[PATCH ovpn net v3 5/9] ovpn: zero-initialize sockaddr before learning a floated endpoint
Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:07:01 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.openvpn.devel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
From: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]> ovpn_peer_endpoints_update() builds the new remote endpoint in an on-stack struct sockaddr_storage that is left uninitialized. For IPv4 only sin_family/sin_addr/sin_port are written, leaving the 8-byte sin_zero padding as stack garbage (for IPv6, sin6_flowinfo is left uninitialized likewise). ovpn_peer_reset_sockaddr() -> ovpn_bind_from_sockaddr() then memcpy()s sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)/sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6) bytes - padding included - into bind->remote. That buffer is later hashed with jhash() over the same length to place the peer in the by_transp_addr table, so the garbage padding lands the floated peer in an essentially random bucket. Lockless lookups in ovpn_peer_get_by_transp_addr() build their key from a zero-initialized sockaddr_storage, compute a different bucket and fail to find the peer. This is also a plain use of uninitialized stack memory in jhash(). Zero-initialize the sockaddr_storage, matching what the lookup and netlink paths already do. Fixes: f0281c1d3732 ("ovpn: add support for updating local or remote UDP endpoint") Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c index 3554da01e406..be772d14ae41 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c +++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static void __ovpn_peer_hash_transp_addr(struct ovpn_peer *peer, */ void ovpn_peer_endpoints_update(struct ovpn_peer *peer, struct sk_buff *skb) { - struct sockaddr_storage ss; + struct sockaddr_storage ss = {}; struct sockaddr_in6 *sa6; bool reset_cache = false; struct sockaddr_in *sa; -- 2.54.0