From: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
To: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v5 0/2] amt: fix use-after-free of the skb head across pulls
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:19:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260711151934.2955226-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com> (raw)
Several AMT receive and transmit paths cache a pointer into the skb head
and then call a helper that can reallocate that head before the cached
pointer is used again, so the later access reads or writes freed memory.
Patch 1 walks every AMT path and, for each pointer used after a
reallocating call, either snapshots the value before the first pull or
re-derives the pointer after the last one.
Patch 2 is a smaller, separable hardening change: the three handlers
that rewrite the ethernet header do so in place without making the head
private, which corrupts a cloned skb (for example one held by a packet
tap). It adds skb_cow_head() before the rewrite, split out so the
use-after-free fix is not held up by discussion of the clone case.
Both patches build cleanly (x86_64, CONFIG_AMT, W=1) and are
checkpatch --strict clean.
Changes since v4:
- amt_update_handler(): also snapshot amtmu->nonce and
amtmu->response_mac before iptunnel_pull_header(), which can
reallocate the head for a GSO cloned skb; the tunnel-match loop read
both fields through the stale amtmu. This is the same class as the
query handler's response_mac snapshot and was the one remaining site
the v4 fix missed.
- Remove the explanatory comments added in v4; the reason for each
snapshot/re-derive is described in the commit message instead.
- Order the local variable declarations longest-to-shortest in the
handlers that gained locals (amt_membership_query_handler and
amt_update_handler).
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260707193243.3448201-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com/
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260626111917.802243-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260617123443.3586930-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com/
Michael Bommarito (2):
amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull
amt: make the head writable before rewriting the L2 header
drivers/net/amt.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
base-commit: 2c7c88a412aa6d09cd04b414211b4ef8553b5309
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2.53.0
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2026-07-11 15:19 Michael Bommarito [this message]
2026-07-11 15:19 ` [PATCH net v5 1/2] amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull Michael Bommarito
2026-07-11 15:19 ` [PATCH net v5 2/2] amt: make the head writable before rewriting the L2 header Michael Bommarito
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