From: Anil Kaushik <anilkaushikwireless@gmail.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
osmocom-net-gprs@lists.osmocom.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Anil Kaushik <anilkaushikwireless@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] gtp: Require 'CAP_NET_ADMIN' when joining the gtp multicast group
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:57:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021065750.2069795-1-anilkaushikwireless@gmail.com> (raw)
The gtp generic netlink family sends notifications on its "gtp"
multicast group when a PDP context is added or deleted, and for GTP-U
echo responses. They carry the same attributes as a GETPDP reply: the
MS and peer addresses, and the TEIDs, or the TID and the flow label.
GETPDP requires CAP_NET_ADMIN, but generic netlink lets any user join a
multicast group by default, so an unprivileged user in the network
namespace of the gtp device can read all of this.
Fix by marking the group with GENL_MCAST_CAP_NET_ADMIN, like the psample
"packets" group. Only users with CAP_NET_ADMIN in the user namespace
owning the network namespace can then join it.
Tested by joining the group as root, as root without CAP_NET_ADMIN, and
as an unprivileged user:
Before:
root: joined
root without CAP_NET_ADMIN: joined
nobody: joined
After:
root: joined
root without CAP_NET_ADMIN: EPERM
nobody: EPERM
Fixes: 50aba46c234e ("gtp: add notification mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Anil Kaushik <anilkaushikwireless@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/gtp.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/gtp.c b/drivers/net/gtp.c
index 69fe5717846b..e5ff1621ed62 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gtp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gtp.c
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ enum gtp_multicast_groups {
};
static const struct genl_multicast_group gtp_genl_mcgrps[] = {
- [GTP_GENL_MCGRP] = { .name = GTP_GENL_MCGRP_NAME },
+ [GTP_GENL_MCGRP] = { .name = GTP_GENL_MCGRP_NAME,
+ .flags = GENL_MCAST_CAP_NET_ADMIN, },
};
static void pdp_context_delete(struct pdp_ctx *pctx);
--
2.25.1
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