kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c, branch v5.10.264

use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers

2026-06-19T11:21:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit de4eda9de2d957ef2d6a8365a01e26a435e958cb ] READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are "data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as "we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly the wrong way. Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder to misinterpret... Signed-off-by: Al Viro Stable-dep-of: a4f0b001782b ("vsock/virtio: reset connection on receiving queue overflow") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

pppoe: drop PFC frames

2026-06-01T15:29:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit cc1ff87bce1ccd38410ab10960f576dcd17db679 ] RFC 2516 Section 7 states that Protocol Field Compression (PFC) is NOT RECOMMENDED for PPPoE. In practice, pppd does not support negotiating PFC for PPPoE sessions, and the current PPPoE driver assumes an uncompressed (2-byte) protocol field. However, the generic PPP layer function ppp_input() is not aware of the negotiation result, and still accepts PFC frames. If a peer with a broken implementation or an attacker sends a frame with a compressed (1-byte) protocol field, the subsequent PPP payload is shifted by one byte. This causes the network header to be 4-byte misaligned, which may trigger unaligned access exceptions on some architectures. To reduce the attack surface, drop PPPoE PFC frames. Introduce ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto() helper function to be used in both ppp_generic.c and pppoe.c to avoid open-coding. Fixes: 7fb1b8ca8fa1 ("ppp: Move PFC decompression to PPP generic layer") Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415022456.141758-2-qingfang.deng@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ppp: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in target netns for unattached ioctls

2026-06-01T15:29:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2bb6379416fd19f44c3423a00bfd8626259f6067 ] /dev/ppp open is currently authorized against file->f_cred->user_ns, while unattached administrative ioctls operate on current->nsproxy->net_ns. As a result, a local unprivileged user can create a new user namespace with CLONE_NEWUSER, gain CAP_NET_ADMIN only in that new user namespace, and still issue PPPIOCNEWUNIT, PPPIOCATTACH, or PPPIOCATTCHAN against an inherited network namespace. Require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the user namespace that owns the target network namespace before handling unattached PPP administrative ioctls. This preserves normal pppd operation in the network namespace it is actually privileged in, while rejecting the userns-only inherited-netns case. Fixes: 273ec51dd7ce ("net: ppp_generic - introduce net-namespace functionality v2") Signed-off-by: Taegu Ha Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409071117.4354-1-hataegu0826@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb

2025-09-09T16:45:20+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4844123fe0b853a4982c02666cb3fd863d701d50 ] If alloc_skb() fails in pad_compress_skb(), it returns NULL without releasing the old skb. The caller does: skb = pad_compress_skb(ppp, skb); if (!skb) goto drop; drop: kfree_skb(skb); When pad_compress_skb() returns NULL, the reference to the old skb is lost and kfree_skb(skb) ends up doing nothing, leading to a memory leak. Align pad_compress_skb() semantics with realloc(): only free the old skb if allocation and compression succeed. At the call site, use the new_skb variable so the original skb is not lost when pad_compress_skb() fails. Fixes: b3f9b92a6ec1 ("[PPP]: add PPP MPPE encryption module") Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Yue Haibing Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250903100726.269839-1-dqfext@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ppp: Fix KMSAN uninit-value warning with bpf

