CVE-2024-53211

net/l2tp: fix warning in l2tp_exit_net found by syzbot

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Nov 19, 2024

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Description

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

net/l2tp: fix warning in l2tp_exit_net found by syzbot

In l2tp's net exit handler, we check that an IDR is empty before destroying it:

WARN_ON_ONCE(!idr_is_empty(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr)); idr_destroy(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_idr);

By forcing memory allocation failures in idr_alloc_32, syzbot is able to provoke a condition where idr_is_empty returns false despite there being no items in the IDR. This turns out to be because the radix tree of the IDR contains only internal radix-tree nodes and it is this that causes idr_is_empty to return false. The internal nodes are cleaned by idr_destroy.

Use idr_for_each to check that the IDR is empty instead of idr_is_empty to avoid the problem.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 73d33bd063c4cfef3db17f9bec3d202928ed8631 to before a487cc8986d6dd75b60b59004f3bd2ea9b4dd541Affected
  • 73d33bd063c4cfef3db17f9bec3d202928ed8631 to before 5d066766c5f1252f98ff859265bcd1a5b52ac46cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.2 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

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