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From: Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, dsahern@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
	kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
	idosch@nvidia.com, justin.iurman@gmail.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] ipv6: ioam: refresh hdr pointer before ioam6_event()
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 14:42:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260520124242.32320-1-justin.iurman@gmail.com> (raw)

Reported by Sashiko:

In ipv6_hop_ioam(), the hdr pointer is initialized to point into the
skb's linear data buffer. Later, the code calls skb_ensure_writable(),
which might reallocate the buffer:

	if (skb_ensure_writable(skb, optoff + 2 + hdr->opt_len))
		goto drop;

	/* Trace pointer may have changed */
	trace = (struct ioam6_trace_hdr *)(skb_network_header(skb)
					   + optoff + sizeof(*hdr));

	ioam6_fill_trace_data(skb, ns, trace, true);

	ioam6_event(IOAM6_EVENT_TRACE, dev_net(skb->dev),
		    GFP_ATOMIC, (void *)trace, hdr->opt_len - 2);

If the skb is cloned or lacks sufficient linear headroom,
skb_ensure_writable() will invoke pskb_expand_head(), which reallocates
the skb's data buffer and frees the old one, invalidating pointers to
it. While the code recalculates the trace pointer immediately after the
call to skb_ensure_writable(), it fails to recalculate the hdr pointer.

This patch fixes the above by recalculating the hdr pointer before
passing hdr->opt_len to ioam6_event(), so that we avoid any UaF.

Fixes: f655c78d6225 ("net: exthdrs: ioam6: send trace event")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@gmail.com>
---
 net/ipv6/exthdrs.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
index 47c5502a34a2..2f991c974395 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
@@ -967,8 +967,8 @@ static bool ipv6_hop_ioam(struct sk_buff *skb, int optoff)
 			goto drop;
 
 		/* Trace pointer may have changed */
-		trace = (struct ioam6_trace_hdr *)(skb_network_header(skb)
-						   + optoff + sizeof(*hdr));
+		hdr = (struct ioam6_hdr *)(skb_network_header(skb) + optoff);
+		trace = (struct ioam6_trace_hdr *)((u8 *)hdr + sizeof(*hdr));
 
 		ioam6_fill_trace_data(skb, ns, trace, true);
 
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-20 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-20 12:42 Justin Iurman [this message]
2026-05-20 20:06 ` [PATCH net] ipv6: ioam: refresh hdr pointer before ioam6_event() Ido Schimmel
2026-05-21 15:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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