kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/netconsole.c, branch v7.1-rc5

netconsole: restore userdatum value on update_userdata() failure

2026-04-29T01:28:12+00:00

userdatum_value_store() updates udm->value first and only then calls update_userdata() to rebuild the on-the-wire payload. If update_userdata() fails (e.g. -ENOMEM from kmalloc), the function returns the error to userspace, but udm->value already holds the new string while the live nt->userdata buffer still reflects the old one. The next successful write to any sibling userdatum on the same target will call update_userdata() again, which walks every entry and packs the now-stale udm->value into the payload. The failed write is thus silently activated later, with no indication to userspace that the value it tried to set was rejected. Snapshot the previous value before overwriting udm->value and restore it if update_userdata() fails so the visible state and the active payload stay consistent. Fixes: eb83801af2dc ("netconsole: Dynamic allocation of userdata buffer") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-netconsole_ai_fixes-v2-4-59965f29d9cc@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netconsole: propagate device name truncation in dev_name_store()

2026-04-29T01:28:11+00:00

dev_name_store() calls strscpy(nt->np.dev_name, buf, IFNAMSIZ) without checking the return value. If userspace writes an interface name longer than IFNAMSIZ - 1, strscpy() silently truncates and returns -E2BIG, but the function ignores it and reports a fully successful write back to userspace. If a real interface happens to match the truncated name, netconsole will bind to the wrong device on the next enable, sending kernel logs and panic output to an unintended network segment with no indication to userspace that anything was rewritten. Reject writes whose length cannot fit in nt->np.dev_name up front: if (count >= IFNAMSIZ) return -ENAMETOOLONG; This is not a big deal of a problem, but, it is still the correct approach. Fixes: 0bcc1816188e57 ("[NET] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-netconsole_ai_fixes-v2-3-59965f29d9cc@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netconsole: avoid clobbering userdatum value on truncated write

2026-04-29T01:28:11+00:00

userdatum_value_store() bounds count by MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN (200) and then copies straight into udm->value, which is itself 200 bytes: if (count > MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN) return -EMSGSIZE; ... ret = strscpy(udm->value, buf, sizeof(udm->value)); if (ret < 0) goto out_unlock; If userspace writes exactly MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN bytes with no NUL within them, strscpy() copies 199 bytes plus a NUL into udm->value and returns -E2BIG. The function jumps to out_unlock and reports the error to userspace, but udm->value has already been overwritten with the truncated string and update_userdata() is skipped, so the corruption is not yet visible on the wire. The next successful write to any userdatum entry under the same target calls update_userdata(), which packs udm->value into the active netconsole payload. From that point on, every netconsole message carries the silently truncated value, and userspace has no indication that a previous, error-returning write left state behind. Tighten the entry check from "count > MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN" to "count >= MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN". With count strictly less than sizeof(udm->value), strscpy() can no longer return -E2BIG here, so the corrupting truncation path is removed entirely. Fixes: 8a6d5fec6c7f ("net: netconsole: add a userdata config_group member to netconsole_target") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-netconsole_ai_fixes-v2-2-59965f29d9cc@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netconsole: return count instead of strnlen(buf, count) from store callbacks

2026-04-29T01:28:11+00:00

Several configfs store callbacks in netconsole end with: ret = strnlen(buf, count); This under-reports the number of bytes consumed when the input contains an embedded NUL within count, telling the VFS that fewer bytes were written than userspace actually handed in. A conformant partial-write loop would then retry the trailing bytes against a callback that has already accepted them. Every other configfs driver in the tree returns count directly from its store callbacks once parsing has succeeded, including drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c, drivers/gpio/gpio-sim.c, drivers/most/configfs.c, drivers/block/null_blk/main.c, drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c, and the rest of the configfs users. netconsole was the outlier (along with drivers/infiniband/core/cma_configfs.c, which has the same latent issue). Align netconsole with the rest of the configfs ecosystem: return count once the parser/validator has accepted the input. The numeric and boolean parsers (kstrtobool, kstrtou16, mac_pton, netpoll_parse_ip_addr) have already validated the meaningful prefix; any trailing bytes are padding and should simply be reported as consumed. Fixes: 0bcc1816188e ("[NET] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs") Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-netconsole_ai_fixes-v2-1-59965f29d9cc@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netconsole: avoid out-of-bounds access on empty string in trim_newline()

