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From: Roshan Kumar <roshaen09@gmail.com>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Christian Hopps <chopps@labn.net>,
	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roshan Kumar <roshaen09@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: iptfs: fix stack OOB read in iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk()
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:56:08 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260728052608.2898018-1-roshaen09@gmail.com> (raw)

iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk() advances to the fragment containing @offset
with an unbounded loop:

	while (offset >= walk->past + walk->frags[walk->fragi].len)
		walk->past += walk->frags[walk->fragi++].len;

walk->fragi is advanced and walk->frags[walk->fragi] is dereferenced
without ever checking fragi against walk->nr_frags. When the requested
offset is at or beyond the total length spanned by the walk's fragments,
fragi runs past nr_frags and off the end of the fixed-size on-stack
frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1] array, reading out-of-bounds stack memory.

The two callers behave differently: iptfs_skb_add_frags() already guards
against this with

	if (!walk->nr_frags ||
	    offset >= walk->total + walk->initial_offset)
		return len;

but iptfs_skb_can_add_frags() has no such guard and calls
iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk() unconditionally, so it performs the
out-of-range walk. Its own "fragi < walk->nr_frags" bound check runs only
afterwards, too late to prevent the read.

This is reachable from the receive path: a crafted IP-TFS (AGGFRAG)
payload delivered to an IPTFS SA drives iptfs_reassem_cont() ->
iptfs_skb_can_add_frags() with an offset past the fragment total, e.g.:

  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk+0x235/0x250
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff888008ad7210 by task repro/345
   iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk+0x235/0x250 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:392
   iptfs_skb_can_add_frags+0x155/0x310  net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:420
   iptfs_reassem_cont+0xcf8/0x1140      net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:902
   iptfs_input_ordered+0x552/0x670      net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:1280
   iptfs_input+0x3d6/0xde0              net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:1741
   xfrm_input+0x282f/0x6140             net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c:700
   xfrm4_esp_rcv+0x93/0x120             net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c:104
   ip_rcv+0x278/0x2d0                   net/ipv4/ip_input.c:612

Give iptfs_skb_can_add_frags() the same up-front guard that
iptfs_skb_add_frags() already has, so the walk is never entered with an
out-of-range offset. When it triggers, the caller falls back to the
existing linearize-and-copy path, which is safe.

Fixes: 5f2b6a909574 ("xfrm: iptfs: add skb-fragment sharing code")
Reported-by: Roshan Kumar <roshaen09@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Roshan Kumar <roshaen09@gmail.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
index 597aedeac..2ce15c472 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
@@ -416,6 +416,14 @@ static bool iptfs_skb_can_add_frags(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (skb_has_frag_list(skb) || skb->pp_recycle != walk->pp_recycle)
 		return false;
 
+	/* Reject an @offset that is at or beyond the end of the walk's data
+	 * before calling iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk(), whose fragment-advance
+	 * loop is otherwise unbounded and would index past walk->frags[].
+	 * This mirrors the guard already present in iptfs_skb_add_frags().
+	 */
+	if (!walk->nr_frags || offset >= walk->total + walk->initial_offset)
+		return false;
+
 	/* Make offset relative to current frag after setting that */
 	offset = iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk(walk, offset);
 
-- 
2.43.0


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