From: Qihang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v4] xfrm: interface: validate the IP header on xmit
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:41:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260923084123.10734-1-q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com> (raw)
Packets injected into an xfrm interface (e.g. AF_PACKET on an xfrmi
device) reach the xfrm output path without IP header validation, but
xfrm4_transport_output() uses iph->ihl for __skb_pull() and memmove()
and expects the header to be valid.
vti_tunnel_xmit() already calls pskb_inet_may_pull() before handing
packets to the xfrm output path. Do the same in xfrmi_xmit() and
perform the header checks ip_rcv_core()/ip6_rcv_core() do on entry
to the IP stack: reject wrong IP versions and malformed IPv4 header
lengths.
Fixes: f203b76d7809 ("xfrm: Add virtual xfrm interfaces")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Qihang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com>
---
Changes since v3: also check the IP version of both families, like
ip_rcv_core()/ip6_rcv_core() do (Herbert Xu).
net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c
index 688306bf62c5..9835fbe63ccb 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c
@@ -531,8 +531,13 @@ static netdev_tx_t xfrmi_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
memset(&fl, 0, sizeof(fl));
+ if (!pskb_inet_may_pull(skb))
+ goto tx_err;
+
switch (skb->protocol) {
case htons(ETH_P_IPV6):
+ if (ipv6_hdr(skb)->version != 6)
+ goto tx_err;
memset(IP6CB(skb), 0, sizeof(*IP6CB(skb)));
xfrm_decode_session(dev_net(dev), skb, &fl, AF_INET6);
if (!dst) {
@@ -548,6 +553,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t xfrmi_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
}
break;
case htons(ETH_P_IP):
+ if (ip_hdr(skb)->version != 4 || ip_hdr(skb)->ihl < 5 ||
+ !pskb_network_may_pull(skb, ip_hdr(skb)->ihl * 4))
+ goto tx_err;
memset(IPCB(skb), 0, sizeof(*IPCB(skb)));
xfrm_decode_session(dev_net(dev), skb, &fl, AF_INET);
if (!dst) {
--
2.46.0
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2026-10-02 7:34 ` [PATCH net v4] xfrm: interface: validate the IP header on xmit Steffen Klassert
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