kernel/git/stable/linux.git/net/ax25/ax25_route.c, branch master

net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem

2026-04-23T17:24:02+00:00

Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree. This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet, and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree to protect our sanity. The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo: https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back. Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP, AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN) so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

ax25: Remove broken autobind

2025-03-24T10:26:53+00:00

Binding AX25 socket by using the autobind feature leads to memory leaks in ax25_connect() and also refcount leaks in ax25_release(). Memory leak was detected with kmemleak: ================================================================ unreferenced object 0xffff8880253cd680 (size 96): backtrace: __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof (./include/linux/kmemleak.h:43) kmemdup_noprof (mm/util.c:136) ax25_rt_autobind (net/ax25/ax25_route.c:428) ax25_connect (net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1282) __sys_connect_file (net/socket.c:2045) __sys_connect (net/socket.c:2064) __x64_sys_connect (net/socket.c:2067) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130) ================================================================ When socket is bound, refcounts must be incremented the way it is done in ax25_bind() and ax25_setsockopt() (SO_BINDTODEVICE). In case of autobind, the refcounts are not incremented. This bug leads to the following issue reported by Syzkaller: ================================================================ ax25_connect(): syz-executor318 uses autobind, please contact jreuter@yaina.de ------------[ cut here ]------------ refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5317 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0xfa/0x1d0 lib/refcount.c:31 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5317 Comm: syz-executor318 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4-syzkaller-00278-gece144f151ac #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xfa/0x1d0 lib/refcount.c:31 ... Call Trace: __refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:336 [inline] refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:351 [inline] ref_tracker_free+0x6af/0x7e0 lib/ref_tracker.c:236 netdev_tracker_free include/linux/netdevice.h:4302 [inline] netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4319 [inline] ax25_release+0x368/0x960 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1080 __sock_release net/socket.c:647 [inline] sock_close+0xbc/0x240 net/socket.c:1398 __fput+0x3e9/0x9f0 fs/file_table.c:464 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1580 [inline] __se_sys_close fs/open.c:1565 [inline] __x64_sys_close+0x7f/0x110 fs/open.c:1565 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f ... ================================================================ Considering the issues above and the comments left in the code that say: "check if we can remove this feature. It is broken."; "autobinding in this may or may not work"; - it is better to completely remove this feature than to fix it because it is broken and leads to various kinds of memory bugs. Now calling connect() without first binding socket will result in an error (-EINVAL). Userspace software that relies on the autobind feature might get broken. However, this feature does not seem widely used with this specific driver as it was not reliable at any point of time, and it is already broken anyway. E.g. ax25-tools and ax25-apps packages for popular distributions do not use the autobind feature for AF_AX25. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: syzbot+33841dc6aa3e1d86b78a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=33841dc6aa3e1d86b78a Signed-off-by: Murad Masimov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ax25: rcu protect dev->ax25_ptr

