CVE-2026-80851gtp: serialize PDP context updates

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gtp: serialize PDP context updates PDP contexts can be deleted through GTP_CMD_DELPDP or while the GTP network device is being unregistered. The latter is serialized by RTNL, but the generic-netlink delete path only holds RCU. Running both paths concurrently can therefore make both paths delete the same PDP context. The issue was found through static analysis and reproduced on a KASAN-enabled kernel by a simple two-thread program racing GTP_CMD_DELPDP against RTM_DELLINK: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000120-0xdead000000000127] RIP: gtp_genl_del_pdp+0x1c1/0x420 [gtp] RBP: dead000000000122 The second deletion dereferenced the poisoned hlist pprev pointer. Serialize gtp_pdp_add(), gtp_genl_del_pdp(), and gtp_dellink() with a shared mutex. Keep the mutex held until the final use of a PDP context in the NEWPDP path, and keep the RCU read-side section around the complete PDP context use in the DELPDP path.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Affected products (as reported)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8ebf8875fb97b3e39aa226af78f9c619e96ee31
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e5472c1c1619793cbadb02bccf7d2d9f826052f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9a83492ffc99f228d91873473e3820300525f00
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4ac2a5ce5a96ec21ed48f60d30b52b1fb22c62a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f77ddb2756340c1b05381674ca025d52998005e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d950e98f74af9611925a5226edced02155f6ed1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6df4f05bc2991467939d7d80b6f7e121559cc3df
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e995498d29784a06a2b2899370a1926cfc8410d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/498386b6d402737db1e2eeed4c385acbf0ef9e34