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From: Adarsh Das <adarshdas950@gmail.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: rafael@kernel.org, dakr@kernel.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+4393dfdddf166f2de2b0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	Adarsh Das <adarshdas950@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] kobject: fix uevent socket use-after-free on net namespace delete
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:38:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918060826.8434-1-adarshdas950@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026091732-armored-lilac-fec9@gregkh>

When a network namespace is deleted, we free its uevent socket. But
sometimes a device in that namespace is still being removed and tries to
send a uevent through that socket. The socket is already freed, so KASAN
reports a use-after-free.

This patch attempts the fix of taking a lock around both the send path
and the free path, and clear the pointer before freeing so nobody uses
it after free.

Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+4393dfdddf166f2de2b0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4393dfdddf166f2de2b0
Tested-by: syzbot <syzbot+4393dfdddf166f2de2b0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Tested-by: Adarsh Das <adarshdas950@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Adarsh Das <adarshdas950@gmail.com>
---
 lib/kobject_uevent.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index ddbc4d7482d2..cb674c2c3432 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
  *	Greg Kroah-Hartman	<greg@kroah.com>
  */
 
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
@@ -411,9 +412,14 @@ static int kobject_uevent_net_broadcast(struct kobject *kobj,
 						    devpath);
 	else {
 		const struct net *net = container_of(ns, struct net, ns);
-
-		ret = uevent_net_broadcast_tagged(net->uevent_sock->sk, env,
-						  action_string, devpath);
+		struct uevent_sock *ue_sk;
+
+		guard(mutex)(&uevent_sock_mutex);
+		ue_sk = net->uevent_sock;
+		if (ue_sk && ue_sk->sk)
+			ret = uevent_net_broadcast_tagged(ue_sk->sk, env,
+							  action_string,
+							  devpath);
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -804,14 +810,19 @@ static int uevent_net_init(struct net *net)
 
 static void uevent_net_exit(struct net *net)
 {
-	struct uevent_sock *ue_sk = net->uevent_sock;
+	struct uevent_sock *ue_sk;
 
-	if (sock_net(ue_sk->sk)->user_ns == &init_user_ns) {
-		mutex_lock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
-		list_del(&ue_sk->list);
-		mutex_unlock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
+	{
+		guard(mutex)(&uevent_sock_mutex);
+		ue_sk = net->uevent_sock;
+		net->uevent_sock = NULL;
+		if (ue_sk && sock_net(ue_sk->sk)->user_ns == &init_user_ns)
+			list_del(&ue_sk->list);
 	}
 
+	if (!ue_sk)
+		return;
+
 	netlink_kernel_release(ue_sk->sk);
 	kfree(ue_sk);
 }
-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-18  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-17 14:42 [PATCH] " Adarsh Das
2026-09-17 14:51 ` Greg KH
2026-09-17 15:18   ` Adarsh Das
2026-09-17 15:21     ` Greg KH
2026-09-17 17:08 ` [PATCH v2] " Adarsh Das
2026-09-17 17:08 ` Adarsh Das
2026-09-17 17:40   ` Greg KH
2026-09-18  6:08     ` Adarsh Das [this message]
2026-09-18  8:14       ` [PATCH v3] " Greg KH
2026-09-18  8:14       ` Greg KH
2026-09-18  9:43         ` [PATCH v4] " Adarsh Das

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