2025-01-06T23:57:01+00:00

syzbot found a lockdep issue [1]. We should remove ax25 RTNL dependency in ax25_setsockopt() This should also fix a variety of possible UAF in ax25. [1] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00762-g9268abe611b0 #0 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ syz.5.1818/12806 is trying to acquire lock: ffffffff8fcb3988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: ax25_setsockopt+0xa55/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:680 but task is already holding lock: ffff8880617ac258 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1618 [inline] ffff8880617ac258 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: ax25_setsockopt+0x209/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:574 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}: lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849 lock_sock_nested+0x48/0x100 net/core/sock.c:3642 lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1618 [inline] ax25_kill_by_device net/ax25/af_ax25.c:101 [inline] ax25_device_event+0x24d/0x580 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:146 notifier_call_chain+0x1a5/0x3f0 kernel/notifier.c:85 __dev_notify_flags+0x207/0x400 dev_change_flags+0xf0/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:9026 dev_ifsioc+0x7c8/0xe70 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:563 dev_ioctl+0x719/0x1340 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:820 sock_do_ioctl+0x240/0x460 net/socket.c:1234 sock_ioctl+0x626/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1339 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f -> #0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}: check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3161 [inline] check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3280 [inline] validate_chain+0x18ef/0x5920 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3904 __lock_acquire+0x1397/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5226 lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:585 [inline] __mutex_lock+0x1ac/0xee0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:735 ax25_setsockopt+0xa55/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:680 do_sock_setsockopt+0x3af/0x720 net/socket.c:2324 __sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2349 [inline] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2355 [inline] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2352 [inline] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x1ee/0x280 net/socket.c:2352 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(sk_lock-AF_AX25); lock(rtnl_mutex); lock(sk_lock-AF_AX25); lock(rtnl_mutex); *** DEADLOCK *** 1 lock held by syz.5.1818/12806: #0: ffff8880617ac258 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1618 [inline] #0: ffff8880617ac258 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: ax25_setsockopt+0x209/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:574 stack backtrace: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12806 Comm: syz.5.1818 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00762-g9268abe611b0 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_circular_bug+0x13a/0x1b0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2074 check_noncircular+0x36a/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2206 check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3161 [inline] check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3280 [inline] validate_chain+0x18ef/0x5920 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3904 __lock_acquire+0x1397/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5226 lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:585 [inline] __mutex_lock+0x1ac/0xee0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:735 ax25_setsockopt+0xa55/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:680 do_sock_setsockopt+0x3af/0x720 net/socket.c:2324 __sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2349 [inline] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2355 [inline] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2352 [inline] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x1ee/0x280 net/socket.c:2352 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f7b62385d29 Fixes: c433570458e4 ("ax25: fix a use-after-free in ax25_fillin_cb()") Reported-by: syzbot Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250103210514.87290-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2022-02-04T01:36:16+00:00

No conflicts. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ax25: fix reference count leaks of ax25_dev

2022-02-03T22:20:36+00:00

The previous commit d01ffb9eee4a ("ax25: add refcount in ax25_dev to avoid UAF bugs") introduces refcount into ax25_dev, but there are reference leak paths in ax25_ctl_ioctl(), ax25_fwd_ioctl(), ax25_rt_add(), ax25_rt_del() and ax25_rt_opt(). This patch uses ax25_dev_put() and adjusts the position of ax25_addr_ax25dev() to fix reference cout leaks of ax25_dev. Fixes: d01ffb9eee4a ("ax25: add refcount in ax25_dev to avoid UAF bugs") Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220203150811.42256-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ax25: add refcount in ax25_dev to avoid UAF bugs

2022-01-28T14:56:47+00:00

If we dereference ax25_dev after we call kfree(ax25_dev) in ax25_dev_device_down(), it will lead to concurrency UAF bugs. There are eight syscall functions suffer from UAF bugs, include ax25_bind(), ax25_release(), ax25_connect(), ax25_ioctl(), ax25_getname(), ax25_sendmsg(), ax25_getsockopt() and ax25_info_show(). One of the concurrency UAF can be shown as below: (USE) | (FREE) | ax25_device_event | ax25_dev_device_down ax25_bind | ... ... | kfree(ax25_dev) ax25_fillin_cb() | ... ax25_fillin_cb_from_dev() | ... | The root cause of UAF bugs is that kfree(ax25_dev) in ax25_dev_device_down() is not protected by any locks. When ax25_dev, which there are still pointers point to, is released, the concurrency UAF bug will happen. This patch introduces refcount into ax25_dev in order to guarantee that there are no pointers point to it when ax25_dev is released. Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ax25: remove route refcount

2022-01-27T13:53:27+00:00

Nothing takes the refcount since v4.9. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ax25: use skb_expand_head

