[PATCH net v4 1/5] amt: fix use-after-free when a Membership Update re-arms a freed tunnel
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From: Omar Ramadan <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-13 17:54:15
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Subsystem:
amt (automatic multicast tunneling), networking drivers, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Taehee Yoo, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Revision v4 of 3 in this series.
Revisions (3)
- v3 [diff vs current]
- v4 current
- v4
amt_update_handler() refreshes a relay tunnel's garbage-collection timer
with mod_delayed_work(&tunnel->gc_wq, ...) on a tunnel found by a lockless
list_for_each_entry_rcu() walk, holding only rcu_read_lock(). Nothing
serialises this against amt_tunnel_expire(), which runs from that same
gc_wq: once expire has taken amt->lock, done list_del_rcu() and queued
kfree_rcu(), a concurrent Update that already cached the tunnel pointer
re-arms gc_wq on an object that is about to be freed. After the grace
period the delayed_work timer is left armed in freed memory, so it fires
into a use-after-free (and double-list_del_rcu/nr_tunnels underflow on the
way).
Make amt_tunnel_expire() the only context that frees a tunnel on the
timeout path and let it re-arm itself: the Update path only stamps
tunnel->last_seen, and expire re-reads last_seen under amt->lock to decide
whether to re-arm or free. The Update path therefore never touches gc_wq,
so it can no longer re-queue the work of a tunnel being torn down.
amt_dev_stop() is the other freer, and it walked tunnel_list without
amt->lock while a running gc_wq could free the next entry under it. Mark
every tunnel dead under amt->lock first, so a gc_wq that is already
running sees ->dead and bails instead of freeing in parallel; then unlink
the tunnels one at a time with list_del_rcu() under amt->lock, and cancel,
clear and free each one outside it. The tunnel is freed exactly once, and
because readers walk tunnel_list locklessly under RCU, the entries are
unlinked in place rather than spliced onto a local list head.
Fixes: cbc21dc1cfe9 ("amt: add data plane of amt interface")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Omar Ramadan <redacted>
---
drivers/net/amt.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
include/net/amt.h | 11 +++++++++
2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/amt.c b/drivers/net/amt.c
index b53f8ec..530650d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/amt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/amt.c@@ -1328,8 +1328,30 @@ static void amt_tunnel_expire(struct work_struct *work) struct amt_tunnel_list, gc_wq); struct amt_dev *amt = tunnel->amt; + unsigned long deadline; spin_lock_bh(&amt->lock); + /* amt_dev_stop() has taken ownership of the teardown. */ + if (tunnel->dead) { + spin_unlock_bh(&amt->lock); + return; + } + /* A Membership Update may have refreshed the tunnel after this work + * was queued. Re-arm from last_seen rather than letting + * amt_update_handler() re-arm gc_wq: this handler is then the only + * context that frees the tunnel (and the only one amt_dev_stop() has + * to cancel), which closes the use-after-free where a concurrent + * Update re-armed gc_wq on a tunnel this function had already + * list_del_rcu()'d and kfree_rcu()'d. + */ + deadline = READ_ONCE(tunnel->last_seen) + + msecs_to_jiffies(amt_gmi(amt)) * 3; + if (time_before(jiffies, deadline)) { + mod_delayed_work(amt_wq, &tunnel->gc_wq, deadline - jiffies); + spin_unlock_bh(&amt->lock); + return; + } + tunnel->dead = true; rcu_read_lock(); list_del_rcu(&tunnel->list); amt->nr_tunnels--;
@@ -2494,9 +2516,13 @@ static bool amt_update_handler(struct amt_dev *amt, struct sk_buff *skb) if (tunnel->ip4 == saddr) { if ((nonce == tunnel->nonce && response_mac == tunnel->mac)) { - mod_delayed_work(amt_wq, &tunnel->gc_wq, - msecs_to_jiffies(amt_gmi(amt)) - * 3); + /* Refresh liveness only. gc_wq is + * re-armed by amt_tunnel_expire() itself + * from last_seen, never from here, so this + * cannot re-queue the work of a tunnel + * that is being freed. + */ + WRITE_ONCE(tunnel->last_seen, jiffies); goto report; } else { netdev_dbg(amt->dev, "Invalid MAC\n");
@@ -2732,6 +2758,7 @@ static bool amt_request_handler(struct amt_dev *amt, struct sk_buff *skb) for (i = 0; i < amt->hash_buckets; i++) INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&tunnel->groups[i]); + tunnel->last_seen = jiffies; INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&tunnel->gc_wq, amt_tunnel_expire); list_add_tail_rcu(&tunnel->list, &amt->tunnel_list);
@@ -3050,7 +3077,7 @@ static int amt_dev_open(struct net_device *dev) static int amt_dev_stop(struct net_device *dev) { struct amt_dev *amt = netdev_priv(dev); - struct amt_tunnel_list *tunnel, *tmp; + struct amt_tunnel_list *tunnel; struct sk_buff *skb; struct sock *sk; int i;
@@ -3079,9 +3106,31 @@ static int amt_dev_stop(struct net_device *dev) amt->req_cnt = 0; WRITE_ONCE(amt->remote_ip, 0); - list_for_each_entry_safe(tunnel, tmp, &amt->tunnel_list, list) { - list_del_rcu(&tunnel->list); - amt->nr_tunnels--; + /* Mark every tunnel dead first, so a concurrent amt_tunnel_expire() + * sees ->dead and bails instead of freeing a tunnel in parallel; this + * path is then the sole freer. + */ + spin_lock_bh(&amt->lock); + list_for_each_entry(tunnel, &amt->tunnel_list, list) + tunnel->dead = true; + spin_unlock_bh(&amt->lock); + + /* Unlink one tunnel at a time with list_del_rcu() rather than splicing + * the list onto a local head: a lockless reader walking tunnel_list + * must always terminate at &amt->tunnel_list, never at a stack head. + */ + for (;;) { + spin_lock_bh(&amt->lock); + tunnel = list_first_entry_or_null(&amt->tunnel_list, + struct amt_tunnel_list, list); + if (tunnel) { + list_del_rcu(&tunnel->list); + amt->nr_tunnels--; + } + spin_unlock_bh(&amt->lock); + if (!tunnel) + break; + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&tunnel->gc_wq); amt_clear_groups(tunnel); kfree_rcu(tunnel, rcu);
diff --git a/include/net/amt.h b/include/net/amt.h
index 2846dde..0520121 100644
--- a/include/net/amt.h
+++ b/include/net/amt.h@@ -240,6 +240,17 @@ struct amt_tunnel_list { u32 nr_sources; enum amt_status status; struct delayed_work gc_wq; + /* Last time a valid Membership Update refreshed this tunnel. gc_wq + * re-arms itself from this rather than being re-armed by the Update + * path, so the Update path cannot re-queue the work of a tunnel that + * amt_tunnel_expire() is freeing. + */ + unsigned long last_seen; + /* Set under amt->lock by whichever of amt_tunnel_expire() or + * amt_dev_stop() reaches the tunnel first; the other then leaves it + * alone, so the tunnel is freed exactly once. + */ + bool dead; __be16 source_port; __be32 ip4; __be32 nonce;