linux-stable.git/drivers/net/ppp, branch linux-6.16.y

ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb

2025-09-09T17:02:28+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

2025-08-28T14:34:47+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

2025-08-15T14:39:29+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()

2025-08-15T14:39:23+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

ppp: Split ppp_exit_net() to ->exit_rtnl().

2025-04-23T02:07:41+00:00

ppp_exit_net() unregisters devices related to the netns under
RTNL and destroys lists and IDR.

Let's use ->exit_rtnl() for the device unregistration part to
save RTNL dances for each netns.

Note that we delegate the for_each_netdev_safe() part to
default_device_exit_batch() and replace unregister_netdevice_queue()
with ppp_nl_dellink() to align with bond, geneve, gtp, and pfcp.

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250418003259.48017-4-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2025-04-10T09:24:17+00:00

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

net: move misc netdev_lock flavors to a separate header

2025-03-08T17:06:50+00:00

Move the more esoteric helpers for netdev instance lock to
a dedicated header. This avoids growing netdevice.h to infinity
and makes rebuilding the kernel much faster (after touching
the header with the helpers).

The main netdev_lock() / netdev_unlock() functions are used
in static inlines in netdevice.h and will probably be used
most commonly, so keep them in netdevice.h.

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307183006.2312761-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2025-03-06T21:03:35+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.14-rc6).

Conflicts:

net/ethtool/cabletest.c
  2bcf4772e45a ("net: ethtool: try to protect all callback with netdev instance lock")
  637399bf7e77 ("net: ethtool: netlink: Allow NULL nlattrs when getting a phy_device")

No Adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ppp: use IFF_NO_QUEUE in virtual interfaces

2025-03-05T01:11:17+00:00

For PPPoE, PPTP, and PPPoL2TP, the start_xmit() function directly
forwards packets to the underlying network stack and never returns
anything other than 1. So these interfaces do not require a qdisc,
and the IFF_NO_QUEUE flag should be set.

Introduces a direct_xmit flag in struct ppp_channel to indicate when
IFF_NO_QUEUE should be applied. The flag is set in ppp_connect_channel()
for relevant protocols.

While at it, remove the usused latency member from struct ppp_channel.

Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng 
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250301135517.695809-1-dqfext@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ppp: Fix KMSAN uninit-value warning with bpf

2025-03-05T00:56:41+00:00

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