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From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>,
	Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
	Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: garp: reload skb header pointers after pskb_may_pull()
Date: Thu,  4 Jun 2026 15:19:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260604141925.237746-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)

garp_pdu_parse_attr() keeps a pointer into the skb linear area across
pskb_may_pull(skb, ga->len), and garp_pdu_parse_msg() dereferences gm
on every loop iteration even though the nested parse may pull again.
pskb_may_pull() can reallocate the skb head, which would leave those
pointers stale.

This is not reachable today: GARP PDUs arrive via the 802.2 LLC SAP
path, where llc_fixup_skb() already pulls and trims the whole payload
into the linear area, so the inner pulls never reallocate. Reload ga
after the pull and snapshot gm->attrtype into a local anyway, to harden
the parser and match the skb_header_pointer() discipline used by mrp.c.

No functional change.

Assisted-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
 net/802/garp.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/802/garp.c b/net/802/garp.c
index c7a39f298ad6..56b934ec1aae 100644
--- a/net/802/garp.c
+++ b/net/802/garp.c
@@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ static int garp_pdu_parse_attr(struct garp_applicant *app, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, ga->len))
 		return -1;
+	ga = (struct garp_attr_hdr *)skb->data;
 	skb_pull(skb, ga->len);
 	dlen = ga->len - sizeof(*ga);
 
@@ -492,6 +493,7 @@ static int garp_pdu_parse_attr(struct garp_applicant *app, struct sk_buff *skb,
 static int garp_pdu_parse_msg(struct garp_applicant *app, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	const struct garp_msg_hdr *gm;
+	u8 attrtype;
 
 	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*gm)))
 		return -1;
@@ -499,9 +501,10 @@ static int garp_pdu_parse_msg(struct garp_applicant *app, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (gm->attrtype == 0)
 		return -1;
 	skb_pull(skb, sizeof(*gm));
+	attrtype = gm->attrtype;
 
 	while (skb->len > 0) {
-		if (garp_pdu_parse_attr(app, skb, gm->attrtype) < 0)
+		if (garp_pdu_parse_attr(app, skb, attrtype) < 0)
 			return -1;
 		if (garp_pdu_parse_end_mark(skb) < 0)
 			break;
-- 
2.53.0


                 reply	other threads:[~2026-06-04 14:19 UTC|newest]

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