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>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 19:25:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260203192509.682208-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
Yizhou Zhao reported that simply having one RAW socket on protocol
IPPROTO_RAW (255) was dangerous.
socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 255);
A malicious incoming ICMP packet can set the protocol field to 255
and match this socket, leading to FNHE cache changes.
inner = IP(src="192.168.2.1", dst="8.8.8.8", proto=255)/Raw("TEST")
pkt = IP(src="192.168.1.1", dst="192.168.2.1")/ICMP(type=3, code=4, nexthopmtu=576)/inner
"man 7 raw" states:
A protocol of IPPROTO_RAW implies enabled IP_HDRINCL and is able
to send any IP protocol that is specified in the passed header.
Receiving of all IP protocols via IPPROTO_RAW is not possible
using raw sockets.
Make sure we drop these malicious packets.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251109134600.292125-1-zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv4/icmp.c | 14 ++++++++++----
net/ipv6/icmp.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
index 4abbec2f47ef58242b686f411109494e40c8d752..4acbbc703e79807ba847a53954952f85dc325499 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
@@ -1031,16 +1031,22 @@ static void icmp_socket_deliver(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 info)
/* Checkin full IP header plus 8 bytes of protocol to
* avoid additional coding at protocol handlers.
*/
- if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, iph->ihl * 4 + 8)) {
- __ICMP_INC_STATS(dev_net_rcu(skb->dev), ICMP_MIB_INERRORS);
- return;
- }
+ if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, iph->ihl * 4 + 8))
+ goto out;
+
+ /* IPPROTO_RAW sockets are not supposed to receive anything. */
+ if (protocol == IPPROTO_RAW)
+ goto out;
raw_icmp_error(skb, protocol, info);
ipprot = rcu_dereference(inet_protos[protocol]);
if (ipprot && ipprot->err_handler)
ipprot->err_handler(skb, info);
+ return;
+
+out:
+ __ICMP_INC_STATS(dev_net_rcu(skb->dev), ICMP_MIB_INERRORS);
}
static bool icmp_tag_validation(int proto)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/icmp.c b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
index 9d37e7711bc2b8f12c5c2e24b76378c4f3bf401b..a77f3113ef23b6e42743600e7dab5b2e088cd5dd 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
@@ -1066,6 +1066,12 @@ enum skb_drop_reason icmpv6_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type,
if (reason != SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET)
goto out;
+ if (nexthdr == IPPROTO_RAW) {
+ /* Add a more specific reason later ? */
+ reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
/* BUGGG_FUTURE: we should try to parse exthdrs in this packet.
Without this we will not able f.e. to make source routed
pmtu discovery.
--
2.53.0.rc2.204.g2597b5adb4-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-03 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-03 19:25 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2026-02-03 19:36 ` [PATCH net] inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP David Ahern
2026-02-04 7:18 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-02-05 21:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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