From: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>
To: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Topel <bjorn@kernel.org>,
Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>,
Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>,
"Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@fomichev.me>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] xsk: cache csum_start/csum_offset to fix TOCTOU in xsk_skb_metadata()
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 22:11:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903221130.27316-1-surajjs@amazon.com> (raw)
From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
commit 22ba97ea9cc1f63a0d0244fae38057ed452b6ac7 upstream.
The TX metadata area resides in the UMEM buffer which is memory-mapped
and concurrently writable by userspace. In xsk_skb_metadata(),
csum_start and csum_offset are read from shared memory for bounds
validation, then read again for skb assignment. A malicious userspace
application can race to overwrite these values between the two reads,
bypassing the bounds check and causing out-of-bounds memory access
during checksum computation in the transmit path.
Fix this by reading csum_start and csum_offset into local variables
once, then using the local copies for both validation and assignment.
Note that other metadata fields (flags, launch_time) and the cached
csum fields may be mutually inconsistent due to concurrent userspace
writes, but this is benign: the only security-critical invariant is
that each field's validated value is the same one used, which local
caching guarantees.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260503200927.73EA1C2BCB4@smtp.kernel.org/
Reviewed-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Fixes: 48eb03dd2630 ("xsk: Add TX timestamp and TX checksum offload support")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260530042630.80626-1-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[ 6.12: Apply fix in xsk_build_skb() since missing patch
30c3055f9c0d ("xsk: wrap generic metadata handling onto separate
function") added in v6.18 which moves handling to separate
function xsk_skb_metadata(). ]
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>
---
net/xdp/xsk.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk.c b/net/xdp/xsk.c
index da7e11e3bfad..76675ce70f03 100644
--- a/net/xdp/xsk.c
+++ b/net/xdp/xsk.c
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *xsk_build_skb(struct xdp_sock *xs,
struct xsk_tx_metadata *meta = NULL;
struct net_device *dev = xs->dev;
struct sk_buff *skb = xs->skb;
+ u16 csum_start, csum_offset;
bool first_frag = false;
int err;
@@ -733,15 +734,17 @@ static struct sk_buff *xsk_build_skb(struct xdp_sock *xs,
}
if (meta->flags & XDP_TXMD_FLAGS_CHECKSUM) {
- if (unlikely(meta->request.csum_start +
- meta->request.csum_offset +
+ csum_start = READ_ONCE(meta->request.csum_start);
+ csum_offset = READ_ONCE(meta->request.csum_offset);
+
+ if (unlikely(csum_start + csum_offset +
sizeof(__sum16) > len)) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto free_err;
}
- skb->csum_start = hr + meta->request.csum_start;
- skb->csum_offset = meta->request.csum_offset;
+ skb->csum_start = hr + csum_start;
+ skb->csum_offset = csum_offset;
skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
if (unlikely(xs->pool->tx_sw_csum)) {
--
2.47.3
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