[PATCH 6.18 055/277] net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-08T18:29:39Z

From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>

[ Upstream commit 2884bf72fb8f03409e423397319205de48adca16 ]

bond_xmit_broadcast() reuses the original skb for the last slave
(determined by bond_is_last_slave()) and clones it for others.
Concurrent slave enslave/release can mutate the slave list during
RCU-protected iteration, changing which slave is "last" mid-loop.
This causes the original skb to be double-consumed (double-freed).

Replace the racy bond_is_last_slave() check with a simple index
comparison (i + 1 == slaves_count) against the pre-snapshot slave
count taken via READ_ONCE() before the loop. This preserves the
zero-copy optimization for the last slave while making the "last"
determination stable against concurrent list mutations.

The UAF can trigger the following crash:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_clone
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888100ef8d40 by task exploit/147

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 147 Comm: exploit Not tainted 7.0.0-rc3+ #4 PREEMPTLAZY
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123)
print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597)
skb_clone (include/linux/skbuff.h:1724 include/linux/skbuff.h:1792 include/linux/skbuff.h:3396 net/core/skbuff.c:2108)
bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5334)
bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5567 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5593)
dev_hard_start_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:5325 include/linux/netdevice.h:5334 net/core/dev.c:3871 net/core/dev.c:3887)
__dev_queue_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:3601 net/core/dev.c:4838)
ip6_finish_output2 (include/net/neighbour.h:540 include/net/neighbour.h:554 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:136)
ip6_finish_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:208 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:219)
ip6_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:250)
ip6_send_skb (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1985)
udp_v6_send_skb (net/ipv6/udp.c:1442)
udpv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/udp.c:1733)
__sys_sendto (net/socket.c:730 net/socket.c:742 net/socket.c:2206)
__x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2209)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
</TASK>

Allocated by task 147:

Freed by task 147:

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888100ef8c80
which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 224
The buggy address is located 192 bytes inside of
freed 224-byte region [ffff888100ef8c80, ffff888100ef8d60)

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888100ef8c00: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888100ef8c80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888100ef8d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
^
ffff888100ef8d80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888100ef8e00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Fixes: 4e5bd03ae346 ("net: bonding: fix bond_xmit_broadcast return value error bug")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326075553.3960562-1-xmei5@asu.edu
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 106cfe732a15e..1d84e348f2cc7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -5300,7 +5300,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t bond_xmit_broadcast(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (!(bond_slave_is_up(slave) && slave->link == BOND_LINK_UP))
continue;

- if (bond_is_last_slave(bond, slave)) {
+ if (i + 1 == slaves_count) {
skb2 = skb;
skb_used = true;
} else {
--
2.53.0