From 05f95729ca844704d15e49ce14868af4b403b32b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Bommarito Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 22:34:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] l2tp: use refcount_inc_not_zero in l2tp_session_get_by_ifname A reader in l2tp_session_get_by_ifname() can return a pointer to a session whose refcount has reached zero. The getter takes its reference with plain refcount_inc(), but every other session getter in the same file (l2tp_v2_session_get, l2tp_v3_session_get, and the corresponding _get_next variants) uses refcount_inc_not_zero() because the IDR/RCU lookup can race with refcount_dec_and_test() -> l2tp_session_free() -> kfree_rcu(). The ifname getter is the only outlier; the inconsistency was raised on-list after 979c017803c4 ("l2tp: use list_del_rcu in l2tp_session_unhash"). A reader inside rcu_read_lock_bh() that matches session->ifname can be preempted between the strcmp() and the refcount_inc(). If the last reference drops on another CPU in that window, the reader's refcount_inc() runs on a counter that has reached zero. refcount_t catches the addition-on-zero, prints "refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free", saturates the counter, and returns the saturated pointer to the caller. Session memory is held live by the in-flight RCU read section, but the kfree_rcu() callback queued from l2tp_session_free() will free it once the grace period closes; a caller that dereferences the returned session past that point hits a slab-use-after-free. On PREEMPT_RT local_bh_disable() is a per-CPU sleeping lock and the preemption window is real; on stock PREEMPT kernels local_bh_disable() is a preempt_count increment that closes the cross-CPU race in practice (see below). Use refcount_inc_not_zero() and continue the list walk on failure, matching the other session getters in the file. The ifname getter is the only session getter in net/l2tp/ that still uses the bare refcount_inc() pattern; this change restores file-internal consistency. The success path is unchanged. Fixes: abe7a1a7d0b6 ("l2tp: improve tunnel/session refcount helpers") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito Reviewed-by: James Chapman Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260523023423.2568972-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c index 1455f67e01dd..9419c8555d22 100644 --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c @@ -441,12 +441,13 @@ struct l2tp_session *l2tp_session_get_by_ifname(const struct net *net, idr_for_each_entry_ul(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr, tunnel, tmp, tunnel_id) { if (tunnel) { list_for_each_entry_rcu(session, &tunnel->session_list, list) { - if (!strcmp(session->ifname, ifname)) { - refcount_inc(&session->ref_count); - rcu_read_unlock_bh(); + if (strcmp(session->ifname, ifname)) + continue; + if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&session->ref_count)) + continue; + rcu_read_unlock_bh(); - return session; - } + return session; } } }