linux.git/net/tipc, branch master

tipc: Dont send random pad bytes in RESET/ACTIVATE messages

2026-09-01T03:02:36+00:00

The interface name is passed in a fixed length (TIPC_MAX_IF_NAME) buffer.
Replace the strcpy(data, l->if_name) with memcpy() so that the
pad bytes are actually written (l->if_name[] is zero padded)
rather than sending random bytes from the skb to the remote system.

Replace two other strcpy() with strscpy().

Fixes: e74a386d70c7 ("tipc: remove pre-allocated message header in link struct")
Signed-off-by: David Laight 
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260829115813.188600-1-david.laight.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tipc: fix NULL deref in tipc_named_node_up() on empty publication list

2026-09-01T03:01:49+00:00

User-space applications can bind a large number of service addresses to
one or more sockets. Each binding of a local-scope service address inserts
one entry (publication) into the TIPC name table. If the number of these
publications exceeds TIPC_MAX_PUBL (65535), protocol service types
(such as node state and link state) are no longer inserted into the name
table. This causes two issues:

1. User-space applications subscribing to node or link up/down events
   stop receiving notifications.

2. A NULL pointer dereference can occur:

   BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000d0
   ...
   CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc4-default+ #5 PREEMPT(full)
   ...
   RIP: 0010:tipc_named_node_up (./include/linux/skbuff.h:2251 net/tipc/name_distr.c:195 net/tipc/name_distr.c:221)
   ...
   Call Trace:
   
   tipc_node_write_unlock (net/tipc/node.c:428)
   tipc_rcv (net/tipc/node.c:934 net/tipc/node.c:2189)
   tipc_udp_recv (net/tipc/udp_media.c:389)

   Thread 1 (tipc_net_finalize) | Thread 2 (named_distribute)
   -----------------------------|-----------------------------
                                | ...
                                | list_for_each_entry(publ, pls, binding_node) {
                                | ...
                                | __skb_queue_tail(list, skb);
                                | ...
                                | }
                                | ...
                                | hdr = buf_msg(skb_peek_tail(list));
   ...                          |
   tipc_nametbl_publish();      |

   If 'tipc_nametbl_publish()' (Thread 1) fails because the number of
   local publications reaches TIPC_MAX_PUBL, list (Thread 2) will be empty. As a
   result, NULL is passed to 'buf_msg()', leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

Fix these issues by allowing protocol service types (node state, link state,
and topology server) to be inserted into the name table unconditionally.
This ensures that users subscribing to these types always receive
notifications. In addition, the maximum number of local user publications is
reduced to (TIPC_MAX_PUBL - 1). This ensures that the maximum bulk size
calculated in tipc_link_set_queue_limits() remains valid.

Fixes: a5e7ac5ce134 ("tipc: fix regression bug where node events are not being generated")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei 
Tested-by: Weiming Shi 
Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260827111418.164957-1-tung.quang.nguyen@est.tech
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tipc: protect node reset trace dump with node lock

2026-08-28T21:35:19+00:00

The tipc_node_reset_links trace event asks tipc_node_dump() to walk the
node's link entries. Unlike the other node events that request link data,
this event runs without the node lock.

This permits bearer teardown to free a link while the trace callback is
dumping it:

  CPU 0                                CPU 1
  trace_tipc_node_reset_links()
    tipc_node_dump()
      l = n->links[0].link
                                       tipc_node_write_lock()
                                       kfree(l)
                                       n->links[0].link = NULL
                                       tipc_node_write_unlock()
      tipc_link_dump(l)

tipc_link_dump() then dereferences the stale pointer. KASAN reported:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tipc_link_dump
  Read of size 4 by task poc/115
  Call Trace:
   tipc_link_dump+0x10cb/0x16b0
   tipc_node_dump+0x4bb/0x740
   trace_event_raw_event_tipc_node_class+0x258/0x360
   tipc_node_reset_links+0x14d/0x1a0
   tipc_rcv+0x13f5/0x3030
   tipc_udp_recv+0x4e3/0x670
  Allocated by task 0:
   tipc_link_create+0x1e1/0x1020
   tipc_node_check_dest+0x7d2/0x11a0
   tipc_disc_rcv+0xdbf/0x1430
  Freed by task 89:
   kfree+0x131/0x3c0
   tipc_node_link_down+0x267/0x4b0
   tipc_node_delete_links+0xec/0x160
   bearer_disable+0x107/0x260

Take the node write lock around the trace event. This serializes the
dump against tipc_node_link_down(delete=true), which frees the link
under the same write lock.

