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| author | Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net> | 2026-07-28 13:48:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net> | 2026-07-30 11:28:30 +0200 |
| commit | 3f012bdbabe211ccbc0c50ea5a1dbc60f8af1532 (patch) | |
| tree | cdc8e1a6535994e65afd22323f5bd3a13b4fe5ad | |
| parent | 59aed1eb60d70678a53acccb0cb337a26ce6680e (diff) | |
| download | linux-3f012bdbabe211ccbc0c50ea5a1dbc60f8af1532.tar.gz linux-3f012bdbabe211ccbc0c50ea5a1dbc60f8af1532.zip | |
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.c | 31 |
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; |
