From: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] ip: skip IPv4 cmsgs for non-IPv4 packets
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:19:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825221922.85651-1-4ncienth@gmail.com> (raw)
IPV6_ADDRFORM can convert an IPv6 UDP socket while a native IPv6 packet
is still queued for reception. The converted socket then receives the
packet through udp_recvmsg(), which passes it to ip_cmsg_recv_offset() as
if it were IPv4.
This makes the IPv4 ancillary-data code interpret inet6_skb_parm as
inet_skb_parm. In particular, IP_RETOPTS can take the IPv6 lastopt and
nhoff offsets as an IPv4 option length and RR offset. A destination
options header can then make __ip_options_echo() copy more than the
40-byte stack option buffer.
KASAN reported a 152-byte write on 3/3 fresh v6.12.105 boots and 3/3
fresh v7.2 boots. A production-shaped v6.12.105 build instead reached a
hardened-usercopy BUG followed by a fatal-exception panic on 3/3 boots.
Check the skb protocol before parsing SOL_IP control messages. This
preserves the queued payload while omitting incompatible ancillary data,
and also protects callers processing a stale non-IPv4 error-queue skb.
With this change the trigger returned its payload without a control
message or a target KASAN report on 3/3 fresh boots; both controls passed.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index a55ef327ec932c..24cb74c3d62025 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/ip.h>
#include <linux/icmp.h>
+#include <linux/if_ether.h>
#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -171,6 +172,9 @@ void ip_cmsg_recv_offset(struct msghdr *msg, struct sock *sk,
{
unsigned long flags = inet_cmsg_flags(inet_sk(sk));
+ if (unlikely(skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_IP)))
+ return;
+
if (!flags)
return;
--
2.54.0
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