From: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2 2/2] netconsole: read np.dev under the RTNL in local_mac_show()
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:21:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261006-netcons-fixes-v2-2-ca652d55fd4a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261006-netcons-fixes-v2-0-ca652d55fd4a@gmail.com>
local_mac_show() loads nt->np.dev and dereferences it with no lock. It
can race with the interface going away and netconsole_netdev_event()
eventually calling netdev_put() and freeing the device before we
dereference it, leading to a UAF.
The window is only a few instructions wide, so I could only reproduce it
with an artificially widened window between the load and the
dereference:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in local_mac_show+0x4e/0x80
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800e990458 by task uaf/130
local_mac_show+0x4e/0x80
configfs_read_iter+0x187/0x260
vfs_read+0x453/0x5a0
Allocated by task 116:
alloc_netdev_mqs+0x78/0x830
rtnl_create_link+0x53b/0x5c0
Freed by task 121:
kfree+0x159/0x420
device_release+0x77/0x120
kobject_put+0xb5/0x160
netdev_run_todo+0x420/0x850
rtnl_dellink+0x259/0x5b0
Fixes: 0953864160bd ("[NETPOLL]: no need to store local_mac")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 1fb846ad07d1..830262864da2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -888,10 +888,17 @@ static ssize_t remote_ip_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
static ssize_t local_mac_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
{
- struct net_device *dev = to_target(item)->np.dev;
static const u8 bcast[ETH_ALEN] = { 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff };
+ struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
+ int ret;
- return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pM\n", dev ? dev->dev_addr : bcast);
+ /* Hold RTNL here so netconsole_netdev_event() doesn't tear down np.dev
+ * from under us.
+ */
+ rtnl_lock();
+ ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%pM\n", nt->np.dev ? nt->np.dev->dev_addr : bcast);
+ rtnl_unlock();
+ return ret;
}
static ssize_t remote_mac_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
--
2.55.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-06 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-06 18:21 [PATCH net v2 0/2] netconsole: fix target enable race and configfs read locking Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-10-06 18:21 ` [PATCH net v2 1/2] netconsole: finish enabling the target before releasing RTNL Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-10-06 18:21 ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte [this message]
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