From: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@gmail.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@gmail.com>,
lvc-project@linuxtesting.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>, Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>,
Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6] ipv6: ndisc: fix NULL deref in accept_untracked_na()
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:08:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729090857.76269-1-alexevgmart@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
commit d186e942365acece7c56d39da05dd63bf95b280a upstream.
accept_untracked_na() re-fetches the inet6_dev with __in6_dev_get(dev)
and dereferences idev->cnf.accept_untracked_na without a NULL check,
even though its only caller ndisc_recv_na() already fetched and
NULL-checked idev for the same device.
Both reads of dev->ip6_ptr run in the same RCU read-side critical
section, but a concurrent addrconf_ifdown() can clear dev->ip6_ptr
between them: lowering the MTU below IPV6_MIN_MTU calls addrconf_ifdown()
without the synchronize_net() that orders the unregister path, so the
re-fetch returns NULL and oopses:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in ndisc_recv_na (net/ipv6/ndisc.c:974)
Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000364
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
ndisc_recv_na (net/ipv6/ndisc.c:974)
icmpv6_rcv (net/ipv6/icmp.c:1193)
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:479)
ip6_input_finish (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:534)
ip6_input (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:545)
ip6_mc_input (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:635)
ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351)
</IRQ>
It is reachable by an unprivileged user via a network namespace.
Pass the caller's already validated idev instead of re-fetching it; the
idev stays alive for the whole RCU critical section, so it is safe even
after dev->ip6_ptr has been cleared.
Fixes: aaa5f515b16b ("net: ipv6: new accept_untracked_na option to accept na only if in-network")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260617065512.2529757-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@gmail.com>
---
Backport fix for CVE-2026-64542
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index ee34831f5621..342e7066f765 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -973,10 +973,8 @@ static enum skb_drop_reason ndisc_recv_ns(struct sk_buff *skb)
return reason;
}
-static int accept_untracked_na(struct net_device *dev, struct in6_addr *saddr)
+static int accept_untracked_na(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct in6_addr *saddr)
{
- struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
-
switch (READ_ONCE(idev->cnf.accept_untracked_na)) {
case 0: /* Don't accept untracked na (absent in neighbor cache) */
return 0;
@@ -986,7 +984,7 @@ static int accept_untracked_na(struct net_device *dev, struct in6_addr *saddr)
* same subnet as an address configured on the interface that
* received the na
*/
- return !!ipv6_chk_prefix(saddr, dev);
+ return !!ipv6_chk_prefix(saddr, idev->dev);
default:
return 0;
}
@@ -1085,7 +1083,7 @@ static enum skb_drop_reason ndisc_recv_na(struct sk_buff *skb)
*/
new_state = msg->icmph.icmp6_solicited ? NUD_REACHABLE : NUD_STALE;
if (!neigh && lladdr && idev && idev->cnf.forwarding) {
- if (accept_untracked_na(dev, saddr)) {
+ if (accept_untracked_na(idev, saddr)) {
neigh = neigh_create(&nd_tbl, &msg->target, dev);
new_state = NUD_STALE;
}
--
2.43.0
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