From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Ralf Lici <ralf@mandelbit.com>, Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>,
Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Subject: [PATCH net 5/6] ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn()
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:41:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720144131.3657121-6-antonio@openvpn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260720144131.3657121-1-antonio@openvpn.net>
From: Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>
unlock_ovpn() iterates over the release_list using llist_for_each_entry()
and drops the peer reference inside the loop body via ovpn_peer_put().
If this drops the last reference, the peer is eventually freed. However,
llist_for_each_entry() reads peer->release_entry.next in the loop advance
expression, which runs after the body. By that time the peer may have
already been freed, resulting in a use after free when advancing to the
next list entry.
Fix this by using llist_for_each_entry_safe(), which caches the next
pointer before executing the loop body.
Fixes: 80747caef33d ("ovpn: introduce the ovpn_peer object")
Signed-off-by: Marco Baffo <marco@mandelbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
---
drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
index 2b6096d8b1cc..8fdbb5050690 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
@@ -26,11 +26,12 @@ static void unlock_ovpn(struct ovpn_priv *ovpn,
struct llist_head *release_list)
__releases(&ovpn->lock)
{
- struct ovpn_peer *peer;
+ struct ovpn_peer *peer, *next;
spin_unlock_bh(&ovpn->lock);
- llist_for_each_entry(peer, release_list->first, release_entry) {
+ llist_for_each_entry_safe(peer, next, release_list->first,
+ release_entry) {
ovpn_socket_release(peer);
ovpn_peer_put(peer);
}
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-20 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-20 14:41 [PATCH net 0/6] pull request: fixes for ovpn 2026-07-20 Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 1/6] ovpn: avoid putting unrelated P2P peer on socket release Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 2/6] ovpn: fix peer refcount leak in TCP error paths Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 3/6] ovpn: hold peer before scheduling keepalive work Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 4/6] selftests/net: ovpn: fix getaddrinfo memory leak in ovpn_parse_remote() Antonio Quartulli
2026-07-20 14:41 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2026-07-20 14:41 ` [PATCH net 6/6] ovpn: use monotonic clock for peer keepalive timeouts Antonio Quartulli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-06-08 15:07 [PATCH net 0/6] pull request: fixes for ovpn 2026-06-08 Antonio Quartulli
2026-06-08 15:07 ` [PATCH net 5/6] ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn() Antonio Quartulli
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