* [PATCH net] net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace
@ 2026-07-16 15:43 Aldo Ariel Panzardo
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From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo @ 2026-07-16 15:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam, David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet,
Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni
Cc: Simon Horman, Bjorn Andersson, netdev, linux-arm-msm,
linux-kernel, Aldo Ariel Panzardo
QRTR keeps its entire port and node state in module-global variables
that are not partitioned per network namespace: qrtr_local_nid is a
single global node id (always 1) and qrtr_ports is a single global
xarray. qrtr_port_lookup() and qrtr_local_enqueue() operate on that
global state with no network-namespace check, and qrtr_create() places
no restriction on the namespace a socket is created in.
As a result an unprivileged process that creates an AF_QIPCRTR socket
in a separate network namespace, e.g. via
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNET), can send QRTR datagrams -
including control-plane messages such as QRTR_TYPE_NEW_SERVER - to QRTR
sockets owned by another namespace, and vice versa. The receiving
socket sees such a message as coming from node id 1, indistinguishable
from a legitimate local client, breaking the isolation that network
namespaces are expected to provide.
QRTR is a transport to global hardware endpoints (the modem and other
remote processors) and has no per-namespace semantics; its in-kernel
name service already creates its socket in init_net only. Confine the
socket family to the initial network namespace, as other
non-namespace-aware socket families do (see llc_ui_create() and the
ieee802154 socket code).
Fixes: bdabad3e363d ("net: Add Qualcomm IPC router")
Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
---
net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c b/net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c
index d02ef9a74c3c..a30fa56e6aa3 100644
--- a/net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c
+++ b/net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c
@@ -1263,6 +1263,14 @@ static int qrtr_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock,
if (sock->type != SOCK_DGRAM)
return -EPROTOTYPE;
+ /* QRTR keeps its port and node state in module-global variables that
+ * are not partitioned per network namespace, and the in-kernel name
+ * service only operates in init_net. Confine the family to init_net so
+ * a socket in another namespace cannot reach the global control plane.
+ */
+ if (!net_eq(net, &init_net))
+ return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
+
sk = sk_alloc(net, AF_QIPCRTR, GFP_KERNEL, &qrtr_proto, kern);
if (!sk)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.43.0
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