kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/ppp, branch v5.15.219

pppoe: reload header pointer after dev_hard_header()

2026-08-19T15:14:04+00:00

commit e9c238f6fe42fb1b4dba3a578277de32cb487937 upstream. pppoe_sendmsg() saves a pointer to the PPPoE header before calling dev_hard_header(). Device header callbacks are allowed to reallocate the skb head, invalidating pointers into it. This can happen when a send is blocked in copy_from_user() while the first non-Ethernet port is added to an empty team device. The team's delegated GRE header callback then expands the skb head. PPPoE subsequently writes six bytes through the stale pointer into the freed head. Reload the PPPoE header through the skb's network-header offset after device header creation. pskb_expand_head() updates that offset when it relocates the head. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260722093814.3017176-1-manizada@pm.me Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ppp: defer channel free to an RCU grace period to fix pppol2tp RX UAF

2026-08-19T15:13:53+00:00

[ Upstream commit ec4215683e47424c9c4762fd3c60f552a3119142 ] pppol2tp_recv() runs in the L2TP UDP-encap softirq RX path: l2tp_udp_encap_recv() -> l2tp_recv_common() -> pppol2tp_recv() -> ppp_input(&po->chan) It runs under rcu_read_lock() holding only an l2tp_session reference and takes NO reference on the internal PPP channel (struct channel, chan->ppp) that ppp_input() dereferences. The pppox socket is SOCK_RCU_FREE, so 'po' and the embedded ppp_channel are RCU-safe. But the internal struct channel is a separate allocation that ppp_release_channel() frees with a plain kfree(): close(data socket) -> pppol2tp_release() -> pppox_unbind_sock() -> ppp_unregister_channel() -> ppp_release_channel() -> kfree(pch) For a channel that is bound (PPPIOCGCHAN) but not attached to a ppp unit (no PPPIOCCONNECT, pch->ppp == NULL) and not bridged, teardown skips both ppp_disconnect_channel()'s synchronize_net() and ppp_unbridge_channels()'s synchronize_rcu(), so the kfree() has no grace period. rcu_read_lock() in pppol2tp_recv() does not protect against a plain kfree(), so an in-flight ppp_input() on one CPU can dereference the channel just freed by close() on another CPU. The bug is reachable by an unprivileged user. Defer the channel free to an RCU callback via call_rcu() so the grace period fences any in-flight ppp_input(). The disconnect and unbridge teardown paths already fence with synchronize_net()/synchronize_rcu(); call_rcu() does the same here without stalling the close() path. Fixes: ee40fb2e1eb5 ("l2tp: protect sock pointer of struct pppol2tp_session with RCU") Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei Reviewed-by: Qingfang Deng Link: https://patch.msgid.link/E793FCF2-58DE-4387-A983-C7B4BC3158BD@doyensec.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers

2026-06-19T11:33:46+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

2026-06-01T15:35:39+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

2026-06-01T15:35:29+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

2025-09-09T16:50:20+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 race conditions in ppp_fill_forward_path

2025-08-28T14:24:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0417adf367a0af11adf7ace849af4638cfb573f7 ] ppp_fill_forward_path() has two race conditions: 1. The ppp->channels list can change between list_empty() and list_first_entry(), as ppp_lock() is not held. If the only channel is deleted in ppp_disconnect_channel(), list_first_entry() may access an empty head or a freed entry, and trigger a panic. 2. pch->chan can be NULL. When ppp_unregister_channel() is called, pch->chan is set to NULL before pch is removed from ppp->channels. Fix these by using a lockless RCU approach: - Use list_first_or_null_rcu() to safely test and access the first list entry. - Convert list modifications on ppp->channels to their RCU variants and add synchronize_net() after removal. - Check for a NULL pch->chan before dereferencing it. Fixes: f6efc675c9dd ("net: ppp: resolve forwarding path for bridge pppoe devices") Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250814012559.3705-2-dqfext@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

