Subject: [PATCH 1/1] l2tp: pppol2tp: hold reference to session in pppol2tp_ioctl()

From: Lee Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 14:48:36 +0100

pppol2tp_ioctl() read sock->sk->sk_user_data directly without any locks
or reference counting.  If a controllable sleep was induced during
copy_from_user() (e.g. via a userfaultfd page fault sleep), a concurrent
socket close could trigger pppol2tp_session_close() asynchronously.  This
frees the l2tp_session structure via the l2tp_session_del_work workqueue.
Upon resuming, the ioctl thread dereferences the stale session pointer,
resulting in a Use-After-Free (UAF).

Fix this by securely fetching the session reference using the RCU-safe,
refcounted helper pppol2tp_sock_to_session(sk) on entry.  This locks the
session's refcount across the sleep.  We structured the function to exit
via standard err breaks, guaranteeing that l2tp_session_put() is cleanly
called on all return paths to drop the reference.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <[email-masked]>
---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
index 99d6582f41de..9a2243a32ceb 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
@@ -1045,64 +1045,57 @@ static int pppol2tp_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd,
 {
 	struct pppol2tp_ioc_stats stats;
 	struct l2tp_session *session;
+	int err = 0;
+
+	session = pppol2tp_sock_to_session(sock->sk);
+	if (!session)
+		return -ENOTCONN;
 
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case PPPIOCGMRU:
 	case PPPIOCGFLAGS:
-		session = sock->sk->sk_user_data;
-		if (!session)
-			return -ENOTCONN;
-
-		if (WARN_ON(session->magic != L2TP_SESSION_MAGIC))
-			return -EBADF;
-
 		/* Not defined for tunnels */
-		if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id)
-			return -ENOSYS;
+		if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id) {
+			err = -ENOSYS;
+			break;
+		}
 
-		if (put_user(0, (int __user *)arg))
-			return -EFAULT;
+		if (put_user(0, (int __user *)arg)) {
+			err = -EFAULT;
+			break;
+		}
 		break;
 
 	case PPPIOCSMRU:
 	case PPPIOCSFLAGS:
-		session = sock->sk->sk_user_data;
-		if (!session)
-			return -ENOTCONN;
-
-		if (WARN_ON(session->magic != L2TP_SESSION_MAGIC))
-			return -EBADF;
-
 		/* Not defined for tunnels */
-		if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id)
-			return -ENOSYS;
+		if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id) {
+			err = -ENOSYS;
+			break;
+		}
 
-		if (!access_ok((int __user *)arg, sizeof(int)))
-			return -EFAULT;
+		if (!access_ok((int __user *)arg, sizeof(int))) {
+			err = -EFAULT;
+			break;
+		}
 		break;
 
 	case PPPIOCGL2TPSTATS:
-		session = sock->sk->sk_user_data;
-		if (!session)
-			return -ENOTCONN;
-
-		if (WARN_ON(session->magic != L2TP_SESSION_MAGIC))
-			return -EBADF;
-
 		/* Session 0 represents the parent tunnel */
 		if (!session->session_id && !session->peer_session_id) {
 			u32 session_id;
-			int err;
 
 			if (copy_from_user(&stats, (void __user *)arg,
-					   sizeof(stats)))
-				return -EFAULT;
+					   sizeof(stats))) {
+				err = -EFAULT;
+				break;
+			}
 
 			session_id = stats.session_id;
 			err = pppol2tp_tunnel_copy_stats(&stats,
 							 session->tunnel);
 			if (err < 0)
-				return err;
+				break;
 
 			stats.session_id = session_id;
 		} else {
@@ -1112,15 +1105,20 @@ static int pppol2tp_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd,
 		stats.tunnel_id = session->tunnel->tunnel_id;
 		stats.using_ipsec = l2tp_tunnel_uses_xfrm(session->tunnel);
 
-		if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &stats, sizeof(stats)))
-			return -EFAULT;
+		if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &stats, sizeof(stats))) {
+			err = -EFAULT;
+			break;
+		}
 		break;
 
 	default:
-		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+		err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+		break;
 	}
 
-	return 0;
+	l2tp_session_put(session);
+
+	return err;
 }
 
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