From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
<subash.a.kasiviswanathan@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Sean Tranchetti <sean.tranchetti@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix endpoint use-after-free in rmnet_dellink()
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 05:00:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260511120015.2298403-4-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Security Analysis <xmei5@asu.edu>
rmnet_dellink() removes the endpoint from the hash table with
hlist_del_init_rcu() and then immediately frees it with kfree(). However,
RCU readers on the receive path (rmnet_rx_handler ->
__rmnet_map_ingress_handler) may still hold a reference to the endpoint and
dereference ep->egress_dev after the memory has been freed. The endpoint is
a kmalloc-32 object, and the stale read at offset 8 corresponds to the
egress_dev pointer.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffde942eef
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 137 Comm: poc_write Not tainted 7.0.0+ #4 PREEMPTLAZY
RIP: 0010:rmnet_vnd_rx_fixup (rmnet_vnd.c:27)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__rmnet_map_ingress_handler (rmnet_handlers.c:48 rmnet_handlers.c:101)
rmnet_rx_handler (rmnet_handlers.c:129 rmnet_handlers.c:235)
__netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:6096)
__netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6208)
netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6467)
tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1955)
tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2003)
vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:688)
ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:740)
</TASK>
Replace kfree() with kfree_rcu_mightsleep() so the endpoint memory remains
valid through the RCU grace period. Also remove the rmnet_vnd_dellink() call
and inline only the nr_rmnet_devs decrement, since rmnet_vnd_dellink() would
set ep->egress_dev to NULL during the grace period, creating a data race with
lockless readers.
Fixes: ceed73a2cf4a ("drivers: net: ethernet: qualcomm: rmnet: Initial implementation")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
index 269c0449760c..2e17a43aec5a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
@@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ static void rmnet_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
ep = rmnet_get_endpoint(real_port, mux_id);
if (ep) {
hlist_del_init_rcu(&ep->hlnode);
- rmnet_vnd_dellink(mux_id, real_port, ep);
- kfree(ep);
+ real_port->nr_rmnet_devs--;
+ kfree_rcu_mightsleep(ep);
}
netdev_upper_dev_unlink(real_dev, dev);
@@ -238,9 +238,9 @@ static void rmnet_force_unassociate_device(struct net_device *real_dev)
hash_for_each_safe(port->muxed_ep, bkt_ep, tmp_ep, ep, hlnode) {
unregister_netdevice_queue(ep->egress_dev, &list);
netdev_upper_dev_unlink(real_dev, ep->egress_dev);
- rmnet_vnd_dellink(ep->mux_id, port, ep);
hlist_del_init_rcu(&ep->hlnode);
- kfree(ep);
+ port->nr_rmnet_devs--;
+ kfree_rcu_mightsleep(ep);
}
rmnet_unregister_real_device(real_dev);
unregister_netdevice_many(&list);
--
2.43.0
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