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authorAntonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>2026-07-28 13:48:51 +0200
committerAntonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>2026-07-30 11:28:30 +0200
commit3f012bdbabe211ccbc0c50ea5a1dbc60f8af1532 (patch)
treecdc8e1a6535994e65afd22323f5bd3a13b4fe5ad
parent59aed1eb60d70678a53acccb0cb337a26ce6680e (diff)
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ovpn: zero-initialize sockaddr before learning a floated endpoint
ovpn_peer_endpoints_update() builds the new remote endpoint in an on-stack struct sockaddr_storage that is left uninitialized. For IPv4 only sin_family/sin_addr/sin_port are written, leaving the 8-byte sin_zero padding as stack garbage (for IPv6, sin6_flowinfo is left uninitialized likewise). ovpn_peer_reset_sockaddr() -> ovpn_bind_from_sockaddr() then memcpy()s sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)/sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6) bytes - padding included - into bind->remote. That buffer is later hashed with jhash() over the same length to place the peer in the by_transp_addr table, so the garbage padding lands the floated peer in an essentially random bucket. Lockless lookups in ovpn_peer_get_by_transp_addr() build their key from a zero-initialized sockaddr_storage, compute a different bucket and fail to find the peer. This is also a plain use of uninitialized stack memory in jhash(). Build the floated endpoint with a designated initializer so the padding (sin_zero for IPv4, sin6_flowinfo for IPv6) is zeroed as part of the assignment. This keeps the padding out of the by_transp_addr hash key without memset-ing the whole sockaddr_storage on every received packet. Fixes: f0281c1d3732 ("ovpn: add support for updating local or remote UDP endpoint") Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c31
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
index a330892e82bf..33fb0a75e600 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
@@ -222,9 +222,16 @@ void ovpn_peer_endpoints_update(struct ovpn_peer *peer, struct sk_buff *skb)
*/
local_ip = &ip_hdr(skb)->daddr;
sa = (struct sockaddr_in *)&ss;
- sa->sin_family = AF_INET;
- sa->sin_addr.s_addr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
- sa->sin_port = udp_hdr(skb)->source;
+ /* use a designated initializer so the sin_zero padding
+ * is zeroed (it ends up in the by_transp_addr hash key)
+ * without memset-ing the whole sockaddr_storage on the
+ * RX fast path
+ */
+ *sa = (struct sockaddr_in) {
+ .sin_family = AF_INET,
+ .sin_addr.s_addr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr,
+ .sin_port = udp_hdr(skb)->source,
+ };
salen = sizeof(*sa);
reset_cache = true;
break;
@@ -250,11 +257,19 @@ void ovpn_peer_endpoints_update(struct ovpn_peer *peer, struct sk_buff *skb)
*/
local_ip = &ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr;
sa6 = (struct sockaddr_in6 *)&ss;
- sa6->sin6_family = AF_INET6;
- sa6->sin6_addr = ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr;
- sa6->sin6_port = udp_hdr(skb)->source;
- sa6->sin6_scope_id = ipv6_iface_scope_id(&ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr,
- skb->skb_iif);
+ /* use a designated initializer so the sin6_flowinfo
+ * padding is zeroed (it ends up in the by_transp_addr
+ * hash key) without memset-ing the whole
+ * sockaddr_storage on the RX fast path
+ */
+ *sa6 = (struct sockaddr_in6) {
+ .sin6_family = AF_INET6,
+ .sin6_addr = ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr,
+ .sin6_port = udp_hdr(skb)->source,
+ .sin6_scope_id =
+ ipv6_iface_scope_id(&ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr,
+ skb->skb_iif),
+ };
salen = sizeof(*sa6);
reset_cache = true;
break;