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ovpn: avoid putting unrelated P2P peer on socket release
authorQing Ming <a0yami@mailbox.org>
Sat, 23 May 2026 08:15:43 +0000 (16:15 +0800)
committerAntonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:49:55 +0000 (15:49 +0200)
ovpn_peer_release_p2p() is called when an OVPN UDP socket is being
destroyed. It checks the currently published P2P peer and releases it only
if that peer still uses the socket being destroyed.

A peer replacement can publish a new peer before the old UDP socket is
destroyed. When the old socket destruction path runs afterwards,
ovpn_peer_release_p2p() observes the new peer through ovpn->peer. Since the
new peer uses a different socket, the function takes the socket mismatch
branch.

That branch still calls ovpn_peer_put(peer). At this point, however, peer
is the currently published replacement peer, not the peer associated with
the socket being destroyed. Dropping its reference can free it while
ovpn->peer still points to it, leading to later use-after-free accesses
from the peer and socket cleanup paths.

KASAN reports this as a slab-use-after-free on the kmalloc-1k ovpn_peer
object. In the reproducer, the object is allocated from ovpn_peer_new() via
ovpn_nl_peer_new_doit(), and freed through ovpn_peer_release_rcu() from RCU
callback processing. Observed access sites include ovpn_peer_remove(),
ovpn_socket_release(), ovpn_nl_peer_del_notify(), and unlock_ovpn().

Fix this by returning from the socket mismatch branch without putting the
peer.

Fixes: f6226ae7a0cd ("ovpn: introduce the ovpn_socket object")
Signed-off-by: Qing Ming <a0yami@mailbox.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c

index a09d61296425aa770aa8c44e344a5229ddf6d515..1844d97154cea7278a607ef321a716c967fcb8f9 100644 (file)
@@ -1167,7 +1167,6 @@ static void ovpn_peer_release_p2p(struct ovpn_priv *ovpn, struct sock *sk,
                ovpn_sock = rcu_access_pointer(peer->sock);
                if (!ovpn_sock || ovpn_sock->sk != sk) {
                        spin_unlock_bh(&ovpn->lock);
-                       ovpn_peer_put(peer);
                        return;
                }
        }