Fixes: eb18a510b5cd ("tipc: add trace_events for tipc node")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye 
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260825190141.242219-1-nicoyip.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tipc: read le->link under the node lock in tipc_node_link_down()

2026-08-11T13:50:22+00:00

tipc_node_link_down() caches the link pointer before taking n->lock:

	struct tipc_link *l = le->link;		/* unlocked */

	if (!l)
		return;
	tipc_node_write_lock(n);
	if (!tipc_link_is_establishing(l)) {	/* deref l */
	...
		tipc_link_reset(l);		/* write into l */
	if (delete) {
		kfree(l);
		le->link = NULL;

The delete=true caller frees that very object under n->lock, so the lock
does not protect the cached pointer against it:

 - CPU A, delete=false: tipc_rcv() on TIPC_LINK_DOWN_EVT, or the link
   supervision timer via tipc_node_timeout(), reads l unlocked and then
   dereferences it under n->lock;
 - CPU B, delete=true: netlink TIPC_NL_BEARER_DISABLE -> bearer_disable()
   -> tipc_node_delete_links() -> tipc_node_link_down(n, bearer_id, true)
   -> kfree(l).

The link is freed with plain kfree(), not kfree_rcu(), and for UDP bearers
disable_media() only schedules the asynchronous cleanup_bearer() work, so
its synchronize_net() runs after the links are already gone.  An in-flight
CPU A that has read l therefore dereferences freed memory once B frees it:
a use-after-free read in tipc_link_is_establishing(), and a use-after-free
write via tipc_link_reset() on the establishing branch.

The following trace was captured on 7.2.0-rc5-00284-gaf39eb111ce6:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tipc_link_is_establishing (net/tipc/link.c:285)
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802e2aa068 by task swapper/2/0
   tipc_link_is_establishing (net/tipc/link.c:285)
   tipc_node_link_down (net/tipc/node.c:1076)
   tipc_node_timeout (net/tipc/node.c:843)
  Allocated by task 9549:
   tipc_link_create (net/tipc/link.c:490)
   tipc_node_check_dest (net/tipc/node.c:1279)
   tipc_disc_rcv (net/tipc/discover.c:252)
   tipc_udp_recv (net/tipc/udp_media.c:389)
  Freed by task 9549:
   tipc_node_link_down (net/tipc/node.c:1084)
   tipc_node_delete_links (net/tipc/node.c:1320)
   bearer_disable (net/tipc/bearer.c:414)
   __tipc_nl_bearer_disable (net/tipc/bearer.c:992)

Move the le->link read inside tipc_node_write_lock(), so it is serialised
against the kfree() in the delete path.  A racing teardown now either has
not run yet, and we see a valid link, or has already run, and we see NULL.

Fixes: 73f646cec354 ("tipc: delay ESTABLISH state event when link is established")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI 
Assisted-by: tencentos-corvus-ai:kimi-k3
Signed-off-by: Jun Yang 
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260810102147.48191-1-juny24602@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tipc: avoid use-after-free in poll trace queue dumps

2026-07-27T22:18:59+00:00

TIPC socket tracepoints dump queue state through tipc_sk_dump(). Most
queue-dump callsites already serialize that walk under the socket lock or
sk->sk_lock.slock, but tipc_poll() calls trace_tipc_sk_poll(...,
TIPC_DUMP_ALL, ...) without holding either lock.

That lets the poll trace path reach tipc_list_dump() and backlog head/tail
dumping while another context dequeues and frees an skb, leaving the trace
helper dereferencing a stale queue entry.

Stop the unlocked poll trace site from requesting queue dumps. Other queue
dump trace callsites keep their existing output under the locking they
already provide, while poll still emits the event itself without walking
live queue members from an unlocked context.

