CVE: CVE-2023-54142
Published: 2025-12-24
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().

syzkaller reported use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy(). [0]

It shows the same process freed sk and touched it illegally.

Commit e198987e7dd7 ("gtp: fix suspicious RCU usage") added lock_sock()
and release_sock() in __gtp_encap_destroy() to protect sk->sk_user_data,
but release_sock() is called after sock_put() releases the last refcnt.

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800dbef398 by task syz-executor.2/2401

CPU: 1 PID: 2401 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]
 print_report+0xcc/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:462
 kasan_report+0xb2/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:572
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:181 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x39/0x1c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:187
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]
 atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline]
 queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline]
 __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178
 spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:355 [inline]
 release_sock+0x1f/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:3526
 gtp_encap_disable_sock drivers/net/gtp.c:651 [inline]
 gtp_encap_disable+0xb9/0x220 drivers/net/gtp.c:664
 gtp_dev_uninit+0x19/0x50 drivers/net/gtp.c:728
 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x97e/0x1520 net/core/dev.c:10841
 rtnl_delete_link net/core/rtnetlink.c:3216 [inline]
 rtnl_dellink+0x3c0/0xb30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3268
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x450/0xb10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6423
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x15d/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2548
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x700/0x930 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365
 netlink_sendmsg+0x91c/0xe30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1913
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x200 net/socket.c:747
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x75a/0x990 net/socket.c:2493
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2547
 __sys_sendmsg+0xfe/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2576
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
RIP: 0033:0x7f1168b1fe5d
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 73 9f 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f1167edccc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:[PII_REDACTED]00002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX:[PII_REDACTED]4bbf80 RCX: 00007f1168b1fe5d
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI:[PII_REDACTED]0002c0 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP:[PII_REDACTED]4bbf80 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
R13:[PII_REDACTED]00000b R14: 00007f1168b80530 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1483:
 kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x
---truncated---
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17d6b6354f0025b7c10a56da783fd0cbb3819c5d; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58fa341327fdb4bdf92597fd8796a9abc8d20ea3; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c9662e2512b5e4ee7b03108802c5222e0fa77a4