_vcc;
struct lec_vcc_priv *vpriv = LEC_VCC_PRIV(vcc);
- kfree(vpriv);
- vcc->user_back = NULL;
+ if (vpriv) {
+ kfree(vpriv);
+ vcc->user_back = NULL;
- entry->recv_vcc->push = entry->old_recv_push;
- vcc_release_async(entry->recv_vcc, -EPIPE);
+ entry->recv_vcc->push = entry->old_recv_push;
+ vcc_release_async(entry->recv_vcc, -EPIPE);
+ }
entry->recv_vcc = NULL;
}
}
--
2.43.0
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2026-02-28 17:40 ` [PATCH net v2] atm: lec: fix null-ptr-deref in lec_arp_clear_vccs patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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