Bug 2502875 (CVE-2026-64188)

Summary: CVE-2026-64188 kernel: net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix endpoint use-after-free in rmnet_dellink()
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A flaw was found in the Qualcomm rmnet driver within the Linux kernel. The `rmnet_dellink()` function improperly frees an endpoint while Read-Copy-Update (RCU) readers may still hold a reference to it. This use-after-free vulnerability allows a local attacker to trigger a system crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-20 17:02:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix endpoint use-after-free in rmnet_dellink()

rmnet_dellink() removes the endpoint from the hash table with
hlist_del_init_rcu() and then immediately frees it with kfree(). However,
RCU readers on the receive path (rmnet_rx_handler ->
__rmnet_map_ingress_handler) may still hold a reference to the endpoint and
dereference ep->egress_dev after the memory has been freed. The endpoint is
a kmalloc-32 object, and the stale read at offset 8 corresponds to the
egress_dev pointer.

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffde942eef
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 137 Comm: poc_write Not tainted 7.0.0+ #4 PREEMPTLAZY
  RIP: 0010:rmnet_vnd_rx_fixup (rmnet_vnd.c:27)
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __rmnet_map_ingress_handler (rmnet_handlers.c:48 rmnet_handlers.c:101)
   rmnet_rx_handler (rmnet_handlers.c:129 rmnet_handlers.c:235)
   __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:6096)
   __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6208)
   netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6467)
   tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1955)
   tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2003)
   vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:688)
   ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:740)
   </TASK>

Add an rcu_head field to struct rmnet_endpoint and replace kfree() with
kfree_rcu() so the endpoint memory remains valid through the RCU grace
period. Also remove the rmnet_vnd_dellink() call and inline only the
nr_rmnet_devs decrement, since rmnet_vnd_dellink() would set
ep->egress_dev to NULL during the grace period, creating a data race
with lockless readers.