From: Rongguang Wei <clementwei90@163.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, jasowangio@gmail.com,
andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v5 1/2] tun: keep a kernel copy of the socket filter program
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 16:04:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261008080420.132050-2-clementwei90@163.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261008080420.132050-1-clementwei90@163.com>
From: Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>
TUNATTACHFILTER copies only the sock_fprog header, so tun->fprog.filter
stays a pointer into the address space of the process that issued the
ioctl. tun_attach() reads it again whenever a queue is attached to the
persistent device later on.
Rebuilding the filter from that pointer is not reliable. With the inverted
check below, a failed read (-EFAULT for an unmapped address, -EINVAL for
bytes that are not a valid classic BPF program) was not fatal: for a new
tfile err is overwritten by "err = 0", so the queue was attached without a
filter. And when the read succeeded, the early return meant the queue was
never published at all.
Keep the program in the kernel instead: tun->fprog_kern holds the
instructions, and each queue gets its own program built from it with the
new sk_attach_filter_kern(), the kernel memory counterpart of
sk_attach_filter(). The copy is freed when the filter is detached or
replaced and with the device, and tun->fprog is left untouched so
TUNGETFILTER keeps its uapi behaviour.
Also fix the inverted check at the same time when tun_attach() returns
early when sk_attach_filter_kern() succeeds instead of when it fails.
Neither change works on its own: with only the kernel copy, every re-attach
returns 0 without publishing the queue; with only the check fixed, a
re-attach that used to succeed without installing a filter would start to
fail.
sk_attach_filter_kern() builds the program with bpf_prog_create(), which
does not keep an original program, so SO_GET_FILTER returns -EACCES and
sock_diag omits the filter for sockets that use it. tun sockets are not
exposed as file descriptors, so this is not user visible.
Because the length is checked in tun_copy_filter() before anything is
replaced, a TUNATTACHFILTER with a bad header now fails early and leaves
the previously attached filter in place; before this series the failure
happened on queue 0 and cleared filter_attached.
The inverted check was discovered by manual code inspection first [1], and
the review of v1 reported the other things.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260923025653.59348-1-clementwei90@163.com/
Fixes: 54f968d6efdb ("tuntap: move socket to tun_file")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/179027275318.2160803.4185895144088175048@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
include/linux/filter.h | 1 +
net/core/filter.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 5a302709a68a..b58ad67b77ad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ struct tun_struct {
int sndbuf;
struct tap_filter txflt;
struct sock_fprog fprog;
+ struct sock_fprog_kern fprog_kern;
/* protected by rtnl lock */
bool filter_attached;
u32 msg_enable;
@@ -722,12 +723,47 @@ static void tun_force_wake_queue(struct tun_struct *tun,
spin_unlock_bh(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock);
}
+/* Copy the filter that @argp points at into the kernel, so that it can be
+ * installed again later, independent of the ioctl caller's address space.
+ * tun->fprog and tun->fprog_kern are updated only once the copy succeeded.
+ */
+static int tun_copy_filter(struct tun_struct *tun, struct sock_fprog __user *argp)
+{
+ struct sock_fprog fprog;
+ struct sock_filter *insns;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&fprog, argp, sizeof(fprog)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ if (!fprog.len || fprog.len > BPF_MAXINSNS)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ insns = kmalloc_array(fprog.len, sizeof(struct sock_filter),
+ GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+ if (!insns)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(insns, fprog.filter,
+ fprog.len * sizeof(struct sock_filter))) {
+ kfree(insns);
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+
+ kfree(tun->fprog_kern.filter);
+ tun->fprog_kern.len = fprog.len;
+ tun->fprog_kern.filter = insns;
+ tun->fprog = fprog;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
bool skip_filter, bool napi, bool napi_frags,
bool publish_tun)
{
struct tun_file *tfile = file->private_data;
struct net_device *dev = tun->dev;
+ bool rollback_filter = false;
int err;
err = security_tun_dev_attach(tfile->socket.sk, tun->security);
