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authorWeiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>2026-05-14 05:25:12 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-06-27 11:07:39 +0100
commitf193e38cb257d033060b63f1cfd94af076b3a2ab (patch)
treeb5a6d506cbbe453701796bc92f4c7ded5b3b23a3
parent0526931b16e5a118d367b7bfce7d797e63f7ac69 (diff)
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net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix endpoint use-after-free in rmnet_dellink()
commit d00c953a8f69921f484b629801766da68f27f658 upstream. rmnet_dellink() removes the endpoint from the hash table with hlist_del_init_rcu() and then immediately frees it with kfree(). However, RCU readers on the receive path (rmnet_rx_handler -> __rmnet_map_ingress_handler) may still hold a reference to the endpoint and dereference ep->egress_dev after the memory has been freed. The endpoint is a kmalloc-32 object, and the stale read at offset 8 corresponds to the egress_dev pointer. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffde942eef Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 137 Comm: poc_write Not tainted 7.0.0+ #4 PREEMPTLAZY RIP: 0010:rmnet_vnd_rx_fixup (rmnet_vnd.c:27) Call Trace: <TASK> __rmnet_map_ingress_handler (rmnet_handlers.c:48 rmnet_handlers.c:101) rmnet_rx_handler (rmnet_handlers.c:129 rmnet_handlers.c:235) __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:6096) __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6208) netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6467) tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1955) tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2003) vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:688) ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:740) </TASK> Add an rcu_head field to struct rmnet_endpoint and replace kfree() with kfree_rcu() so the endpoint memory remains valid through the RCU grace period. Also remove the rmnet_vnd_dellink() call and inline only the nr_rmnet_devs decrement, since rmnet_vnd_dellink() would set ep->egress_dev to NULL during the grace period, creating a data race with lockless readers. Fixes: ceed73a2cf4a ("drivers: net: ethernet: qualcomm: rmnet: Initial implementation") Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260514122511.3083479-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c8
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.h1
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
index 269c0449760c..78d4df55740a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
@@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ static void rmnet_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
ep = rmnet_get_endpoint(real_port, mux_id);
if (ep) {
hlist_del_init_rcu(&ep->hlnode);
- rmnet_vnd_dellink(mux_id, real_port, ep);
- kfree(ep);
+ real_port->nr_rmnet_devs--;
+ kfree_rcu(ep, rcu);
}
netdev_upper_dev_unlink(real_dev, dev);
@@ -238,9 +238,9 @@ static void rmnet_force_unassociate_device(struct net_device *real_dev)
hash_for_each_safe(port->muxed_ep, bkt_ep, tmp_ep, ep, hlnode) {
unregister_netdevice_queue(ep->egress_dev, &list);
netdev_upper_dev_unlink(real_dev, ep->egress_dev);
- rmnet_vnd_dellink(ep->mux_id, port, ep);
hlist_del_init_rcu(&ep->hlnode);
- kfree(ep);
+ port->nr_rmnet_devs--;
+ kfree_rcu(ep, rcu);
}
rmnet_unregister_real_device(real_dev);
unregister_netdevice_many(&list);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.h
index ed112d51ac5a..f50fae1c6bdd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct rmnet_endpoint {
u8 mux_id;
struct net_device *egress_dev;
struct hlist_node hlnode;
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
};
struct rmnet_egress_agg_params {