This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tun: tun_chr_open(): correctly initialize socket uid to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tun-tun_chr_open-correctly-initialize-socket-uid.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4a599ecc5763a254466201fd4548a35ca178a0aa Author: Pietro Borrello <borrello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Feb 4 17:39:21 2023 +0000 tun: tun_chr_open(): correctly initialize socket uid [ Upstream commit a096ccca6e503a5c575717ff8a36ace27510ab0a ] sock_init_data() assumes that the `struct socket` passed in input is contained in a `struct socket_alloc` allocated with sock_alloc(). However, tun_chr_open() passes a `struct socket` embedded in a `struct tun_file` allocated with sk_alloc(). This causes a type confusion when issuing a container_of() with SOCK_INODE() in sock_init_data() which results in assigning a wrong sk_uid to the `struct sock` in input. On default configuration, the type confused field overlaps with the high 4 bytes of `struct tun_struct __rcu *tun` of `struct tun_file`, NULL at the time of call, which makes the uid of all tun sockets 0, i.e., the root one. Fix the assignment by using sock_init_data_uid(). Fixes: 86741ec25462 ("net: core: Add a UID field to struct sock.") Signed-off-by: Pietro Borrello <borrello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index 957e6051c535b..5d94ac0250ecf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -3525,7 +3525,7 @@ static int tun_chr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file * file) tfile->socket.file = file; tfile->socket.ops = &tun_socket_ops; - sock_init_data(&tfile->socket, &tfile->sk); + sock_init_data_uid(&tfile->socket, &tfile->sk, inode->i_uid); tfile->sk.sk_write_space = tun_sock_write_space; tfile->sk.sk_sndbuf = INT_MAX;