From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: security@kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jv@jvosburgh.net, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, bestswngs@gmail.com, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast()
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:23:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260318232332.3528647-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
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 either double-consumed or freed.
Always clone the skb for every slave and unconditionally free the
original after the loop, removing the racy bond_is_last_slave()
optimization.
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>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 19 ++++++-------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 33f414d03ab91..8e57bee13e4ad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -5310,7 +5310,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t bond_xmit_broadcast(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct bonding *bond = netdev_priv(bond_dev);
struct bond_up_slave *slaves;
bool xmit_suc = false;
- bool skb_used = false;
int slaves_count, i;
if (all_slaves)
@@ -5326,24 +5325,18 @@ 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)) {
- skb2 = skb;
- skb_used = true;
- } else {
- skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!skb2) {
- net_err_ratelimited("%s: Error: %s: skb_clone() failed\n",
- bond_dev->name, __func__);
- continue;
- }
+ skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!skb2) {
+ net_err_ratelimited("%s: Error: %s: skb_clone() failed\n",
+ bond_dev->name, __func__);
+ continue;
}
if (bond_dev_queue_xmit(bond, skb2, slave->dev) == NETDEV_TX_OK)
xmit_suc = true;
}
- if (!skb_used)
- dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
if (xmit_suc)
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-18 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-18 23:23 Xiang Mei [this message]
2026-03-18 23:27 ` [PATCH net] net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast() Xiang Mei
2026-03-24 9:08 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-03-26 4:38 ` Xiang Mei
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