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[PATCH net v2] pfcp: fix socket lifetime on netdevice registration failure

From: Xuanqiang Luo <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-24 05:53:09
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Xuanqiang Luo <redacted>

pfcp_newlink() creates the UDP socket before register_netdevice().
If registration fails after pfcp_dev_init() succeeds, the core calls
pfcp_dev_uninit(), which releases the socket and clears pfcp->sk.
The newlink error path then releases it again, causing a NULL pointer
dereference. This was observed with failslab fault injection:

  FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
  kobject: kobject_add_internal failed for pfcp0 (error: -12 parent: net)
  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in udp_tunnel_sock_release+0x1c/0x50
  Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000120 by task ip/1037
  Call trace:
   show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
   dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90
   print_report+0x468/0x5cc
   kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
   __asan_load8+0x7c/0xd0
   udp_tunnel_sock_release+0x1c/0x50
   pfcp_newlink+0x128/0x184
   rtnl_newlink+0x848/0xe44
   rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x468/0x514
   netlink_rcv_skb+0xc0/0x1f0
   rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x24
   netlink_unicast+0x4b8/0x558
   netlink_sendmsg+0x2b8/0x584
   ...

Return from pfcp_del_sock() if pfcp->sk is NULL.

Fixes: 76c8764ef36a5 ("pfcp: add PFCP module")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Xuanqiang Luo <redacted>
---
Changes:
v2:
  - Use a NULL check in pfcp_del_sock() as the minimal fix for net and
    stable. (Simon Horman.)

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260918123158.5631-1-xuanqiang.luo@linux.dev/ (local)

 drivers/net/pfcp.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/pfcp.c b/drivers/net/pfcp.c
index e1cca779d2ecc..3ecd43cafdf03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pfcp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pfcp.c
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ static int pfcp_encap_recv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 static void pfcp_del_sock(struct pfcp_dev *pfcp)
 {
+	if (!pfcp->sk)
+		return;
+
 	udp_tunnel_sock_release(pfcp->sk);
 	pfcp->sk = NULL;
 }
base-commit: 90c2e97ff8245092039ab7ab7492b34427412c9b
-- 
2.43.0
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