CVE: CVE-2025-21678
Published: 2025-01-31
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gtp: Destroy device along with udp socket's netns dismantle.

gtp_newlink() links the device to a list in dev_net(dev) instead of
src_net, where a udp tunnel socket is created.

Even when src_net is removed, the device stays alive on dev_net(dev).
Then, removing src_net triggers the splat below. [0]

In this example, gtp0 is created in ns2, and the udp socket is created
in ns1.

  ip netns add ns1
  ip netns add ns2
  ip -n ns1 link add netns ns2 name gtp0 type gtp role sgsn
  ip netns del ns1

Let's link the device to the socket's netns instead.

Now, gtp_net_exit_batch_rtnl() needs another netdev iteration to remove
all gtp devices in the netns.

[0]:
ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@000000003d6e7d05 has 1/2 users at
     sk_alloc (./include/net/net_namespace.h:345 net/core/sock.c:2236)
     inet_create (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:326 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:252)
     __sock_create (net/socket.c:1558)
     udp_sock_create4 (net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_core.c:18)
     gtp_create_sock (./include/net/udp_tunnel.h:59 drivers/net/gtp.c:1423)
     gtp_create_sockets (drivers/net/gtp.c:1447)
     gtp_newlink (drivers/net/gtp.c:1507)
     rtnl_newlink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3786 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3897 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4012)
     rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6922)
     netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2542)
     netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1321 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1347)
     netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1891)
     ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:711 net/socket.c:726 net/socket.c:2583)
     ___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2639)
     __sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2669)
     do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 60 at lib/ref_tracker.c:179 ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 60 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5-00147-g4c1224501e9d #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
RIP: 0010:ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)
Code: 00 00 00 fc ff df 4d 8b 26 49 bd 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 4c 39 f5 0f 85 df 00 00 00 48 8b 74 24 08 48 89 df e8 a5 cc 12 02 90 <0f> 0b 90 48 8d 6b 44 be 04 00 00 00 48 89 ef e8 80 de 67 ff 48 89
RSP: 0018:ff11000009a07b60 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX:[PII_REDACTED]002bd3 RBX: ff1100000f4e1aa0 RCX: 1ffffffff0e40ac6
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: ffffffff8423ee3c
RBP: ff1100000f4e1af0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: fffffbfff0e395ae
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ff1100000f4e1af0
R13: dead[PII_REDACTED]00 R14: ff1100000f4e1af0 R15: dffffc[PII_REDACTED]
FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ff1100006ce80000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2: 00007f9b2464bd98 CR3: [PII_REDACTED] CR4:[PII_REDACTED]771ef0
DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe07f0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __warn (kernel/panic.c:748)
 ? ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)
 ? report_bug (lib/bug.c:201 lib/bug.c:219)
 ? handle_bug (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:285)
 ? exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:309 (discriminator 1))
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:621)
 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:42 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:97 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:155 ./include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:151 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194)
 ? ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:179)
 ? __pfx_ref_tracker_dir_exit (lib/ref_tracker.c:158)
 ? kfree (mm/slub.c:4613 mm/slub.c:4761)
 net_free (net/core/net_namespace.c:476 net/core/net_namespace.c:467)
 cleanup_net (net/core/net_namespace.c:664 (discriminator 3))
 process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3229)
 worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3304 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/036f8d814a2cd11ee8ef62b8f3e7ce5dec0ee4f3; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f[PII_REDACTED]ff3a6d229d33437fcba3cce9209d; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86f73d4ab2f27deeff22ba9336ad103d94f12ac7