From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bestswngs@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mpls: fix NULL deref in mpls_valid_fib_dump_req() on CONFIG_INET=n
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:24:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9961c0a-dfe6-4d77-8547-fed90f7fb705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260712220903.3131568-1-xmei5@asu.edu>
On 7/12/26 4:09 PM, Xiang Mei wrote:
> On CONFIG_INET=n, mpls_valid_fib_dump_req()'s local strict-check loop
> enters the RTA_OIF arm on the index alone and calls nla_get_u32(tb[i]).
> Since nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict() leaves tb[i] NULL for any omitted
> attribute, a dump without RTA_OIF dereferences NULL and oopses.
>
> Skip unset attributes before dispatching on the index, mirroring
> ip_valid_fib_dump_req().
>
> Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
> 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
> KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
> RIP: 0010:mpls_valid_fib_dump_req (net/mpls/af_mpls.c:2189)
> Call Trace:
> mpls_dump_routes (net/mpls/af_mpls.c:2236)
> netlink_dump (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2331)
> __netlink_dump_start (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2446)
> rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7041)
> netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556)
> netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345)
> netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900)
> __sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:790)
> ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2684)
> ___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2738)
> __sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2770)
> do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
>
> Fixes: 196cfebf8972 ("net/mpls: Handle kernel side filtering of route dumps")
> Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
> Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
> ---
> net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
> index ca504d9626cf..1ad07df89d5b 100644
> --- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
> +++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
> @@ -2185,13 +2185,16 @@ static int mpls_valid_fib_dump_req(struct net *net, const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
> for (i = 0; i <= RTA_MAX; ++i) {
> int ifindex;
>
> + if (!tb[i])
> + continue;
> +
> if (i == RTA_OIF) {
> ifindex = nla_get_u32(tb[i]);
> filter->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
> if (!filter->dev)
> return -ENODEV;
> filter->filter_set = 1;
> - } else if (tb[i]) {
> + } else {
> NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Unsupported attribute in dump request");
> return -EINVAL;
> }
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-15 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-12 22:09 [PATCH net] mpls: fix NULL deref in mpls_valid_fib_dump_req() on CONFIG_INET=n Xiang Mei
2026-07-15 15:24 ` David Ahern [this message]
2026-07-21 19:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
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2026-07-11 11:50 Weiming Shi
2026-07-11 16:56 ` David Ahern
2026-07-17 11:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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