2021-08-03T10:21:39+00:00

Use skb_expand_head() in ax25_transmit_buffer and ax25_rt_build_path. Unlike skb_realloc_headroom, new helper does not allocate a new skb if possible. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ax25: fix inconsistent lock state in ax25_destroy_timer

2019-06-16T21:22:37+00:00

Before thread in process context uses bh_lock_sock() we must disable bh. sysbot reported : WARNING: inconsistent lock state 5.2.0-rc3+ #32 Not tainted inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage. blkid/26581 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: 00000000e0da85ee (slock-AF_AX25){+.?.}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline] 00000000e0da85ee (slock-AF_AX25){+.?.}, at: ax25_destroy_timer+0x53/0xc0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:275 {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: lock_acquire+0x16f/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4303 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:142 [inline] _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline] ax25_rt_autobind+0x3ca/0x720 net/ax25/ax25_route.c:429 ax25_connect.cold+0x30/0xa4 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1221 __sys_connect+0x264/0x330 net/socket.c:1834 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1845 [inline] __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1842 [inline] __x64_sys_connect+0x73/0xb0 net/socket.c:1842 do_syscall_64+0xfd/0x680 arch/x86/entry/common.c:301 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe irq event stamp: 2272 hardirqs last enabled at (2272): [] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c hardirqs last disabled at (2271): [] trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x1a/0x1c softirqs last enabled at (1522): [] __do_softirq+0x654/0x94c kernel/softirq.c:320 softirqs last disabled at (2267): [] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:374 [inline] softirqs last disabled at (2267): [] irq_exit+0x180/0x1d0 kernel/softirq.c:414 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(slock-AF_AX25); lock(slock-AF_AX25); *** DEADLOCK *** 1 lock held by blkid/26581: #0: 0000000010fd154d ((&ax25->dtimer)){+.-.}, at: lockdep_copy_map include/linux/lockdep.h:175 [inline] #0: 0000000010fd154d ((&ax25->dtimer)){+.-.}, at: call_timer_fn+0xe0/0x720 kernel/time/timer.c:1312 stack backtrace: CPU: 1 PID: 26581 Comm: blkid Not tainted 5.2.0-rc3+ #32 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x172/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113 print_usage_bug.cold+0x393/0x4a2 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2935 valid_state kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2948 [inline] mark_lock_irq kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3138 [inline] mark_lock+0xd46/0x1370 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3513 mark_irqflags kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3391 [inline] __lock_acquire+0x159f/0x5490 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3745 lock_acquire+0x16f/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4303 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:142 [inline] _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline] ax25_destroy_timer+0x53/0xc0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:275 call_timer_fn+0x193/0x720 kernel/time/timer.c:1322 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1366 [inline] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1685 [inline] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1653 [inline] run_timer_softirq+0x66f/0x1740 kernel/time/timer.c:1698 __do_softirq+0x25c/0x94c kernel/softirq.c:293 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:374 [inline] irq_exit+0x180/0x1d0 kernel/softirq.c:414 exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:536 [inline] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x13b/0x550 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1068 apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:806 RIP: 0033:0x7f858d5c3232 Code: 8b 61 08 48 8b 84 24 d8 00 00 00 4c 89 44 24 28 48 8b ac 24 d0 00 00 00 4c 8b b4 24 e8 00 00 00 48 89 7c 24 68 48 89 4c 24 78 <48> 89 44 24 58 8b 84 24 e0 00 00 00 89 84 24 84 00 00 00 8b 84 24 RSP: 002b:00007ffcaf0cf5c0 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13 RAX: 00007f858d7d27a8 RBX: 00007f858d7d8820 RCX: 00007f858d3940d8 RDX: 00007ffcaf0cf798 RSI: 00000000f5e616f3 RDI: 00007f858d394fee RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00007ffcaf0cf780 R09: 00007f858d7db480 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000009691a75 R12: 0000000000000005 R13: 00000000f5e616f3 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007ffcaf0cf798 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: syzbot Signed-off-by: David S. Miller