2025-03-13T11:47:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4c2d14c40a68678d885eab4008a0129646805bae ] Syzbot caught an "KMSAN: uninit-value" warning [1], which is caused by the ppp driver not initializing a 2-byte header when using socket filter. The following code can generate a PPP filter BPF program: ''' struct bpf_program fp; pcap_t *handle; handle = pcap_open_dead(DLT_PPP_PPPD, 65535); pcap_compile(handle, &fp, "ip and outbound", 0, 0); bpf_dump(&fp, 1); ''' Its output is: ''' (000) ldh [2] (001) jeq #0x21 jt 2 jf 5 (002) ldb [0] (003) jeq #0x1 jt 4 jf 5 (004) ret #65535 (005) ret #0 ''' Wen can find similar code at the following link: https://github.com/ppp-project/ppp/blob/master/pppd/options.c#L1680 The maintainer of this code repository is also the original maintainer of the ppp driver. As you can see the BPF program skips 2 bytes of data and then reads the 'Protocol' field to determine if it's an IP packet. Then it read the first byte of the first 2 bytes to determine the direction. The issue is that only the first byte indicating direction is initialized in current ppp driver code while the second byte is not initialized. For normal BPF programs generated by libpcap, uninitialized data won't be used, so it's not a problem. However, for carefully crafted BPF programs, such as those generated by syzkaller [2], which start reading from offset 0, the uninitialized data will be used and caught by KMSAN. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=853242d9c9917165d791 [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=ReproC&x=11994913980000 Cc: Paul Mackerras Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: syzbot+853242d9c9917165d791@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/000000000000dea025060d6bc3bc@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250228141408.393864-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ppp: reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed packets

2024-07-18T11:05:46+00:00

[ Upstream commit f2aeb7306a898e1cbd03963d376f4b6656ca2b55 ] Since 'ppp_async_encode()' assumes valid LCP packets (with code from 1 to 7 inclusive), add 'ppp_check_packet()' to ensure that LCP packet has an actual body beyond PPP_LCP header bytes, and reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed data otherwise. Reported-by: syzbot+ec0723ba9605678b14bf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ec0723ba9605678b14bf Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ppp: associate skb with a device at tx

2023-01-14T09:16:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9f225444467b98579cf28d94f4ad053460dfdb84 ] Syzkaller triggered flow dissector warning with the following: r0 = openat$ppp(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000000), 0xc0802, 0x0) ioctl$PPPIOCNEWUNIT(r0, 0xc004743e, &(0x7f00000000c0)) ioctl$PPPIOCSACTIVE(r0, 0x40107446, &(0x7f0000000240)={0x2, &(0x7f0000000180)=[{0x20, 0x0, 0x0, 0xfffff034}, {0x6}]}) pwritev(r0, &(0x7f0000000040)=[{&(0x7f0000000140)='\x00!', 0x2}], 0x1, 0x0, 0x0) [ 9.485814] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 329 at net/core/flow_dissector.c:1016 __skb_flow_dissect+0x1ee0/0x1fa0 [ 9.485929] skb_get_poff+0x53/0xa0 [ 9.485937] bpf_skb_get_pay_offset+0xe/0x20 [ 9.485944] ? ppp_send_frame+0xc2/0x5b0 [ 9.485949] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x40/0x60 [ 9.485958] ? __ppp_xmit_process+0x7a/0xe0 [ 9.485968] ? ppp_xmit_process+0x5b/0xb0 [ 9.485974] ? ppp_write+0x12a/0x190 [ 9.485981] ? do_iter_write+0x18e/0x2d0 [ 9.485987] ? __import_iovec+0x30/0x130 [ 9.485997] ? do_pwritev+0x1b6/0x240 [ 9.486016] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x47/0x50 [ 9.486023] ? __x64_sys_pwritev+0x24/0x30 [ 9.486026] ? do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80 [ 9.486031] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Flow dissector tries to find skb net namespace either via device or via socket. Neigher is set in ppp_send_frame, so let's manually use ppp->dev. Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: syzbot+41cab52ab62ee99ed24a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ppp: ensure minimum packet size in ppp_write()

