From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
<subash.a.kasiviswanathan@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Sean Tranchetti <sean.tranchetti@oss.qualcomm.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,
co+4638111fe2a12980@bugs.sh, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] net: qualcomm: rmnet: restore skb->dev on deaggregated frames
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:52:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820195240.1631458-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
rmnet_map_deaggregate() allocates each sub-frame with alloc_skb() and
leaves skb->dev NULL. __rmnet_map_ingress_handler() assigns
skb->dev = ep->egress_dev only on the data path, but a MAP command frame
is dispatched to rmnet_map_command() before that, so rmnet_map_send_ack()
runs netif_tx_lock(skb->dev) on a NULL device. An unprivileged user
reaches this by unsharing a user+net namespace, creating an rmnet link
over a tap device with INGRESS_DEAGGREGATION and INGRESS_MAP_COMMANDS,
and writing an aggregated frame carrying a flow-control command to the
tap fd.
Restore the assignment dropped by 378e25357ac7, so every skb leaving
rmnet_map_deaggregate() has a valid device.
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:158)
Write of size 4 at addr 00000000000004b4 by task exploit/144
Call Trace:
_raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:158)
netif_tx_lock (net/sched/sch_generic.c:497)
rmnet_map_command (drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_command.c:67)
rmnet_rx_handler (drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c:125)
__netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:6103)
...
__netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6214)
netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6474)
tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1966)
tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2012)
vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:687)
ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:739)
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 in interrupt
Fixes: 378e25357ac7 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Remove unnecessary device assignment")
Reported-by: co+4638111fe2a12980@bugs.sh
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ijg79FFMfIvKJbivdJEKvTO90Q9dTvyBkJck@bugs.sh/T/#u
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
v2: assign in rmnet_map_deaggregate() instead of rmnet_map_command(),
thank @Eric Dumazet.
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c
index 305ae15ae8f3..e6f48dc9fe64 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c
@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ struct sk_buff *rmnet_map_deaggregate(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (!skbn)
return NULL;
+ skbn->dev = skb->dev;
skb_reserve(skbn, RMNET_MAP_DEAGGR_HEADROOM);
skb_put(skbn, packet_len);
memcpy(skbn->data, skb->data, packet_len);
--
2.43.0
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