pptp: fix pptp_xmit() error path

2025-08-28T14:24:14+00:00

[ Upstream commit ae633388cae349886f1a3cfb27aa092854b24c1b ] I accidentally added a bug in pptp_xmit() that syzbot caught for us. Only call ip_rt_put() if a route has been allocated. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffffdb PGD df3b067 P4D df3b067 PUD df3d067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6346 Comm: syz.0.336 Not tainted 6.16.0-next-20250804-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025 RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_add_return arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:85 [inline] RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_sub_return_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:846 [inline] RIP: 0010:atomic_sub_return_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:327 [inline] RIP: 0010:__rcuref_put include/linux/rcuref.h:109 [inline] RIP: 0010:rcuref_put+0x172/0x210 include/linux/rcuref.h:173 Call Trace: dst_release+0x24/0x1b0 net/core/dst.c:167 ip_rt_put include/net/route.h:285 [inline] pptp_xmit+0x14b/0x1a90 drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c:267 __ppp_channel_push+0xf2/0x1c0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2166 ppp_channel_push+0x123/0x660 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2198 ppp_write+0x2b0/0x400 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:544 vfs_write+0x27b/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:684 ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Fixes: de9c4861fb42 ("pptp: ensure minimal skb length in pptp_xmit()") Reported-by: syzbot+27d7cfbc93457e472e00@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/689095a5.050a0220.1fc43d.0009.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250807142146.2877060-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

pptp: ensure minimal skb length in pptp_xmit()

2025-08-28T14:24:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit de9c4861fb42f0cd72da844c3c34f692d5895b7b ] Commit aabc6596ffb3 ("net: ppp: Add bound checking for skb data on ppp_sync_txmung") fixed ppp_sync_txmunge() We need a similar fix in pptp_xmit(), otherwise we might read uninit data as reported by syzbot. BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pptp_xmit+0xc34/0x2720 drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c:193 pptp_xmit+0xc34/0x2720 drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c:193 ppp_channel_bridge_input drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2290 [inline] ppp_input+0x1d6/0xe60 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2314 pppoe_rcv_core+0x1e8/0x760 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:379 sk_backlog_rcv+0x142/0x420 include/net/sock.h:1148 __release_sock+0x1d3/0x330 net/core/sock.c:3213 release_sock+0x6b/0x270 net/core/sock.c:3767 pppoe_sendmsg+0x15d/0xcb0 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c:904 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0x330/0x3d0 net/socket.c:727 ____sys_sendmsg+0x893/0xd80 net/socket.c:2566 ___sys_sendmsg+0x271/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2620 __sys_sendmmsg+0x2d9/0x7c0 net/socket.c:2709 Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: syzbot+afad90ffc8645324afe5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/68887d86.a00a0220.b12ec.00cd.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Dawid Osuchowski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250729080207.1863408-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: ppp: Add bound checking for skb data on ppp_sync_txmung

2025-05-02T05:43:52+00:00

[ Upstream commit aabc6596ffb377c4c9c8f335124b92ea282c9821 ] Ensure we have enough data in linear buffer from skb before accessing initial bytes. This prevents potential out-of-bounds accesses when processing short packets. When ppp_sync_txmung receives an incoming package with an empty payload: (remote) gef➤ p *(struct pppoe_hdr *) (skb->head + skb->network_header) $18 = { type = 0x1, ver = 0x1, code = 0x0, sid = 0x2, length = 0x0, tag = 0xffff8880371cdb96 } from the skb struct (trimmed) tail = 0x16, end = 0x140, head = 0xffff88803346f400 "4", data = 0xffff88803346f416 ":\377", truesize = 0x380, len = 0x0, data_len = 0x0, mac_len = 0xe, hdr_len = 0x0, it is not safe to access data[2]. Reported-by: syzbot+29fc8991b0ecb186cf40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=29fc8991b0ecb186cf40 Tested-by: syzbot+29fc8991b0ecb186cf40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lecomte Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250408-bound-checking-ppp_txmung-v2-1-94bb6e1b92d0@arnaud-lcm.com [pabeni@redhat.com: fixed subj typo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin