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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	syzbot+58b44a770a1585795351@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH net] arp: do not assume dev_hard_header() does not change skb->head
Date: Wed,  7 Jan 2026 21:22:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260107212250.384552-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)

arp_create() is the only dev_hard_header() caller
making assumption about skb->head being unchanged.

A recent commit broke this assumption.

Initialize @arp pointer after dev_hard_header() call.

Fixes: db5b4e39c4e6 ("ip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust")
Reported-by: syzbot+58b44a770a1585795351@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/arp.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index 7f3863daaa407624359e8309cf9d661e1cdb03ac..c8c3e1713c0ede6dee1e4ae795a66d26bb534c43 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ struct sk_buff *arp_create(int type, int ptype, __be32 dest_ip,
 
 	skb_reserve(skb, hlen);
 	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
-	arp = skb_put(skb, arp_hdr_len(dev));
+	skb_put(skb, arp_hdr_len(dev));
 	skb->dev = dev;
 	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_ARP);
 	if (!src_hw)
@@ -572,12 +572,13 @@ struct sk_buff *arp_create(int type, int ptype, __be32 dest_ip,
 	if (!dest_hw)
 		dest_hw = dev->broadcast;
 
-	/*
-	 *	Fill the device header for the ARP frame
+	/* Fill the device header for the ARP frame.
+	 * Note: skb->head can be changed.
 	 */
 	if (dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ptype, dest_hw, src_hw, skb->len) < 0)
 		goto out;
 
+	arp = arp_hdr(skb);
 	/*
 	 * Fill out the arp protocol part.
 	 *
-- 
2.52.0.351.gbe84eed79e-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2026-01-07 21:22 UTC|newest]

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2026-01-07 21:22 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-01-08 17:10 ` [PATCH net] arp: do not assume dev_hard_header() does not change skb->head patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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