@@ -752,10 +788,11 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
/* Re-attach the filter to persist device */
if (!skip_filter && (tun->filter_attached == true)) {
lock_sock(tfile->socket.sk);
- err = sk_attach_filter(&tun->fprog, tfile->socket.sk);
+ err = sk_attach_filter_kern(&tun->fprog_kern, tfile->socket.sk);
release_sock(tfile->socket.sk);
- if (!err)
+ if (err)
goto out;
+ rollback_filter = true;
}
if (!tfile->detached &&
@@ -817,6 +854,11 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
WRITE_ONCE(tun->numqueues, tun->numqueues + 1);
tun_set_real_num_queues(tun);
out:
+ if (err && rollback_filter) {
+ lock_sock(tfile->socket.sk);
+ sk_detach_filter(tfile->socket.sk);
+ release_sock(tfile->socket.sk);
+ }
return err;
}
@@ -2397,6 +2439,7 @@ static void tun_free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
security_tun_dev_free_security(tun->security);
__tun_set_ebpf(tun, &tun->steering_prog, NULL);
__tun_set_ebpf(tun, &tun->filter_prog, NULL);
+ kfree(tun->fprog_kern.filter);
}
static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev)
@@ -3059,6 +3102,9 @@ static void tun_detach_filter(struct tun_struct *tun, int n)
release_sock(tfile->socket.sk);
}
+ kfree(tun->fprog_kern.filter);
+ tun->fprog_kern.filter = NULL;
+ tun->fprog_kern.len = 0;
tun->filter_attached = false;
}
@@ -3070,7 +3116,7 @@ static int tun_attach_filter(struct tun_struct *tun)
for (i = 0; i < tun->numqueues; i++) {
tfile = rtnl_dereference(tun->tfiles[i]);
lock_sock(tfile->socket.sk);
- ret = sk_attach_filter(&tun->fprog, tfile->socket.sk);
+ ret = sk_attach_filter_kern(&tun->fprog_kern, tfile->socket.sk);
release_sock(tfile->socket.sk);
if (ret) {
tun_detach_filter(tun, i);
@@ -3418,8 +3464,8 @@ static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
ret = -EINVAL;
if ((tun->flags & TUN_TYPE_MASK) != IFF_TAP)
break;
- ret = -EFAULT;
- if (copy_from_user(&tun->fprog, argp, sizeof(tun->fprog)))
+ ret = tun_copy_filter(tun, argp);
+ if (ret)
break;
ret = tun_attach_filter(tun);
diff --git a/include/linux/filter.h b/include/linux/filter.h
index 39decde7fc73..0de5a738fb26 100644
--- a/include/linux/filter.h
+++ b/include/linux/filter.h
@@ -1218,6 +1218,7 @@ int bpf_prog_create_from_user(struct bpf_prog **pfp, struct sock_fprog *fprog,
void bpf_prog_destroy(struct bpf_prog *fp);
int sk_attach_filter(struct sock_fprog *fprog, struct sock *sk);
+int sk_attach_filter_kern(struct sock_fprog_kern *fprog, struct sock *sk);
int sk_attach_bpf(u32 ufd, struct sock *sk);
int sk_reuseport_attach_filter(struct sock_fprog *fprog, struct sock *sk);
int sk_reuseport_attach_bpf(u32 ufd, struct sock *sk);
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index 70dc621672f2..53cdf4ec4ef5 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -1567,6 +1567,43 @@ int sk_attach_filter(struct sock_fprog *fprog, struct sock *sk)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sk_attach_filter);
+/**
+ * sk_attach_filter_kern - attach a classic BPF filter held in kernel memory
+ * @fprog: program to attach, with @fprog->filter pointing at kernel memory
+ * @sk: socket to attach the filter to
+ *
+ * Attach a copy of a classic BPF program that the kernel already holds, the
+ * way sk_attach_filter() does for one that still lives in user space. The
+ * caller must hold the socket lock; SOCK_FILTER_LOCKED is checked here.
+ *
+ * The program is built by bpf_prog_create(), which does not keep an original
+ * copy of the instructions. sk_get_filter() therefore returns -EACCES and
+ * sock_diag leaves the filter out for a socket that uses this helper. A
+ * classic BPF program cannot be duplicated with bpf_prog_copy(), so keeping
+ * the original would cost another allocation and a copy per attach.
+ */
+int sk_attach_filter_kern(struct sock_fprog_kern *fprog, struct sock *sk)
+{
+ struct bpf_prog *prog;
+ int err;
+
+ if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_FILTER_LOCKED))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ err = bpf_prog_create(&prog, fprog);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ err = __sk_attach_prog(prog, sk);
+ if (err < 0) {
+ __bpf_prog_release(prog);
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sk_attach_filter_kern);
+
int sk_reuseport_attach_filter(struct sock_fprog *fprog, struct sock *sk)
{
struct bpf_prog *prog = __get_filter(fprog, sk);
--
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-08 8:04 [PATCH net v5 0/2] tun: fix re-attaching the socket filter Rongguang Wei
2026-10-08 8:04 ` Rongguang Wei [this message]
2026-10-08 8:04 ` [PATCH net v5 2/2] selftests: net: add TAP socket filter attach tests Rongguang Wei
2026-10-10 8:00 ` [PATCH net v5 0/2] tun: fix re-attaching the socket filter Simon Horman
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