linux/net/openvswitch
Ilya Maximets a58a2b0ce3 net: openvswitch: fix potential UAF on meter attach failure
While attaching a newly created meter attach_meter() function makes
the new meter visible to other CPUs but can still fail afterwards.
On failure, it detaches the meter back and returns an error.

However, this is an unexpected behavior for the ovs_meter_cmd_set()
that uses a plain kfree(meter) on attach failure without waiting for
RCU readers to stop using it, assuming it was never visible.

This is never a problem for ovs-vswitchd as it always creates meters
before creating any flows that use them.  But the UAF can be triggered
with a custom application using uAPI:

 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ovs_meter_execute (net/openvswitch/meter.c:653)
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810d152650 by task meter/2508

 Call Trace:
  ovs_meter_execute (net/openvswitch/meter.c:653)
  do_execute_actions (net/openvswitch/actions.c:1407)
  ovs_execute_actions (net/openvswitch/actions.c:1584)
  ovs_packet_cmd_execute (net/openvswitch/datapath.c:703)
  ...
  netlink_sendmsg (af_netlink.c:1900)

 Allocated by task 2519:
  __kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:398 mm/kasan/common.c:415)
  ovs_meter_cmd_set (net/openvswitch/meter.c:422)
  ...
  netlink_sendmsg (af_netlink.c:1900)

 Freed by task 2519:
  kfree (mm/slub.c:2705 mm/slub.c:6405 mm/slub.c:6720)
  ovs_meter_cmd_set (net/openvswitch/meter.c:479)
  ...
  netlink_sendmsg (af_netlink.c:1900)

Fix that by making sure attach_meter() doesn't make the meter visible
until all the checks are done and the function can't fail anymore.

This also makes sure the "hash" value is calculated after the potential
re-sizing of the table.

Reported by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative as ZDI-CAN-31642.

Fixes: c7c4c44c9a ("net: openvswitch: expand the meters supported number")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Reviewed-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727121022.198461-1-i.maximets@ovn.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-07-30 13:20:03 +02:00
..
actions.c net: openvswitch: fix skb leak on flow key update failure during ct 2026-07-29 17:42:33 -07:00
conntrack.c openvswitch: conntrack: annotate ct limit hlist traversal 2026-06-25 08:38:00 -07:00
conntrack.h net/sched: act_api: fix miss set post_ct for ovs after do conntrack in act_ct 2021-03-16 15:22:18 -07:00
datapath.c openvswitch: fix GSO userspace truncation underflow 2026-07-21 10:25:25 +02:00
datapath.h openvswitch: fix GSO userspace truncation underflow 2026-07-21 10:25:25 +02:00
dp_notify.c net: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq 2025-09-22 17:40:30 -07:00
drop.h net: openvswitch: add misc error drop reasons 2023-08-14 08:01:06 +01:00
flow_netlink.c net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs 2026-07-11 13:09:11 +02:00
flow_netlink.h net: openvswitch: remove never-working support for setting nsh fields 2025-11-14 18:13:24 -08:00
flow_table.c net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate 2026-04-09 19:27:43 -07:00
flow_table.h net: openvswitch: Annotate struct mask_array with __counted_by 2023-10-17 13:56:03 +02:00
flow.c net: openvswitch: Use for_each_cpu() where appropriate 2025-08-20 19:47:22 -07:00
flow.h net: openvswitch: reduce cpu_used_mask memory 2023-02-06 22:36:29 -08:00
Kconfig sctp: use skb_crc32c() instead of __skb_checksum() 2025-05-21 15:40:16 -07:00
Makefile openvswitch: add trace points 2021-06-22 10:47:32 -07:00
meter.c net: openvswitch: fix potential UAF on meter attach failure 2026-07-30 13:20:03 +02:00
meter.h net: openvswitch: remove unnecessary linux/genetlink.h include 2024-04-01 21:44:34 -07:00
openvswitch_trace.c openvswitch: add trace points 2021-06-22 10:47:32 -07:00
openvswitch_trace.h tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str() 2024-05-22 20:14:47 -04:00
vport-geneve.c openvswitch: vport: fix race between tunnel creation and linking 2026-05-05 15:14:33 +02:00
vport-gre.c openvswitch: vport: fix race between tunnel creation and linking 2026-05-05 15:14:33 +02:00
vport-internal_dev.c net: rename netns_local to netns_immutable 2025-03-04 12:44:48 +01:00
vport-internal_dev.h
vport-netdev.c openvswitch: vport: fix race between linking and the device notifier 2026-05-18 16:38:45 -07:00
vport-netdev.h openvswitch: vport: fix race between tunnel creation and linking 2026-05-05 15:14:33 +02:00
vport-vxlan.c openvswitch: vport: fix race between tunnel creation and linking 2026-05-05 15:14:33 +02:00
vport.c openvswitch: fix GSO userspace truncation underflow 2026-07-21 10:25:25 +02:00
vport.h net: openvswitch: fix kernel-doc warnings in internal headers 2025-03-24 09:30:21 -07:00