From: "Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
"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>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com,
tgopinath@linux.microsoft.com, kys@microsoft.com,
"Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2] netfilter: bridge: fix stale prevhdr pointer in br_ip6_fragment()
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 18:11:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260708181150.3944015-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
br_ip6_fragment() gets prevhdr, a pointer into the skb head, from
ip6_find_1stfragopt(), then calls skb_checksum_help(). For a cloned skb
skb_checksum_help() reallocates the head via pskb_expand_head(), leaving
prevhdr dangling. It is later dereferenced in ip6_frag_next(), causing a
use-after-free write.
Save prevhdr's offset before skb_checksum_help() and recompute it after,
like commit ef0efcd3bd3f ("ipv6: Fix dangling pointer when ipv6
fragment").
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ip6_frag_next (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:857)
Write of size 1 at addr ffff888013ff5016 by task exploit/141
Call Trace:
...
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
ip6_frag_next (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:857)
br_ip6_fragment (net/ipv6/netfilter.c:212)
nf_ct_bridge_post (net/bridge/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bridge.c:407)
nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)
br_forward_finish (net/bridge/br_forward.c:66)
__br_forward (net/bridge/br_forward.c:115)
maybe_deliver (net/bridge/br_forward.c:191)
br_flood (net/bridge/br_forward.c:245)
br_handle_frame_finish (net/bridge/br_input.c:229)
br_handle_frame (net/bridge/br_input.c:442)
...
packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3114)
...
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Fixes: 764dd163ac92 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack_bridge: add support for IPv6")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
net/ipv6/netfilter.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
index 6d80f85e55fa..a7025ec87035 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ int br_ip6_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
ktime_t tstamp = skb->tstamp;
struct ip6_frag_state state;
u8 *prevhdr, nexthdr = 0;
- unsigned int mtu, hlen;
+ unsigned int mtu, hlen, nexthdr_offset;
int hroom, err = 0;
__be32 frag_id;
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ int br_ip6_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
goto blackhole;
hlen = err;
nexthdr = *prevhdr;
+ nexthdr_offset = prevhdr - skb_network_header(skb);
mtu = skb->dev->mtu;
if (frag_max_size > mtu ||
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ int br_ip6_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
(err = skb_checksum_help(skb)))
goto blackhole;
+ prevhdr = skb_network_header(skb) + nexthdr_offset;
hroom = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(skb->dev);
if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
unsigned int first_len = skb_pagelen(skb);
--
2.43.0
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2026-07-08 18:11 Xiang Mei (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-07-17 9:30 ` [PATCH net v2] netfilter: bridge: fix stale prevhdr pointer in br_ip6_fragment() patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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