[PATCH net] net: tun: hold napi_mutex when deleting NAPI in tun_detach_all()
From: Cheng Yongkang
Date: Thu Oct 22 2026 - 12:12:46 EST
With IFF_NAPI_FRAGS, tun_get_user() takes tfile->napi_mutex, gets the
skb from napi_get_frags() and copies the user data into it before it
enters the RCU read-side section around napi_gro_frags().
tun_detach_all() waits with synchronize_net() and then calls
tun_napi_del() without napi_mutex. netif_napi_del() frees napi->skb
through napi_free_frags(). A writer that is still copying has not yet
entered its RCU section, so synchronize_net() does not wait for it, and
deleting the device frees the skb while the writer is using it:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_copy_datagram_from_iter+0x175/0x720
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888077def990 by task br029-poc/9406
Call Trace:
skb_copy_datagram_from_iter+0x175/0x720
tun_get_user+0xb42/0x3d00
tun_chr_write_iter+0x113/0x200
...
Freed by task 9405:
kmem_cache_free+0x184/0x670
__netif_napi_del_locked+0x2bb/0x3c0
tun_net_uninit+0x566/0xa70
unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x1a26/0x2090
rtnl_dellink+0x514/0x710
__tun_detach() also calls tun_napi_del() without the mutex, but only
from tun_chr_close(), when no write on that file can be in flight.
Take napi_mutex around tun_napi_del() in tun_detach_all() for both
attached and disabled queues.
Fixes: 90e33d459407 ("tun: enable napi_gro_frags() for TUN/TAP driver")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Cheng Yongkang <teel4res@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 7cca1a6f72ff..850318482697 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -688,14 +688,18 @@ static void tun_detach_all(struct net_device *dev)
synchronize_net();
for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
tfile = rtnl_dereference(tun->tfiles[i]);
+ mutex_lock(&tfile->napi_mutex);
tun_napi_del(tfile);
+ mutex_unlock(&tfile->napi_mutex);
/* Drop read queue */
tun_queue_purge(tfile);
xdp_rxq_info_unreg(&tfile->xdp_rxq);
sock_put(&tfile->sk);
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(tfile, tmp, &tun->disabled, next) {
+ mutex_lock(&tfile->napi_mutex);
tun_napi_del(tfile);
+ mutex_unlock(&tfile->napi_mutex);
tun_enable_queue(tfile);
tun_queue_purge(tfile);
xdp_rxq_info_unreg(&tfile->xdp_rxq);
base-commit: f4377bf85887f57b59abb5479f7660a81ffe4449
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2.34.1