Fixes: b4b9771bcbbd ("tipc: enable tracepoints in tipc")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega 
Signed-off-by: Zihan Xi 
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei 
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f8119abd5e5ecc400597de667ae9d39656de56d0.1784794294.git.zihanx@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tipc: fix integer overflow in tipc_recvmsg() and tipc_recvstream()

2026-07-23T17:11:48+00:00

In tipc_recvmsg(), the copy length is computed as:

  copy = min_t(int, dlen - offset, buflen);

buflen is size_t but min_t(int, ...) casts it to int. When buflen
exceeds INT_MAX (e.g. 0xFFFFFFFF via io_uring provided buffers), it
wraps negative, wins the comparison, and the negative copy length
propagates to simple_copy_to_iter() where int-to-size_t promotion
makes it SIZE_MAX, triggering a WARN_ON. tipc_recvstream() has the
same pattern.

  Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel: panic_on_warn set ...
  RIP: 0010:simple_copy_to_iter+0x9e/0xd0 (net/core/datagram.c:521)
  Call Trace:
   __skb_datagram_iter+0x123/0x8b0 (net/core/datagram.c:402)
   skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x77/0x1a0 (net/core/datagram.c:534)
   tipc_recvmsg+0x3d7/0xe80 (net/tipc/socket.c:1934)
   io_recvmsg+0x47e/0xda0

Fix by changing min_t(int, ...) to min_t(size_t, ...) in both
functions. The result is always <= (dlen - offset), which is bounded
by TIPC maximum message size (0x1ffff bytes), so the implicit
narrowing on assignment to int copy is always safe.

Fixes: e9f8b10101c6 ("tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg()")
Fixes: ec8a09fbbeff ("tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream()")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang (Microsoft) 
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260720214103.47732-1-blbllhy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tipc: clear sock->sk on the failed-insert path in tipc_sk_create()

2026-07-23T10:58:06+00:00

When tipc_sk_create() fails to insert the new socket (tipc_sk_insert()
returns non-zero), its error path frees the sk with sk_free() but leaves
sock->sk pointing at the freed object:

	if (tipc_sk_insert(tsk)) {
		sk_free(sk);
		pr_warn("Socket create failed; port number exhausted\n");
		return -EINVAL;
	}

This is harmless for plain socket(): the syscall layer clears sock->ops
before releasing, so tipc_release() is never called. It is not harmless
on the accept() path. tipc_accept() creates the pre-allocated child
socket with tipc_sk_create(net, new_sock, 0, kern); on failure it leaves
new_sock->sk dangling and new_sock->ops non-NULL, and do_accept() then
fput()s the new file, so __sock_release() -> tipc_release() runs
lock_sock(new_sock->sk) on the freed sk -- a use-after-free write of the
sk_lock spinlock.

tipc_release() already guards this exact "failed accept() releases a
pre-allocated child" case with "if (sk == NULL) return 0;", but the
guard is bypassed because tipc_sk_create() left sock->sk non-NULL
(dangling) rather than NULL.

Clear sock->sk on the failed-insert path so the existing tipc_release()
NULL check fires and the use-after-free is avoided.

The tipc_sk_insert() failure is reached when the per-netns socket
rhashtable hits its max_size (tsk_rht_params.max_size = 1048576, ~2M
elements) -- i.e. once a netns holds ~2M TIPC sockets every insert
returns -E2BIG.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_sock_nested (net/core/sock.c:3839)
  Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880047cdc38 by task init/1
   lock_sock_nested (net/core/sock.c:3839)
   tipc_release (net/tipc/socket.c:638)
   __sock_release (net/socket.c:710)
   sock_close (net/socket.c:1501)
   __fput (fs/file_table.c:512)
  Allocated by task 1:
   sk_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2308)
   tipc_sk_create (net/tipc/socket.c:487)
   tipc_accept (net/tipc/socket.c:2744)
   do_accept (net/socket.c:2034)
  Freed by task 1:
   __sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2391)
   tipc_sk_create (net/tipc/socket.c:504)
   tipc_accept (net/tipc/socket.c:2744)
   do_accept (net/socket.c:2034)

Fixes: 00aff3590fc0 ("net: tipc: fix possible refcount leak in tipc_sk_create()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen 
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao 
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260714131939.1255974-1-4ncienth@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tipc: fix u16 MTU truncation in media and bearer MTU validation

