From: Roshan Kumar <roshaen09@gmail.com>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Christian Hopps <chopps@labn.net>,
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roshan Kumar <roshaen09@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: iptfs: fix stack OOB read in iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk()
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:56:08 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260728052608.2898018-1-roshaen09@gmail.com> (raw)
iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk() advances to the fragment containing @offset
with an unbounded loop:
while (offset >= walk->past + walk->frags[walk->fragi].len)
walk->past += walk->frags[walk->fragi++].len;
walk->fragi is advanced and walk->frags[walk->fragi] is dereferenced
without ever checking fragi against walk->nr_frags. When the requested
offset is at or beyond the total length spanned by the walk's fragments,
fragi runs past nr_frags and off the end of the fixed-size on-stack
frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1] array, reading out-of-bounds stack memory.
The two callers behave differently: iptfs_skb_add_frags() already guards
against this with
if (!walk->nr_frags ||
offset >= walk->total + walk->initial_offset)
return len;
but iptfs_skb_can_add_frags() has no such guard and calls
iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk() unconditionally, so it performs the
out-of-range walk. Its own "fragi < walk->nr_frags" bound check runs only
afterwards, too late to prevent the read.
This is reachable from the receive path: a crafted IP-TFS (AGGFRAG)
payload delivered to an IPTFS SA drives iptfs_reassem_cont() ->
iptfs_skb_can_add_frags() with an offset past the fragment total, e.g.:
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk+0x235/0x250
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888008ad7210 by task repro/345
iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk+0x235/0x250 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:392
iptfs_skb_can_add_frags+0x155/0x310 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:420
iptfs_reassem_cont+0xcf8/0x1140 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:902
iptfs_input_ordered+0x552/0x670 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:1280
iptfs_input+0x3d6/0xde0 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:1741
xfrm_input+0x282f/0x6140 net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c:700
xfrm4_esp_rcv+0x93/0x120 net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c:104
ip_rcv+0x278/0x2d0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:612
Give iptfs_skb_can_add_frags() the same up-front guard that
iptfs_skb_add_frags() already has, so the walk is never entered with an
out-of-range offset. When it triggers, the caller falls back to the
existing linearize-and-copy path, which is safe.
Fixes: 5f2b6a909574 ("xfrm: iptfs: add skb-fragment sharing code")
Reported-by: Roshan Kumar <roshaen09@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Roshan Kumar <roshaen09@gmail.com>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
index 597aedeac..2ce15c472 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
@@ -416,6 +416,14 @@ static bool iptfs_skb_can_add_frags(const struct sk_buff *skb,
if (skb_has_frag_list(skb) || skb->pp_recycle != walk->pp_recycle)
return false;
+ /* Reject an @offset that is at or beyond the end of the walk's data
+ * before calling iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk(), whose fragment-advance
+ * loop is otherwise unbounded and would index past walk->frags[].
+ * This mirrors the guard already present in iptfs_skb_add_frags().
+ */
+ if (!walk->nr_frags || offset >= walk->total + walk->initial_offset)
+ return false;
+
/* Make offset relative to current frag after setting that */
offset = iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk(walk, offset);
--
2.43.0
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