From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: mashiro.chen@mailbox.org
Cc: 'Simon Horman' <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
ben@decadent.org.uk, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: netrom: validate source address in nr_find_socket()
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:09:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260410160943.644081-1-horms@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260407171600.102988-3-mashiro.chen@mailbox.org>
From: 'Simon Horman' <horms@kernel.org>
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Full review at: https://sashiko.dev
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net: netrom: validate source address in nr_find_socket()
This commit adds a source address parameter to nr_find_socket() to validate
incoming frames against the socket's dest_addr. This prevents unauthenticated
injection of crafted NR_INFO frames into existing connections.
> diff --git a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
> index b816c56124ab8..1da32c52a1931 100644
> --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
> +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
[ ... ]
> @@ -219,7 +221,8 @@ static unsigned short nr_find_next_circuit(void)
> j = id % 256;
>
> if (i != 0 && j != 0) {
> - if ((sk=nr_find_socket(i, j)) == NULL)
> + sk = nr_find_socket(i, j, NULL);
> + if (!sk)
> break;
> sock_put(sk);
> }
This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but does the loop in
nr_find_next_circuit() lack a termination condition?
If all 65,025 valid (i, j) circuit IDs are in use, nr_find_socket() will
always return a socket. The loop will increment id indefinitely, wrap around
65535, and never break, potentially triggering a CPU lockup in softirq
context.
Additionally, since the circuit ID is managed globally, is there a race
condition during its allocation? Multiple threads could concurrently execute
nr_find_next_circuit() and circuit++, leading to identical circuit IDs being
assigned to different connections.
[ ... ]
> @@ -923,7 +926,7 @@ int nr_rx_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> if (frametype == NR_CONNREQ)
> sk = nr_find_peer(circuit_index, circuit_id, src);
> else
> - sk = nr_find_socket(circuit_index, circuit_id);
> + sk = nr_find_socket(circuit_index, circuit_id, src);
> }
>
> if (sk != NULL) {
This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but does nr_rx_frame() safely
access the socket buffer data?
It unconditionally accesses data up to skb->data[19], and for CONNREQ frames,
it copies 7 bytes from skb->data + 21. If the packet is shorter than 28 bytes,
could this cause an out-of-bounds read and leak adjacent kernel memory?
Furthermore, pskb_may_pull() is not called before these accesses.
Additionally, if an IP-over-NET/ROM packet is smaller than 20 bytes,
skb_pull() fails and is ignored, erroneously passing the unmodified packet
to the IP stack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-10 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-07 17:15 [PATCH 0/3] net: fix three security bugs in NET/ROM and ROSE stacks Mashiro Chen
2026-04-07 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: netrom: fix integer overflow in nr_queue_rx_frame() Mashiro Chen
2026-04-10 16:04 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-07 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: netrom: validate source address in nr_find_socket() Mashiro Chen
2026-04-10 16:09 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-04-07 17:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: rose: fix out-of-bounds read in rose_parse_ccitt() Mashiro Chen
2026-04-10 16:10 ` Simon Horman
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