linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-21678: gtp: Destroy device along with udp socket's netns dismantle.

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Message-ID: <2025013102-CVE-2025-21678-42cb@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:31:10 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21678: gtp: Destroy device along with udp socket's netns dismantle.

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gtp: Destroy device along with udp socket's netns dismantle.

gtp_newlink() links the device to a list in dev_net(dev) instead of
src_net, where a udp tunnel socket is created.

Even when src_net is removed, the device stays alive on dev_net(dev).
Then, removing src_net triggers the splat below. [0]

In this example, gtp0 is created in ns2, and the udp socket is created
in ns1.

  ip netns add ns1
  ip netns add ns2
  ip -n ns1 link add netns ns2 name gtp0 type gtp role sgsn
  ip netns del ns1

Let's link the device to the socket's netns instead.

Now, gtp_net_exit_batch_rtnl() needs another netdev iteration to remove
all gtp devices in the netns.

[0]:
ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@...000003d6e7d05 has 1/2 users at
     sk_alloc (./include/net/net_namespace.h:345 net/core/sock.c:2236)
     inet_create (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:326 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:252)
     __sock_create (net/socket.c:1558)
     udp_sock_create4 (net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_core.c:18)
     gtp_create_sock (./include/net/udp_tunnel.h:59 drivers/net/gtp.c:1423)
     gtp_create_sockets (drivers/net/gtp.c:1447)
     gtp_newlink (drivers/net/gtp.c:1507)
     rtnl_newlink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3786 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3897 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4012)
     rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6922)
     netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2542)
     netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1321 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1347)
     netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1891)
     ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:711 net/socket.c:726 net/socket.c:2583)
     ___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2639)
     __sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2669)
     do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 60 at lib/ref_tracker.c:179 ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 60 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5-00147-g4c1224501e9d #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
RIP: 0010:ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)
Code: 00 00 00 fc ff df 4d 8b 26 49 bd 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 4c 39 f5 0f 85 df 00 00 00 48 8b 74 24 08 48 89 df e8 a5 cc 12 02 90 <0f> 0b 90 48 8d 6b 44 be 04 00 00 00 48 89 ef e8 80 de 67 ff 48 89
RSP: 0018:ff11000009a07b60 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000002bd3 RBX: ff1100000f4e1aa0 RCX: 1ffffffff0e40ac6
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8423ee3c
RBP: ff1100000f4e1af0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbfff0e395ae
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000036001 R12: ff1100000f4e1af0
R13: dead000000000100 R14: ff1100000f4e1af0 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff1100006ce80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f9b2464bd98 CR3: 0000000005286005 CR4: 0000000000771ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __warn (kernel/panic.c:748)
 ? ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)
 ? report_bug (lib/bug.c:201 lib/bug.c:219)
 ? handle_bug (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:285)
 ? exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:309 (discriminator 1))
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:621)
 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:42 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:97 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:155 ./include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:151 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194)
 ? ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)
 ? __pfx_ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:158)
 ? kfree (mm/slub.c:4613 mm/slub.c:4761)
 net_free (net/core/net_namespace.c:476 net/core/net_namespace.c:467)
 cleanup_net (net/core/net_namespace.c:664 (discriminator 3))
 process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3229)
 worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3304 kernel/workqueue.c:3391)
 kthread (kernel/kthread.c:389)
 ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147)
 ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:257)
 </TASK>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21678 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.7 with commit 459aa660eb1d8ce67080da1983bb81d716aa5a69 and fixed in 5.15.177 with commit 036f8d814a2cd11ee8ef62b8f3e7ce5dec0ee4f3
	Issue introduced in 4.7 with commit 459aa660eb1d8ce67080da1983bb81d716aa5a69 and fixed in 6.1.127 with commit efec287cbac92ac6ee8312a89221854760e13b34
	Issue introduced in 4.7 with commit 459aa660eb1d8ce67080da1983bb81d716aa5a69 and fixed in 6.6.74 with commit bb11f992f5a475bc68ef959f17a55306f0328495
	Issue introduced in 4.7 with commit 459aa660eb1d8ce67080da1983bb81d716aa5a69 and fixed in 6.12.11 with commit 86f73d4ab2f27deeff22ba9336ad103d94f12ac7
	Issue introduced in 4.7 with commit 459aa660eb1d8ce67080da1983bb81d716aa5a69 and fixed in 6.13 with commit eb28fd76c0a08a47b470677c6cef9dd1c60e92d1

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-21678
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/gtp.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/036f8d814a2cd11ee8ef62b8f3e7ce5dec0ee4f3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efec287cbac92ac6ee8312a89221854760e13b34
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb11f992f5a475bc68ef959f17a55306f0328495
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86f73d4ab2f27deeff22ba9336ad103d94f12ac7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb28fd76c0a08a47b470677c6cef9dd1c60e92d1