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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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