* [PATCH] xfrm: iptfs: fix runt reassembly panic from short inner tot_len
@ 2026-08-03 4:01 Henry Martin
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From: Henry Martin @ 2026-08-03 4:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev; +Cc: steffen.klassert, herbert, chopps, Henry Martin
When the start of an inner packet is split across two outer packets
such that fewer than 4 bytes land at the end of the first one,
__input_process_payload() saves those bytes as a runt and skips the
iplen/iphlen validation performed for in-place packets. When the
continuation packet arrives, iptfs_reassem_cont() only requires the
declared inner length to be >= sizeof(ra_runt) (6) before allocating
the reassembly skb with that attacker-controlled length.
However, __iptfs_iphlen() always returns the fixed minimum IP header
size (20 for IPv4, 40 for IPv6), so for an inner IPv4 tot_len in
[6, 19] the header-completion copy writes past the declared packet
length, and the subsequent "ipremain -= copylen" underflows to ~4GB,
leaving the payload copy length bounded only by blkoff (up to 64KB).
At runtime the skb_put() tailroom check turns this into
skb_over_panic(), i.e. an unprivileged kernel panic (DoS), reachable
locally via userns+netns IPTFS SAs and remotely against IPTFS VPN
gateways when the decrypted outer skb is linear (e.g. AF_PACKET taps,
tun/tap delivery).
Align the runt path with the normal path by requiring the declared
inner length to cover at least the IP header size. This also subsumes
the previous >= sizeof(ra_runt) check, since the minimum IP header
is always larger than the runt buffer.
This issue was found by the autokbug dynamic kernel fuzzer at
Tencent Yunding Lab.
Fixes: 075694765446 ("xfrm: iptfs: handle received fragmented inner packets")
Reported-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
index 597aedeac26eb..f543ae3b49b3c 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
@@ -820,8 +820,8 @@ static u32 iptfs_reassem_cont(struct xfrm_iptfs_data *xtfs, u64 seq,
* allocate an in progress skb
*/
ipremain = __iptfs_iplen(xtfs->ra_runt);
- if (ipremain < sizeof(xtfs->ra_runt)) {
- /* length has to be at least runtsize large */
+ if (ipremain < __iptfs_iphlen(xtfs->ra_runt)) {
+ /* length has to be at least the IP header size */
XFRM_INC_STATS(xs_net(xtfs->x),
LINUX_MIB_XFRMINIPTFSERROR);
goto abandon;
--
2.43.0
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