2026-04-23T10:45:02+00:00

trim_newline() unconditionally dereferences s[len - 1] after computing len = strnlen(s, maxlen). When the string is empty, len is 0 and the expression underflows to s[(size_t)-1], reading (and potentially writing) one byte before the buffer. The two callers feed trim_newline() with the result of strscpy() from configfs store callbacks (dev_name_store, userdatum_value_store). configfs guarantees count >= 1 reaches the callback, but the byte itself can be NUL: a userspace write(fd, "\0", 1) leaves the destination empty after strscpy() and triggers the underflow. The OOB write only fires if the adjacent byte happens to be '\n', so this is not a security issue, but the access is undefined behaviour either way. This pattern is commonly flagged by LLM-based code reviewers. While it is not a security fix, the underlying access is undefined behaviour and the change is small and self-contained, so it is a reasonable candidate for the stable trees. Guard the dereference on a non-zero length. Fixes: ae001dc67907 ("net: netconsole: move newline trimming to function") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420-netcons_trim_newline-v1-1-dc35889aeedf@debian.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

netconsole: fix sysdata_release_enabled_show checking wrong flag

2026-03-04T01:23:50+00:00

sysdata_release_enabled_show() checks SYSDATA_TASKNAME instead of SYSDATA_RELEASE, causing the configfs release_enabled attribute to reflect the taskname feature state rather than the release feature state. This is a copy-paste error from the adjacent sysdata_taskname_enabled_show() function. The corresponding _store function already uses the correct SYSDATA_RELEASE flag. Fixes: 343f90227070 ("netconsole: implement configfs for release_enabled") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302-sysdata_release_fix-v1-1-e5090f677c7c@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-02-26T16:00:13+00:00

Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni: "Including fixes from IPsec, Bluetooth and netfilter Current release - regressions: - wifi: fix dev_alloc_name() return value check - rds: fix recursive lock in rds_tcp_conn_slots_available Current release - new code bugs: - vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once Previous releases - regressions: - core: - do not pass flow_id to set_rps_cpu() - consume xmit errors of GSO frames - netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated - netfilter: h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() - tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 - udplite: fix null-ptr-deref in __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb(). - wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential kernel oops when probe fails - phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid AB-BA deadlock - eth: - bnxt_en: fix deleting of Ntuple filters - wan: farsync: fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets - xscale: check for PTP support properly Previous releases - always broken: - tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() - kcm: fix zero-frag skb in frag_list on partial sendmsg error - xfrm: - fix race condition in espintcp_close() - always flush state and policy upon NETDEV_UNREGISTER event - bluetooth: - purge error queues in socket destructors - fix response to L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_REQ - eth: - mlx5: - fix circular locking dependency in dump - fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query - gve: fix incorrect buffer cleanup for QPL - team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave - usb: validate USB endpoints" * tag 'net-7.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (72 commits) netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() dpaa2-switch: validate num_ifs to prevent out-of-bounds write net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctl vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once selftests/vsock: change tests to respect write-once child ns mode net/mlx5e: Fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query net/mlx5: Fix missing devlink lock in SRIOV enable error path net/mlx5: E-switch, Clear legacy flag when moving to switchdev net/mlx5: LAG, disable MPESW in lag_disable_change() net/mlx5: DR, Fix circular locking dependency in dump selftests: team: Add a reference count leak test team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave net: mana: Fix double destroy_workqueue on service rescan PCI path MAINTAINERS: Update maintainer entry for QUALCOMM ETHQOS ETHERNET DRIVER dpll: zl3073x: Remove redundant cleanup in devm_dpll_init() selftests/net: packetdrill: Verify acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 tcp: re-enable acceptance of FIN packets when RWIN is 0 vsock: Use container_of() to get net namespace in sysctl handlers net: usb: kaweth: validate USB endpoints ...

netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated

2026-02-24T09:46:29+00:00

msg passed to netconsole from the console subsystem is not guaranteed to be nul-terminated. Before recent commit 7eab73b18630 ("netconsole: convert to NBCON console infrastructure") the message would be placed in printk_shared_pbufs, a static global buffer, so KASAN had harder time catching OOB accesses. Now we see: printk: console [netcon_ext0] enabled BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in string+0x1f7/0x240 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88813b6d4c00 by task pr/netcon_ext0/594 CPU: 65 UID: 0 PID: 594 Comm: pr/netcon_ext0 Not tainted 6.19.0-11754-g4246fd6547c9 Call Trace: kasan_report+0xe4/0x120 string+0x1f7/0x240 vsnprintf+0x655/0xba0 scnprintf+0xba/0x120 netconsole_write+0x3fe/0xa10 nbcon_emit_next_record+0x46e/0x860 nbcon_kthread_func+0x623/0x750 Allocated by task 1: nbcon_alloc+0x1ea/0x450 register_console+0x26b/0xe10 init_netconsole+0xbb0/0xda0 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813b6d4000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 3072-byte region [ffff88813b6d4000, ffff88813b6d4c00) Fixes: c62c0a17f9b7 ("netconsole: Append kernel version to message") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219195021.2099699-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

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