From: Guillaume Nault <g.na...@alphalink.fr>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:49:00 +0100
> Using l2tp_tunnel_find() in l2tp_ip_recv() is wrong for two reasons:
>
> * It doesn't take a reference on the returned tunnel, which makes the
> call racy wrt. concurrent tunnel deletion.
>
> * The lookup is only based on the tunnel identifier, so it can return
> a tunnel that doesn't match the packet's addresses or protocol.
>
> For example, a packet sent to an L2TPv3 over IPv6 tunnel can be
> delivered to an L2TPv2 over UDPv4 tunnel. This is worse than a simple
> cross-talk: when delivering the packet to an L2TP over UDP tunnel, the
> corresponding socket is UDP, where ->sk_backlog_rcv() is NULL. Calling
> sk_receive_skb() will then crash the kernel by trying to execute this
> callback.
>
> And l2tp_tunnel_find() isn't even needed here. __l2tp_ip_bind_lookup()
> properly checks the socket binding and connection settings. It was used
> as a fallback mechanism for finding tunnels that didn't have their data
> path registered yet. But it's not limited to this case and can be used
> to replace l2tp_tunnel_find() in the general case.
>
> Fix l2tp_ip6 in the same way.
>
> Fixes: 0d76751fad77 ("l2tp: Add L2TPv3 IP encapsulation (no UDP) support")
> Fixes: a32e0eec7042 ("l2tp: introduce L2TPv3 IP encapsulation support for
> IPv6")
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.na...@alphalink.fr>
Applied, thanks.
