[PATCH 6.12 306/567] ip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:31:09Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit db5b4e39c4e63700c68a7e65fc4e1f1375273476 ]

Over the years, syzbot found many ways to crash the kernel
in ip6gre_header() [1].

This involves team or bonding drivers ability to dynamically
change their dev->needed_headroom and/or dev->hard_header_len

In this particular crash mld_newpack() allocated an skb
with a too small reserve/headroom, and by the time mld_sendpack()
was called, syzbot managed to attach an ip6gre device.

[1]
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8a1d69a8 len:136 put:40 head:ffff888059bc7000 data:ffff888059bc6fe8 tail:0x70 end:0x6c0 dev:team0
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:213 !
<TASK>
skb_under_panic net/core/skbuff.c:223 [inline]
skb_push+0xc3/0xe0 net/core/skbuff.c:2641
ip6gre_header+0xc8/0x790 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:1371
dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3436 [inline]
neigh_connected_output+0x286/0x460 net/core/neighbour.c:1618
neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:556 [inline]
ip6_finish_output2+0xfb3/0x1480 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:136
__ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:-1 [inline]
ip6_finish_output+0x234/0x7d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:220
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855
mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693

Fixes: c12b395a4664 ("gre: Support GRE over IPv6")
Reported-by: syzbot+43a2ebcf2a64b1102d64@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/693b002c.a70a0220.33cd7b.0033.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211173550.2032674-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 68e9a41eed49..1c186d132fe0 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1395,9 +1395,16 @@ static int ip6gre_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
{
struct ip6_tnl *t = netdev_priv(dev);
struct ipv6hdr *ipv6h;
+ int needed;
__be16 *p;

- ipv6h = skb_push(skb, t->hlen + sizeof(*ipv6h));
+ needed = t->hlen + sizeof(*ipv6h);
+ if (skb_headroom(skb) < needed &&
+ pskb_expand_head(skb, HH_DATA_ALIGN(needed - skb_headroom(skb)),
+ 0, GFP_ATOMIC))
+ return -needed;
+
+ ipv6h = skb_push(skb, needed);
ip6_flow_hdr(ipv6h, 0, ip6_make_flowlabel(dev_net(dev), skb,
t->fl.u.ip6.flowlabel,
true, &t->fl.u.ip6));
--
2.51.0