From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: "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: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bestswngs@gmail.com, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net] mpls: fix NULL deref in mpls_valid_fib_dump_req() on CONFIG_INET=n
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:09:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260712220903.3131568-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
On CONFIG_INET=n, mpls_valid_fib_dump_req()'s local strict-check loop
enters the RTA_OIF arm on the index alone and calls nla_get_u32(tb[i]).
Since nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict() leaves tb[i] NULL for any omitted
attribute, a dump without RTA_OIF dereferences NULL and oopses.
Skip unset attributes before dispatching on the index, mirroring
ip_valid_fib_dump_req().
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
RIP: 0010:mpls_valid_fib_dump_req (net/mpls/af_mpls.c:2189)
Call Trace:
mpls_dump_routes (net/mpls/af_mpls.c:2236)
netlink_dump (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2331)
__netlink_dump_start (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2446)
rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7041)
netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556)
netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345)
netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900)
__sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:790)
____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2684)
___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2738)
__sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2770)
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
Fixes: 196cfebf8972 ("net/mpls: Handle kernel side filtering of route dumps")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
index ca504d9626cf..1ad07df89d5b 100644
--- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
+++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
@@ -2185,13 +2185,16 @@ static int mpls_valid_fib_dump_req(struct net *net, const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
for (i = 0; i <= RTA_MAX; ++i) {
int ifindex;
+ if (!tb[i])
+ continue;
+
if (i == RTA_OIF) {
ifindex = nla_get_u32(tb[i]);
filter->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
if (!filter->dev)
return -ENODEV;
filter->filter_set = 1;
- } else if (tb[i]) {
+ } else {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Unsupported attribute in dump request");
return -EINVAL;
}
--
2.43.0
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2026-07-12 22:09 Xiang Mei [this message]
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2026-07-11 11:50 [PATCH net] mpls: fix NULL deref in mpls_valid_fib_dump_req() on CONFIG_INET=n Weiming Shi
2026-07-11 16:56 ` David Ahern
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