Message ID | 20240819134827.2989452-3-edumazet@google.com (mailing list archive) |
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State | Superseded |
Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
Headers | show |
Series | ipv6: fix possible UAF in output paths | expand |
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c index f7b53effc80f8b3b7a839f58097d021a11f9eb37..1b9ebee7308f02a626c766de1794e6b114ae8554 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -70,11 +70,15 @@ static int ip6_finish_output2(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff * /* Be paranoid, rather than too clever. */ if (unlikely(hh_len > skb_headroom(skb)) && dev->header_ops) { + /* Make sure idev stays alive */ + rcu_read_lock(); skb = skb_expand_head(skb, hh_len); if (!skb) { IP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTDISCARDS); + rcu_read_unlock(); return -ENOMEM; } + rcu_read_unlock(); } hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
If skb_expand_head() returns NULL, skb has been freed and associated dst/idev could also have been freed. We need to hold rcu_read_lock() to make sure the dst and associated idev are alive. Fixes: 5796015fa968 ("ipv6: allocate enough headroom in ip6_finish_output2()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev> --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)