5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com
commit 2d5ff7e339d04622d8282661df36151906d0e1c7 upstream.
If skb_expand_head() returns NULL, skb has been freed and the associated dst/idev could also have been freed.
We must use rcu_read_lock() to prevent a possible UAF.
Fixes: 0c9f227bee11 ("ipv6: use skb_expand_head in ip6_xmit") 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/20240820160859.3786976-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -272,11 +272,15 @@ int ip6_xmit(const struct sock *sk, stru head_room += opt->opt_nflen + opt->opt_flen;
if (unlikely(head_room > skb_headroom(skb))) { + /* Make sure idev stays alive */ + rcu_read_lock(); skb = skb_expand_head(skb, head_room); if (!skb) { IP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTDISCARDS); + rcu_read_unlock(); return -ENOBUFS; } + rcu_read_unlock(); }
if (opt) {