* Re: [PATCH net v2] net: tun: fix race condition between tun_attach and tun_get_user with XDP
2026-09-20 3:02 [PATCH net v2] net: tun: fix race condition between tun_attach and tun_get_user with XDP xietangxin
@ 2026-09-21 2:53 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
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From: netdev-bot+sashiko @ 2026-09-21 2:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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- [High] Incomplete fix: the new "publish tfile->tun last" ordering is a
no-op on the TUNSETQUEUE/IFF_ATTACH_QUEUE re-attach path, so the…
Pre-existing issues:
- [Medium] Mirror-image ordering problem on the detach path is untouched
and reproduces the same netif_get_rxqueue() WARN_ONCE.
- [Medium] tun_set_real_num_queues() (drivers/net/tun.c:526-530) is void
and discards the documented error returns of…
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net: tun: fix race condition between tun_attach and tun_get_user with XDP
This moves the rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun) publication in
tun_attach() to after tun_set_real_num_queues(), so that
dev->real_num_rx_queues is raised before a concurrent writer can observe
the newly attached tun_file. The intent is to stop the WARN_ONCE in
netif_get_rxqueue() that fires when a recorded rx queue index is not
below dev->real_num_rx_queues.
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index 5a302709a68a..2dfca25b86e9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -811,11 +811,11 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
> * initialized tfile; otherwise we risk using half-initialized
> * object.
> */
> - if (publish_tun)
> - rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
> rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles[tun->numqueues], tfile);
> WRITE_ONCE(tun->numqueues, tun->numqueues + 1);
> tun_set_real_num_queues(tun);
[Severity: Medium]
This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but the new ordering guarantee
now rests on tun_set_real_num_queues() having actually taken effect, and
that function drops both return values:
drivers/net/tun.c:
static void tun_set_real_num_queues(struct tun_struct *tun)
{
netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(tun->dev, tun->numqueues);
netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(tun->dev, tun->numqueues);
}
For an already registered device, netif_set_real_num_rx_queues() returns
early without assigning dev->real_num_rx_queues:
net/core/dev.c:netif_set_real_num_rx_queues() {
rc = net_rx_queue_update_kobjects(dev, dev->real_num_rx_queues,
rxq);
if (rc)
return rc;
}
dev->real_num_rx_queues = rxq;
}
and net_rx_queue_update_kobjects() can fail on rx_queue_add_kobject():
net/core/net-sysfs.c:net_rx_queue_update_kobjects() {
error = rx_queue_add_kobject(dev, i);
if (error) {
new_num = old_num;
break;
}
}
In that case tun_attach() has already published tun->tfiles[] and bumped
tun->numqueues, and then publishes tfile->tun and returns 0. Does that
leave tfile->queue_index == dev->real_num_rx_queues permanently, so that
every write() on that queue going through the generic XDP path hits the
same netif_get_rxqueue() warning the commit message is trying to remove?
Should the error be propagated and the numqueues/tfiles publication
unwound instead?
[Severity: Medium]
This is a pre-existing issue and the patch does not touch __tun_detach(),
but the decreasing direction looks like the same mismatch. In
__tun_detach() the surviving queue's index is lowered and numqueues is
decremented well before the real queue count is reduced:
drivers/net/tun.c:__tun_detach() {
spin_lock(&ntfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock);
ntfile->queue_index = index;
ntfile->xdp_rxq.queue_index = index;
...
WRITE_ONCE(tun->numqueues, tun->numqueues - 1);
...
synchronize_net();
...
tun_set_real_num_queues(tun);
}
The moved tfile keeps its ->tun published, and the queue_index sample in
tun_get_user() happens before the rcu_read_lock() around the XDP call:
skb_record_rx_queue(skb, tfile->queue_index);
if (skb_xdp) {
...
local_bh_disable();
rcu_read_lock();
so the synchronize_net() above does not fence a writer that already
sampled the old, higher index. Can a write() racing with
TUNSETQUEUE|IFF_DETACH_QUEUE reach do_xdp_generic() after
dev->real_num_rx_queues has shrunk and hit the same WARN_ONCE? Also, for
the clean == false case, tun_disable_queue() never clears tfile->tun and
the stale queue_index stays in place while the fd is still writable.
Should the commit message scope its claim to the attach path, or should
the detach direction be handled too?
> + if (publish_tun)
> + rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
> out:
> return err;
> }
[Severity: High]
Is this reordering effective on the TUNSETQUEUE re-attach path? A queue
detached with IFF_DETACH_QUEUE goes through __tun_detach(tfile, false),
where clearing tfile->tun only happens in the clean case:
drivers/net/tun.c:__tun_detach() {
if (clean) {
RCU_INIT_POINTER(tfile->tun, NULL);
sock_put(&tfile->sk);
} else {
tun_disable_queue(tun, tfile);
tun_napi_disable(tfile);
}
}
So on that fd tfile->tun stays non-NULL and visible. tun_set_queue()
then re-attaches with publish_tun = true:
ret = tun_attach(tun, file, false, tun->flags & IFF_NAPI,
tun->flags & IFF_NAPI_FRAGS, true);
and tun_attach() writes the new, higher index long before the queue count
is raised:
spin_lock(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock);
tfile->queue_index = tun->numqueues;
spin_unlock(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock);
Since the moved rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun) stores a value that
readers can already see, does it order anything for them on this path? A
concurrent write() on the same fd still passes tun_get(), records the new
index and calls into XDP:
skb_record_rx_queue(skb, tfile->queue_index);
if (skb_xdp) {
reaching net/core/dev.c:netif_get_rxqueue():
if (unlikely(index >= dev->real_num_rx_queues)) {
WARN_ONCE(dev->real_num_rx_queues > 1,
which is the warning quoted in the commit message, plus the silent
fallback to dev->_rx[0] so the program runs against the wrong
netdev_rx_queue. The window is not small either, because
netif_set_real_num_rx_queues() does GFP_KERNEL sysfs work. Would either
clearing tfile->tun on the non-clean detach, or publishing
tfile->queue_index only after tun_set_real_num_queues(), close the attach
path in all cases rather than only when tfile->tun transitions from NULL?
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