kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/ovpn, branch v7.0.10

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 ...

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

ovpn: tcp - fix packet extraction from stream

2026-02-21T07:04:08+00:00

When processing TCP stream data in ovpn_tcp_recv, we receive large cloned skbs from __strp_rcv that may contain multiple coalesced packets. The current implementation has two bugs: 1. Header offset overflow: Using pskb_pull with large offsets on coalesced skbs causes skb->data - skb->head to exceed the u16 storage of skb->network_header. This causes skb_reset_network_header to fail on the inner decapsulated packet, resulting in packet drops. 2. Unaligned protocol headers: Extracting packets from arbitrary positions within the coalesced TCP stream provides no alignment guarantees for the packet data causing performance penalties on architectures without efficient unaligned access. Additionally, openvpn's 2-byte length prefix on TCP packets causes the subsequent 4-byte opcode and packet ID fields to be inherently misaligned. Fix both issues by allocating a new skb for each openvpn packet and using skb_copy_bits to extract only the packet content into the new buffer, skipping the 2-byte length prefix. Also, check the length before invoking the function that performs the allocation to avoid creating an invalid skb. If the packet has to be forwarded to userspace the 2-byte prefix can be pushed to the head safely, without misalignment. As a side effect, this approach also avoids the expensive linearization that pskb_pull triggers on cloned skbs with page fragments. In testing, this resulted in TCP throughput improvements of up to 74%. Fixes: 11851cbd60ea ("ovpn: implement TCP transport") Signed-off-by: Ralf Lici Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ovpn: tcp - don't deref NULL sk_socket member after tcp_close()

2026-02-17T10:40:36+00:00

When deleting a peer in case of keepalive expiration, the peer is removed from the OpenVPN hashtable and is temporary inserted in a "release list" for further processing. This happens in: ovpn_peer_keepalive_work() unlock_ovpn(release_list) This processing includes detaching from the socket being used to talk to this peer, by restoring its original proto and socket ops/callbacks. In case of TCP it may happen that, while the peer is sitting in the release list, userspace decides to close the socket. This will result in a concurrent execution of: tcp_close(sk) __tcp_close(sk) sock_orphan(sk) sk_set_socket(sk, NULL) The last function call will set sk->sk_socket to NULL. When the releasing routine is resumed, ovpn_tcp_socket_detach() will attempt to dereference sk->sk_socket to restore its original ops member. This operation will crash due to sk->sk_socket being NULL. Fix this race condition by testing-and-accessing sk->sk_socket atomically under sk->sk_callback_lock. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/176996279620.3109699.15382994681575380467@eldamar.lan/ Link: https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-net-next/issues/29 Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli Fixes: 11851cbd60ea ("ovpn: implement TCP transport") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260212213130.11497-1-antonio@openvpn.net Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge tag 'ovpn-net-20260212' of https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-net-next

2026-02-17T10:16:15+00:00

Antonio Quartulli says: ==================== This batch includes the following fixes: * set sk_user_data before installing callbacks, to avoid dropping early packets * fix use-after-free in ovpn_net_xmit when accessing shared skbs that got released * fix TX bytes stats by adding-up every positively processed GSO segment ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260212210340.11260-1-antonio@openvpn.net Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

ovpn: fix VPN TX bytes counting

2026-02-12T14:28:59+00:00

In ovpn_net_xmit, after GSO segmentation and segment processing, the first segment on the list is used to increment VPN TX statistics, which fails to account for any subsequent segments in the chain. Fix this by accumulating the length of every segment that successfully passes skb_share_check into a tx_bytes variable. This ensures the peer statistics accurately reflect the total data volume sent, regardless of whether the original packet was segmented. Fixes: 04ca14955f9a ("ovpn: store tunnel and transport statistics") Signed-off-by: Ralf Lici Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli

ovpn: fix possible use-after-free in ovpn_net_xmit

2026-02-12T14:28:58+00:00

When building the skb_list in ovpn_net_xmit, skb_share_check will free the original skb if it is shared. The current implementation continues to use the stale skb pointer for subsequent operations: - peer lookup, - skb_dst_drop (even though all segments produced by skb_gso_segment will have a dst attached), - ovpn_peer_stats_increment_tx. Fix this by moving the peer lookup and skb_dst_drop before segmentation so that the original skb is still valid when used. Return early if all segments fail skb_share_check and the list ends up empty. Also switch ovpn_peer_stats_increment_tx to use skb_list.next; the next patch fixes the stats logic. Fixes: 08857b5ec5d9 ("ovpn: implement basic TX path (UDP)") Signed-off-by: Ralf Lici Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli

ovpn: set sk_user_data before overriding callbacks

2026-02-12T14:28:56+00:00

During initialization, we override socket callbacks and set sk_user_data to an ovpn_socket instance. Currently, these two operations are decoupled: callbacks are overridden before sk_user_data is set. While existing callbacks perform safety checks for NULL or non-ovpn sk_user_data, this condition causes a "half-formed" state where valid packets arriving during attachment trigger error logs (e.g., "invoked on non ovpn socket"). Set sk_user_data before overriding the callbacks so that it can be accessed safely from them. Since we already check that the socket has no sk_user_data before setting it, this remains safe even if an interrupt accesses the socket after sk_user_data is set but before the callbacks are overridden. This also requires initializing all protocol-specific fields (such as tcp_tx_work and peer links) before calling ovpn_socket_attach, ensuring the ovpn_socket is fully formed before it becomes visible to any callback. Fixes: f6226ae7a0cd ("ovpn: introduce the ovpn_socket object") Signed-off-by: Ralf Lici Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli

ovpn: Replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

2026-02-05T04:41:38+00:00

This patch continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which has begun with the changes introducing new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag: commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq") commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag") The point of the refactoring is to eventually alter the default behavior of workqueues to become unbound by default so that their workload placement is optimized by the scheduler. Before that to happen after a careful review and conversion of each individual case, workqueue users must be converted to the better named new workqueues with no intended behaviour changes: system_wq -> system_percpu_wq system_unbound_wq -> system_dfl_wq This way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be removed in the future. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251224155006.114824-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski