Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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

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

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

In this example, pfcp0 is created in ns2, but the udp socket is
created in ns1.

ip netns add ns1
ip netns add ns2
ip -n ns1 link add netns ns2 name pfcp0 type pfcp
ip netns del ns1

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

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

pfcp_dev_list is not used under RCU, so the list API is converted
to the non-RCU variant.

pfcp_net_exit() can be converted to .exit_batch_rtnl() in net-next.

[0]:
ref_tracker: net notrefcnt@00000000128b34dc has 1/1 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)
pfcp_create_sock (drivers/net/pfcp.c:168)
pfcp_newlink (drivers/net/pfcp.c:182 drivers/net/pfcp.c:197)
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/n...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21677

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.77% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-01 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c35a66e2bfea53dea3562b2575ac7fd4c38ee61
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffc90e9ca61b0f619326a1417ff32efd6cc71ed2

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