[PATCH 1/1] l2tp: pppol2tp: hold reference to session in pppol2tp_ioctl()

From: Lee Jones

Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 09:49:45 EST


pppol2tp_ioctl() read sock->sk->sk_user_data directly without any locks
or reference counting. If a controllable sleep was induced during
copy_from_user() (e.g. via a userfaultfd page fault sleep), a concurrent
socket close could trigger pppol2tp_session_close() asynchronously. This
frees the l2tp_session structure via the l2tp_session_del_work workqueue.
Upon resuming, the ioctl thread dereferences the stale session pointer,
resulting in a Use-After-Free (UAF).

Fix this by securely fetching the session reference using the RCU-safe,
refcounted helper pppol2tp_sock_to_session(sk) on entry. This locks the
session's refcount across the sleep. We structured the function to exit
via standard err breaks, guaranteeing that l2tp_session_put() is cleanly
called on all return paths to drop the reference.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
index 99d6582f41de..9a2243a32ceb 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
@@ -1045,64 +1045,57 @@ static int pppol2tp_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd,
{
struct pppol2tp_ioc_stats stats;
struct l2tp_session *session;
+ int err = 0;
+
+ session = pppol2tp_sock_to_session(sock->sk);
+ if (!session)
+ return -ENOTCONN;

switch (cmd) {
case PPPIOCGMRU:
case PPPIOCGFLAGS:
- session = sock->sk->sk_user_data;
- if (!session)
- return -ENOTCONN;
-
- if (WARN_ON(session->magic != L2TP_SESSION_MAGIC))
- return -EBADF;
-
/* Not defined for tunnels */
- if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id)
- return -ENOSYS;
+ if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id) {
+ err = -ENOSYS;
+ break;
+ }

- if (put_user(0, (int __user *)arg))
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (put_user(0, (int __user *)arg)) {
+ err = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }
break;

case PPPIOCSMRU:
case PPPIOCSFLAGS:
- session = sock->sk->sk_user_data;
- if (!session)
- return -ENOTCONN;
-
- if (WARN_ON(session->magic != L2TP_SESSION_MAGIC))
- return -EBADF;
-
/* Not defined for tunnels */
- if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id)
- return -ENOSYS;
+ if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id) {
+ err = -ENOSYS;
+ break;
+ }

- if (!access_ok((int __user *)arg, sizeof(int)))
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (!access_ok((int __user *)arg, sizeof(int))) {
+ err = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }
break;

case PPPIOCGL2TPSTATS:
- session = sock->sk->sk_user_data;
- if (!session)
- return -ENOTCONN;
-
- if (WARN_ON(session->magic != L2TP_SESSION_MAGIC))
- return -EBADF;
-
/* Session 0 represents the parent tunnel */
if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id) {
u32 session_id;
- int err;

if (copy_from_user(&stats, (void __user *)arg,
- sizeof(stats)))
- return -EFAULT;
+ sizeof(stats))) {
+ err = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }

session_id = stats.session_id;
err = pppol2tp_tunnel_copy_stats(&stats,
session->tunnel);
if (err < 0)
- return err;
+ break;

stats.session_id = session_id;
} else {
@@ -1112,15 +1105,20 @@ static int pppol2tp_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd,
stats.tunnel_id = session->tunnel->tunnel_id;
stats.using_ipsec = l2tp_tunnel_uses_xfrm(session->tunnel);

- if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &stats, sizeof(stats)))
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &stats, sizeof(stats))) {
+ err = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }
break;

default:
- return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+ err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+ break;
}

- return 0;
+ l2tp_session_put(session);
+
+ return err;
}

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