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From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
	Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH nf] netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: check skb_dst before path-MTU clamping
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:30:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260418163057.2611503-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)

When TCPMSS with CLAMP_PMTU is used via nft_compat in a non-base
chain, par->hook_mask is set to 0, bypassing the checkentry hook
validation. The target can then run at PRE_ROUTING where skb_dst is
NULL, causing a null-ptr-deref in tcpmss_mangle_packet():

 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
 RIP: 0010:tcpmss_mangle_packet (include/net/dst.h:219 net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c:105)
  tcpmss_tg4 (net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c:202)
  nft_target_eval_xt (net/netfilter/nft_compat.c:87)
  nft_do_chain (net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:287)
  nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:623)

Check skb_dst() for NULL before calling dst_mtu().

Fixes: 493618a92c6a ("netfilter: nft_compat: fix hook validation for non-base chains")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c b/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c
index 116a885adb3c..79b5e475e23e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c
@@ -102,7 +102,12 @@ tcpmss_mangle_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (info->mss == XT_TCPMSS_CLAMP_PMTU) {
 		struct net *net = xt_net(par);
 		unsigned int in_mtu = tcpmss_reverse_mtu(net, skb, family);
-		unsigned int min_mtu = min(dst_mtu(skb_dst(skb)), in_mtu);
+		unsigned int min_mtu;
+
+		if (!skb_dst(skb))
+			return -1;
+
+		min_mtu = min(dst_mtu(skb_dst(skb)), in_mtu);
 
 		if (min_mtu <= minlen) {
 			net_err_ratelimited("unknown or invalid path-MTU (%u)\n",
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-18 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-18 16:30 Weiming Shi [this message]
2026-04-18 19:58 ` [PATCH nf] netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: check skb_dst before path-MTU clamping Florian Westphal
2026-04-19  8:00   ` Florian Westphal
2026-04-19 10:24   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-04-19 10:25   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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