[PATCH net v2] gtp: serialize PDP context updates

From: Qing Ming

Date: Sat Aug 08 2026 - 08:44:32 EST


PDP contexts can be deleted through GTP_CMD_DELPDP or while the GTP
network device is being unregistered. The latter is serialized by RTNL,
but the generic-netlink delete path only holds RCU.

Running both paths concurrently can therefore make both paths delete the
same PDP context. The issue was found through static analysis and
reproduced on a KASAN-enabled kernel by a two-thread program
racing GTP_CMD_DELPDP against RTM_DELLINK:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range
[0xdead000000000120-0xdead000000000127]
RIP: gtp_genl_del_pdp+0x1c1/0x420 [gtp]
RBP: dead000000000122

The second deletion dereferenced the poisoned hlist pprev pointer.

Serialize PDP context updates with a mutex shared by gtp_pdp_add(),
gtp_genl_del_pdp(), and gtp_dellink().

Fixes: 459aa660eb1d ("gtp: add initial driver for datapath of GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP-U)")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Qing Ming <a0yami@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Use a dedicated mutex instead of RTNL.
- Protect PDP add, delete, and link teardown with the same mutex.
drivers/net/gtp.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/gtp.c b/drivers/net/gtp.c
index 427b91aca50d..161d004e34b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gtp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gtp.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt

#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/udp.h>
#include <linux/rculist.h>
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ struct gtp_net {
};

static u32 gtp_h_initval;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(gtp_pdp_lock);

static struct genl_family gtp_genl_family;

@@ -1546,9 +1548,11 @@ static void gtp_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
struct pdp_ctx *pctx;
int i;

+ mutex_lock(&gtp_pdp_lock);
for (i = 0; i < gtp->hash_size; i++)
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(pctx, next, &gtp->tid_hash[i], hlist_tid)
pdp_context_delete(pctx);
+ mutex_unlock(&gtp_pdp_lock);

list_del_rcu(&gtp->list);
unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, head);
@@ -1820,6 +1824,8 @@ static struct pdp_ctx *gtp_pdp_add(struct gtp_dev *gtp, struct sock *sk,
__be32 ms_addr;
int family;

+ guard(mutex)(&gtp_pdp_lock);
+
version = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[GTPA_VERSION]);

if (info->attrs[GTPA_FAMILY])
@@ -2127,6 +2133,8 @@ static int gtp_genl_del_pdp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (!info->attrs[GTPA_VERSION])
return -EINVAL;

+ mutex_lock(&gtp_pdp_lock);
+
rcu_read_lock();

pctx = gtp_find_pdp(sock_net(skb->sk), info->attrs);
@@ -2147,6 +2155,7 @@ static int gtp_genl_del_pdp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)

out_unlock:
rcu_read_unlock();
+ mutex_unlock(&gtp_pdp_lock);
return err;
}

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2.53.0