2022-01-27T09:54:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit 44073187990d5629804ce0627525f6ea5cfef171 ] It seems pretty clear ppp layer assumed user space would always be kind to provide enough data in their write() to a ppp device. This patch makes sure user provides at least 2 bytes. It adds PPP_PROTO_LEN macro that could replace in net-next many occurrences of hard-coded 2 value. I replaced only one occurrence to ease backports to stable kernels. The bug manifests in the following report: BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ppp_send_frame+0x28d/0x27c0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:1740 ppp_send_frame+0x28d/0x27c0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:1740 __ppp_xmit_process+0x23e/0x4b0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:1640 ppp_xmit_process+0x1fe/0x480 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:1661 ppp_write+0x5cb/0x5e0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:513 do_iter_write+0xb0c/0x1500 fs/read_write.c:853 vfs_writev fs/read_write.c:924 [inline] do_writev+0x645/0xe00 fs/read_write.c:967 __do_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1040 [inline] __se_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1037 [inline] __x64_sys_writev+0xe5/0x120 fs/read_write.c:1037 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Uninit was created at: slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:524 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3251 [inline] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xe0c/0x1510 mm/slub.c:4974 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:354 [inline] __alloc_skb+0x545/0xf90 net/core/skbuff.c:426 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline] ppp_write+0x11d/0x5e0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:501 do_iter_write+0xb0c/0x1500 fs/read_write.c:853 vfs_writev fs/read_write.c:924 [inline] do_writev+0x645/0xe00 fs/read_write.c:967 __do_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1040 [inline] __se_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1037 [inline] __x64_sys_writev+0xe5/0x120 fs/read_write.c:1037 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: syzbot Acked-by: Guillaume Nault Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ppp: Fix generating ifname when empty IFLA_IFNAME is specified

2021-08-18T06:59:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2459dcb96bcba94c08d6861f8a050185ff301672 ] IFLA_IFNAME is nul-term string which means that IFLA_IFNAME buffer can be larger than length of string which contains. Function __rtnl_newlink() generates new own ifname if either IFLA_IFNAME was not specified at all or userspace passed empty nul-term string. It is expected that if userspace does not specify ifname for new ppp netdev then kernel generates one in format "ppp" where id matches to the ppp unit id which can be later obtained by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. And it works in this way if IFLA_IFNAME is not specified at all. But it does not work when IFLA_IFNAME is specified with empty string. So fix this logic also for empty IFLA_IFNAME in ppp_nl_newlink() function and correctly generates ifname based on ppp unit identifier if userspace did not provided preferred ifname. Without this patch when IFLA_IFNAME was specified with empty string then kernel created a new ppp interface in format "ppp" but id did not match ppp unit id returned by PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. In this case id was some number generated by __rtnl_newlink() function. Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár Fixes: bb8082f69138 ("ppp: build ifname using unit identifier for rtnl based devices") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ppp: Fix generating ppp unit id when ifname is not specified

2021-08-15T12:00:26+00:00

commit 3125f26c514826077f2a4490b75e9b1c7a644c42 upstream. When registering new ppp interface via PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl then kernel has to choose interface name as this ioctl API does not support specifying it. Kernel in this case register new interface with name "ppp" where is the ppp unit id, which can be obtained via PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl. This applies also in the case when registering new ppp interface via rtnl without supplying IFLA_IFNAME. PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl allows to specify own ppp unit id which will kernel assign to ppp interface, in case this ppp id is not already used by other ppp interface. In case user does not specify ppp unit id then kernel choose the first free ppp unit id. This applies also for case when creating ppp interface via rtnl method as it does not provide a way for specifying own ppp unit id. If some network interface (does not have to be ppp) has name "ppp" with this first free ppp id then PPPIOCNEWUNIT ioctl or rtnl call fails. And registering new ppp interface is not possible anymore, until interface which holds conflicting name is renamed. Or when using rtnl method with custom interface name in IFLA_IFNAME. As list of allocated / used ppp unit ids is not possible to retrieve from kernel to userspace, userspace has no idea what happens nor which interface is doing this conflict. So change the algorithm how ppp unit id is generated. And choose the first number which is not neither used as ppp unit id nor in some network interface with pattern "ppp". This issue can be simply reproduced by following pppd call when there is no ppp interface registered and also no interface with name pattern "ppp": pppd ifname ppp1 +ipv6 noip noauth nolock local nodetach pty "pppd +ipv6 noip noauth nolock local nodetach notty" Or by creating the one ppp interface (which gets assigned ppp unit id 0), renaming it to "ppp1" and then trying to create a new ppp interface (which will always fails as next free ppp unit id is 1, but network interface with name "ppp1" exists). This patch fixes above described issue by generating new and new ppp unit id until some non-conflicting id with network interfaces is generated. Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman