From: Junrui Luo via B4 Relay <devnull+moonafterrain.outlook.com@kernel.org>
To: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>,
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
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, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@outlook.com>,
Yuhao Jiang <danisjiang@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 2/2] ovpn: don't re-hash a removed peer on float
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:29:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805-ovpn-fixes-v1-2-763f8c237fb9@outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260805-ovpn-fixes-v1-0-763f8c237fb9@outlook.com>
From: Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@outlook.com>
ovpn_peer_endpoints_update() releases peer->lock before sending the
float notification, then re-acquires ovpn->lock and peer->lock to move
the peer to its new bucket in the by_transp_addr table. The only
re-check in that second critical section is for a NULL bind, which
cannot detect removal: bind is cleared by ovpn_peer_release() only
after the refcount drops to zero, and the RX path holds a reference
across the whole float.
Both paths take ovpn->lock, but that only serialises them - it does
not order them:
CPU0 (RX softirq) CPU1
ovpn_peer_endpoints_update()
spin_unlock_bh(&peer->lock)
ovpn_nl_peer_float_notify()
ovpn_nl_peer_del_doit()
ovpn_peer_remove() <- unlinks peer
unlock_ovpn() <- drops last ref
spin_lock_bh(&ovpn->lock)
hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu() <- removed peer re-linked
ovpn_peer_release_rcu() then frees the peer without unlinking it again,
leaving a dangling node in by_transp_addr that every later datagram
walks in ovpn_peer_get_by_transp_addr():
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ovpn_peer_endpoints_update+0xa5a/0x1010
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888008576858 by task trigger/78
Call Trace:
ovpn_peer_endpoints_update+0xa5a/0x1010
ovpn_decrypt_post+0x212/0x1040
ovpn_recv+0x2b6/0x540
ovpn_udp_encap_recv+0x21c/0x420
udp_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x1060/0x11a0
process_backlog+0x451/0x600
Freed by task 0:
kfree+0x11a/0x390
rcu_core+0x7aa/0x1570
Last potentially related work creation:
call_rcu+0x82/0x720
ovpn_peer_release_kref+0x5c/0xd0
ovpn_nl_peer_del_doit+0x355/0x550
Fix it by extending the existing early return to also bail out when the
peer is no longer hashed by ID. hash_entry_id is unhashed with
hlist_del_init_rcu() by ovpn_peer_remove() under ovpn->lock, which the
float path holds across both the check and the rehash, so a peer that
passes the test cannot be removed before it is re-linked.
Fixes: f0281c1d3732 ("ovpn: add support for updating local or remote UDP endpoint")
Reported-by: Yuhao Jiang <danisjiang@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@outlook.com>
---
drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
index a21d02ac715e..03886c46ec85 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
@@ -302,7 +302,12 @@ void ovpn_peer_endpoints_update(struct ovpn_peer *peer, struct sk_buff *skb)
spin_lock_bh(&peer->lock);
bind = rcu_dereference_protected(peer->bind,
lockdep_is_held(&peer->lock));
- if (unlikely(!bind)) {
+ /* peer->lock was released above, therefore the peer may have
+ * been removed in the meantime: ovpn_peer_remove() unhashes
+ * hash_entry_id under ovpn->lock. Re-linking a removed peer
+ * would leave it reachable after it has been freed.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!bind || hlist_unhashed(&peer->hash_entry_id))) {
spin_unlock_bh(&peer->lock);
spin_unlock_bh(&peer->ovpn->lock);
return;
--
2.51.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-05 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-05 13:29 [PATCH net 0/2] ovpn: fix peer float use-after-free and key slot NULL deref Junrui Luo via B4 Relay
2026-08-05 13:29 ` [PATCH net 1/2] ovpn: don't deref NULL key slot in ovpn_crypto_kill_key() Junrui Luo via B4 Relay
2026-08-06 9:43 ` Antonio Quartulli
2026-08-05 13:29 ` Junrui Luo via B4 Relay [this message]
2026-08-06 9:51 ` [PATCH net 2/2] ovpn: don't re-hash a removed peer on float Antonio Quartulli
2026-08-08 6:17 ` Junrui Luo
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