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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2024-08-20 18:08:58 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-08-22 02:35:49 +0200
commitda273b377ae0d9bd255281ed3c2adb228321687b (patch)
tree93eb1d8a41e18154d4ca37d010815fe762e98fe0 /net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
parentipv6: prevent UAF in ip6_send_skb() (diff)
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ipv6: fix possible UAF in ip6_finish_output2()
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> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240820160859.3786976-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_output.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index f7b53effc80f..1b9ebee7308f 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);