2026-07-23T09:41:03+00:00

Both TIPC_NL_MEDIA_SET and TIPC_NL_BEARER_SET accept user-supplied
MTU values but only enforce a minimum bound, not a maximum. When a user
sets the MTU to a value exceeding U16_MAX (65535), it passes validation
but is silently truncated when assigned to u16 fields l->mtu and
l->advertised_mtu in tipc_link_create(). Values like 65536 (0x10000)
truncate to 0, causing a division by zero in tipc_link_set_queue_limits()
which computes TIPC_MAX_PUBL / (l->mtu / ITEM_SIZE). Other overflowing
values (e.g. 65537-131071) produce small incorrect MTU values, resulting
in link malfunction behaviors.

Crash stack (triggered as unprivileged user via user namespace):

  tipc_link_set_queue_limits  net/tipc/link.c:2531
  tipc_link_create            net/tipc/link.c:520
  tipc_node_check_dest        net/tipc/node.c:1279
  tipc_disc_rcv               net/tipc/discover.c:252
  tipc_rcv                    net/tipc/node.c:2129
  tipc_udp_recv               net/tipc/udp_media.c:392

Two independent paths lack the upper bound check:
1. tipc_udp_mtu_bad() -- called from __tipc_nl_media_set() (MEDIA_SET)
2. inline check in __tipc_nl_bearer_set() at bearer.c:1160 (BEARER_SET)

Fix both by rejecting MTU values above U16_MAX.

Fixes: 901271e0403a ("tipc: implement configuration of UDP media MTU")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAB8m9WgETt0AjmFwE=F-CKjGXsK6_WDv0=kbYRcC8-noo+amnA@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko 
Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang (Microsoft) 
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260714041541.307702-1-blbllhy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tipc: fix infinite loop in __tipc_nl_compat_dumpit

2026-07-21T22:12:23+00:00

cmd->dumpit callback can return a negative errno, causing an infinite
loop due to the while(len) condition. As the loop never terminates,
genl_mutex is never released, and other tasks waiting on it starve in D
state.

Check dumpit's return value, propagate it and jump to err_out on error.

Reported-by: syzbot+85d0bec020d805014a3a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=85d0bec020d805014a3a
Fixes: d0796d1ef63d ("tipc: convert legacy nl bearer dump to nl compat")
Signed-off-by: Helen Koike 
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260713204940.647668-1-koike@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tipc: serialize udp bearer replicast list updates

2026-07-21T18:57:21+00:00

tipc_udp_rcast_add() and cleanup_bearer() both update ub->rcast.list with
list_add_rcu() / list_del_rcu(), but nothing serializes them. The add runs
from the encap receive softirq (via tipc_udp_rcast_disc()) without
rtnl_lock(), so it can race the cleanup delete and corrupt the list:

  list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff8880298d7ab8,
    but was ffff88802449ad38. (prev=ffff888027e3ec98)
  kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62!
  RIP: __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x17a/0x200
  Workqueue: events cleanup_bearer
  Call Trace:
   cleanup_bearer (net/tipc/udp_media.c:811)
   process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3302)
   worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3466)

The bearer can be enabled from an unprivileged user namespace, as the
TIPCv2 generic-netlink ops carry no GENL_ADMIN_PERM.

Add a spinlock to struct udp_bearer and take it around the list_add_rcu()
in tipc_udp_rcast_add() and the list_del_rcu() loop in cleanup_bearer() so
the two writers can no longer corrupt the list.

Reject a duplicate peer under the same lock before allocating, and remove
tipc_udp_is_known_peer(). The old lockless pre-check in
tipc_udp_rcast_disc() was racy: two softirqs discovering the same peer
could both find it absent and add it twice.

cleanup_bearer() runs from a workqueue after tipc_udp_disable() clears the
bearer's up bit, so an encap softirq can still reach tipc_udp_rcast_add()
and add a peer after cleanup_bearer() has already emptied the list, leaking
that entry when the bearer is freed. Mark the bearer disabled under
rcast_lock once the list is emptied and refuse further additions.

Fixes: ef20cd4dd163 ("tipc: introduce UDP replicast")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei 
Suggested-by: Tung Nguyen 
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi 
Reviewed-by: Tung Nguyen 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260716025203.9332-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski