From: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
To: andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ppp: fix bsd_decompress() OOB read and ppp_decompress_frame() headroom check
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:52:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260919215233.3470411-1-benquike@gmail.com> (raw)
In ppp_decompress_frame(), skb->data - 2 is passed to the decompressor
assuming at least 2 bytes of headroom exist for the PPP Address/Control
fields, and the returned decompressed length is only checked for len < 0
before indexing ns->data[2..3] and calling skb_pull_rcsum(skb, 2).
Ensure 2 bytes of headroom via pskb_expand_head(skb, 2, 0, GFP_ATOMIC),
reject decompressed frames shorter than PPP_HDRLEN (4 bytes), and check
isize >= PPP_HDRLEN + BSD_OVHD in bsd_decompress() before reading the
sequence number and header bytes.
Fixes: 224cf5ad14c0 ("ppp: Move the PPP drivers")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/bsd_comp.c b/drivers/net/ppp/bsd_comp.c
index 63a6d251c746..03ee4ff4ec1b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/bsd_comp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/bsd_comp.c
@@ -847,6 +847,8 @@ static int bsd_decompress (void *state, unsigned char *ibuf, int isize,
int extra;
db = (struct bsd_db *) state;
+ if (isize < PPP_HDRLEN + BSD_OVHD)
+ return DECOMP_ERROR;
max_ent = db->max_ent;
accm = 0;
bitno = 32; /* 1st valid bit in accm */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
index 1a610a18893b..f7af328b7bf8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -2552,7 +2552,8 @@ ppp_decompress_frame(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb)
/* Until we fix all the decompressor's need to make sure
* data portion is linear.
*/
- if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, skb->len))
+ if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, skb->len) ||
+ pskb_expand_head(skb, 2, 0, GFP_ATOMIC))
goto err;
if (proto == PPP_COMP) {
@@ -2576,7 +2577,7 @@ ppp_decompress_frame(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb)
/* the decompressor still expects the A/C bytes in the hdr */
len = ppp->rcomp->decompress(ppp->rc_state, skb->data - 2,
skb->len + 2, ns->data, obuff_size);
- if (len < 0) {
+ if (len < PPP_HDRLEN) {
/* Pass the compressed frame to pppd as an
error indication. */
if (len == DECOMP_FATALERROR)
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-19 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-19 21:52 Hui Peng [this message]
2026-09-20 22:54 ` [PATCH] ppp: fix bsd_decompress() OOB read and ppp_decompress_frame() headroom check netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-22 14:25 ` Simon Horman
2026-09-21 15:10 ` krzk
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