From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] tipc: fix use-after-free of discoverer in tipc_disc_rcv()
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:33:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260610153349.2546041-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
bearer_disable() frees b->disc with tipc_disc_delete()'s plain kfree(),
but tipc_disc_rcv() still dereferences b->disc in RX softirq under
rcu_read_lock() (tipc_udp_recv -> tipc_rcv -> tipc_disc_rcv).
L2 bearers are safe thanks to the synchronize_net() in
tipc_disable_l2_media(), but the UDP bearer defers that call to the
cleanup_bearer() workqueue, so the discoverer is freed with no grace
period:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tipc_disc_rcv (net/tipc/discover.c:149)
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802348b728 by task poc_tipc/184
<IRQ>
tipc_disc_rcv (net/tipc/discover.c:149)
tipc_rcv (net/tipc/node.c:2126)
tipc_udp_recv (net/tipc/udp_media.c:391)
udp_rcv (net/ipv4/udp.c:2643)
ip_local_deliver_finish (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:241)
</IRQ>
Freed by task 181:
kfree (mm/slub.c:6565)
bearer_disable (net/tipc/bearer.c:418)
tipc_nl_bearer_disable (net/tipc/bearer.c:1001)
The bearer is freed with kfree_rcu(); free the discoverer the same way.
Add an rcu_head to struct tipc_discoverer and free it and its skb from an
RCU callback.
Reachable from an unprivileged user namespace: the TIPCv2 genl family is
netnsok and its bearer commands have no GENL_ADMIN_PERM. Needs CONFIG_TIPC
and CONFIG_TIPC_MEDIA_UDP.
Fixes: 25b0b9c4e835 ("tipc: handle collisions of 32-bit node address hash values")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
net/tipc/discover.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/tipc/discover.c b/net/tipc/discover.c
index 3e54d2df5683a..34dbe5ad10e09 100644
--- a/net/tipc/discover.c
+++ b/net/tipc/discover.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
* @skb: request message to be (repeatedly) sent
* @timer: timer governing period between requests
* @timer_intv: current interval between requests (in ms)
+ * @rcu: RCU head for deferred freeing
*/
struct tipc_discoverer {
u32 bearer_id;
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ struct tipc_discoverer {
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct timer_list timer;
unsigned long timer_intv;
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
};
/**
@@ -382,6 +384,14 @@ int tipc_disc_create(struct net *net, struct tipc_bearer *b,
return 0;
}
+static void tipc_disc_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rp)
+{
+ struct tipc_discoverer *d = container_of(rp, struct tipc_discoverer, rcu);
+
+ kfree_skb(d->skb);
+ kfree(d);
+}
+
/**
* tipc_disc_delete - destroy object sending periodic link setup requests
* @d: ptr to link dest structure
@@ -389,8 +399,7 @@ int tipc_disc_create(struct net *net, struct tipc_bearer *b,
void tipc_disc_delete(struct tipc_discoverer *d)
{
timer_shutdown_sync(&d->timer);
- kfree_skb(d->skb);
- kfree(d);
+ call_rcu(&d->rcu, tipc_disc_free_rcu);
}
/**
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-10 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-10 15:33 Weiming Shi [this message]
2026-06-10 17:36 ` [PATCH net] tipc: fix use-after-free of discoverer in tipc_disc_rcv() Eric Dumazet
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20260610153349.2546041-2-bestswngs@gmail.com \
--to=bestswngs@gmail.com \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=edumazet@google.com \
--cc=horms@kernel.org \
--cc=jmaloy@redhat.com \
--cc=kuba@kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=pabeni@redhat.com \
--cc=tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net \
--cc=xmei5@asu.edu \
--cc=ying.xue@windriver.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox