ovpn_nl_peer_new_doit()'s error path calls ovpn_peer_release() directly
rather than ovpn_peer_put(), bypassing the kref. The accompanying
comment ("peer was not yet hashed, thus it is not used in any context")
holds for UDP but not for TCP.
For UDP, the ovpn_socket union uses the .ovpn arm and never points back
at a peer; UDP encap_recv looks up peers via the not-yet-populated
hashtables, so the new peer is unreachable until ovpn_peer_add()
publishes it.
For TCP, ovpn_socket_new() sets ovpn_sock->peer and
ovpn_tcp_socket_attach() publishes ovpn_sock via rcu_assign_sk_user_data().
From that moment until ovpn_socket_release() detaches in the error path,
the TCP fd is fully wired: userspace recvmsg / sendmsg / close / poll
on the fd, as well as the strparser-driven ovpn_tcp_rcv() path, can
reach the peer through sk_user_data -> ovpn_sock->peer and bump its
refcount via ovpn_peer_hold().
ovpn_tcp_socket_wait_finish() (called inside ovpn_socket_release())
drains strparser and the tx work, but does not synchronize with
userspace syscall callers that already hold a peer reference. If
ovpn_nl_peer_modify() or ovpn_peer_add() returns an error while such
a caller is in flight - notably an ovpn_tcp_recvmsg() blocked in
__skb_recv_datagram() on peer->tcp.user_queue - the direct
ovpn_peer_release() destroys the peer while the caller still holds
the reference, and the eventual ovpn_peer_put() from that caller
operates on freed memory.
Replace the direct destructor call with ovpn_peer_put() so the kref
correctly defers destruction until the last reference is dropped.
In the common case where no concurrent user is present, behaviour is
unchanged: the kref hits zero immediately and ovpn_peer_release_kref()
runs the same destructor.
With this conversion ovpn_peer_release() has no callers outside peer.c
- ovpn_peer_release_kref() in the same translation unit is the only
remaining user - so make it static and drop its declaration from
peer.h.
Fixes: 11851cbd60 ("ovpn: implement TCP transport")
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
In order to support the multipeer architecture, upon connection setup
each side of a tunnel advertises a unique ID that the other side must
include in packets sent to them. Therefore when transmitting a packet, a
peer inserts the recipient's advertised ID for that specific tunnel into
the peer ID field. When receiving a packet, a peer expects to find its
own unique receive ID for that specific tunnel in the peer ID field.
Add support for the TX peer ID and embed it into transmitting packets.
If no TX peer ID is specified, fallback to using the same peer ID both
for RX and TX in order to be compatible with the non-multipeer compliant
peers.
Cc: horms@kernel.org
Cc: donald.hunter@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ralf Lici <ralf@mandelbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
This change introduces the netlink command needed to add, delete and
retrieve/dump known peers. Userspace is expected to use these commands
to handle known peer lifecycles.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-18-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
In case of UDP links, the local or remote endpoint used to communicate
with a given peer may change without a connection restart.
Add support for learning the new address in case of change.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-17-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
OpenVPN supports configuring a periodic keepalive packet.
message to allow the remote endpoint detect link failures.
This change implements the keepalive sending and timer expiring logic.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-16-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
With this change an ovpn instance will be able to stay connected to
multiple remote endpoints.
This functionality is strictly required when running ovpn on an
OpenVPN server.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-14-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
With this change ovpn is allowed to communicate to peers also via TCP.
Parsing of incoming messages is implemented through the strparser API.
Note that ovpn redefines sk_prot and sk_socket->ops for the TCP socket
used to communicate with the peer.
For this reason it needs to access inet6_stream_ops, which is declared
as extern in the IPv6 module, but it is not fully exported.
Therefore this patch is also adding EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inet6_stream_ops)
to net/ipv6/af_inet6.c.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-11-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Byte/packet counters for in-tunnel and transport streams
are now initialized and updated as needed.
To be exported via netlink.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-10-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
This change implements encryption/decryption and
encapsulation/decapsulation of OpenVPN packets.
Support for generic crypto state is added along with
a wrapper for the AEAD crypto kernel API.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-9-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Packets sent over the ovpn interface are processed and transmitted to the
connected peer, if any.
Implementation is UDP only. TCP will be added by a later patch.
Note: no crypto/encapsulation exists yet. Packets are just captured and
sent.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-7-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
This specific structure is used in the ovpn kernel module
to wrap and carry around a standard kernel socket.
ovpn takes ownership of passed sockets and therefore an ovpn
specific objects is attached to them for status tracking
purposes.
Initially only UDP support is introduced. TCP will come in a later
patch.
Cc: willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-6-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
An ovpn_peer object holds the whole status of a remote peer
(regardless whether it is a server or a client).
This includes status for crypto, tx/rx buffers, napi, etc.
Only support for one peer is introduced (P2P mode).
Multi peer support is introduced with a later patch.
Along with the ovpn_peer, also the ovpn_bind object is introcued
as the two are strictly related.
An ovpn_bind object wraps a sockaddr representing the local
coordinates being used to talk to a specific peer.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-b4-ovpn-v26-5-577f6097b964@openvpn.net
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
