[PATCH 5.10/5.15/6.1/6.6/6.12/6.18] fou: Fix use-after-free in fou_create()
From: Dmitriy Okunev
Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 10:53:33 EST
From: Xuanqiang Luo <luoxuanqiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b14361aca6350ff7907b0e9903c7b94dc7d5d4a0 upstream.
fou_create() publishes struct fou through sk_user_data before adding the
new FOU port to the per-netns list. If fou_add_to_port_list() fails,
the error path frees fou while it is still reachable through
sk_user_data. A concurrent receive can then dereference the freed
object in fou_from_sock().
This ordering issue was previously noted in the linked discussion.
The failure is reachable when local port 0 is requested. Each socket
binds to a different ephemeral port, but fou_cfg_cmp() compares the
requested port 0 and reports -EALREADY once an entry already exists.
Release the tunnel socket before freeing fou so sk_user_data is cleared
first, and defer reclamation with kfree_rcu() to protect concurrent RCU
readers. This matches the lifetime handling in fou_release().
Fixes: 23461551c006 ("fou: Support for foo-over-udp RX path")
Suggested-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260502031401.3557229-12-kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xuanqiang Luo <luoxuanqiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260722083858.182506-1-xuanqiang.luo@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Okunev <dokunevdmitriy@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/fou_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fou_core.c b/net/ipv4/fou_core.c
index 0e173998f1d7..790791d08a1c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fou_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fou_core.c
@@ -636,9 +636,9 @@ static int fou_create(struct net *net, struct fou_cfg *cfg,
return 0;
error:
- kfree(fou);
if (sock)
udp_tunnel_sock_release(sock);
+ kfree_rcu(fou, rcu);
return err;
}
--
2.53.0