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| author | Ralf Lici <ralf@mandelbit.com> | 2026-01-30 20:32:49 +0300 |
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| committer | Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net> | 2026-02-12 17:28:58 +0300 |
| commit | a5ec7baa44ea3a1d6aa0ca31c0ad82edf9affe41 (patch) | |
| tree | 99fabe593d093904da2212246852dc71b5199bed | |
| parent | 93686c472eb7b09a51b97a096449e7092fefcd1f (diff) | |
| download | linux-a5ec7baa44ea3a1d6aa0ca31c0ad82edf9affe41.tar.xz | |
ovpn: fix possible use-after-free in ovpn_net_xmit
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 <ralf@mandelbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ovpn/io.c | 52 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/io.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/io.c index 3e9e7f8444b3..f70c58b10599 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ovpn/io.c +++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/io.c @@ -365,7 +365,27 @@ netdev_tx_t ovpn_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) /* verify IP header size in network packet */ proto = ovpn_ip_check_protocol(skb); if (unlikely(!proto || skb->protocol != proto)) - goto drop; + goto drop_no_peer; + + /* retrieve peer serving the destination IP of this packet */ + peer = ovpn_peer_get_by_dst(ovpn, skb); + if (unlikely(!peer)) { + switch (skb->protocol) { + case htons(ETH_P_IP): + net_dbg_ratelimited("%s: no peer to send data to dst=%pI4\n", + netdev_name(ovpn->dev), + &ip_hdr(skb)->daddr); + break; + case htons(ETH_P_IPV6): + net_dbg_ratelimited("%s: no peer to send data to dst=%pI6c\n", + netdev_name(ovpn->dev), + &ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr); + break; + } + goto drop_no_peer; + } + /* dst was needed for peer selection - it can now be dropped */ + skb_dst_drop(skb); if (skb_is_gso(skb)) { segments = skb_gso_segment(skb, 0); @@ -396,34 +416,24 @@ netdev_tx_t ovpn_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) __skb_queue_tail(&skb_list, curr); } - skb_list.prev->next = NULL; - /* retrieve peer serving the destination IP of this packet */ - peer = ovpn_peer_get_by_dst(ovpn, skb); - if (unlikely(!peer)) { - switch (skb->protocol) { - case htons(ETH_P_IP): - net_dbg_ratelimited("%s: no peer to send data to dst=%pI4\n", - netdev_name(ovpn->dev), - &ip_hdr(skb)->daddr); - break; - case htons(ETH_P_IPV6): - net_dbg_ratelimited("%s: no peer to send data to dst=%pI6c\n", - netdev_name(ovpn->dev), - &ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr); - break; - } - goto drop; + /* no segments survived: don't jump to 'drop' because we already + * incremented the counter for each failure in the loop + */ + if (unlikely(skb_queue_empty(&skb_list))) { + ovpn_peer_put(peer); + return NETDEV_TX_OK; } - /* dst was needed for peer selection - it can now be dropped */ - skb_dst_drop(skb); + skb_list.prev->next = NULL; - ovpn_peer_stats_increment_tx(&peer->vpn_stats, skb->len); + ovpn_peer_stats_increment_tx(&peer->vpn_stats, skb_list.next->len); ovpn_send(ovpn, skb_list.next, peer); return NETDEV_TX_OK; drop: + ovpn_peer_put(peer); +drop_no_peer: dev_dstats_tx_dropped(ovpn->dev); skb_tx_error(skb); kfree_skb_list(skb); |
