From: Qing Ming <a0yami@mailbox.org>
To: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>,
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Cc: 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>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Qing Ming <a0yami@mailbox.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ovpn: avoid putting unrelated P2P peer on socket release
Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 16:15:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260523081543.94507-1-a0yami@mailbox.org> (raw)
ovpn_peer_release_p2p() is called when an OVPN UDP socket is being
destroyed. It checks the currently published P2P peer and releases it only
if that peer still uses the socket being destroyed.
A peer replacement can publish a new peer before the old UDP socket is
destroyed. When the old socket destruction path runs afterwards,
ovpn_peer_release_p2p() observes the new peer through ovpn->peer. Since the
new peer uses a different socket, the function takes the socket mismatch
branch.
That branch still calls ovpn_peer_put(peer). At this point, however, peer
is the currently published replacement peer, not the peer associated with
the socket being destroyed. Dropping its reference can free it while
ovpn->peer still points to it, leading to later use-after-free accesses
from the peer and socket cleanup paths.
KASAN reports this as a slab-use-after-free on the kmalloc-1k ovpn_peer
object. In the reproducer, the object is allocated from ovpn_peer_new() via
ovpn_nl_peer_new_doit(), and freed through ovpn_peer_release_rcu() from RCU
callback processing. Observed access sites include ovpn_peer_remove(),
ovpn_socket_release(), ovpn_nl_peer_del_notify(), and unlock_ovpn().
Fix this by returning from the socket mismatch branch without putting the
peer.
Fixes: f6226ae7a0cd ("ovpn: introduce the ovpn_socket object")
Signed-off-by: Qing Ming <a0yami@mailbox.org>
---
drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
index a09d61296425..1844d97154ce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
@@ -1167,7 +1167,6 @@ static void ovpn_peer_release_p2p(struct ovpn_priv *ovpn, struct sock *sk,
ovpn_sock = rcu_access_pointer(peer->sock);
if (!ovpn_sock || ovpn_sock->sk != sk) {
spin_unlock_bh(&ovpn->lock);
- ovpn_peer_put(peer);
return;
}
}
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-23 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-23 8:15 Qing Ming [this message]
2026-05-27 8:55 ` Simon Horman
2026-05-27 12:45 ` Antonio Quartulli
2026-05-28 10:11 ` Simon Horman
2026-05-27 12:42 ` Antonio Quartulli
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