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From: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Kexin Sun <kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] netlink: fix out-of-bounds bitmap access clearing stale mc groups
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:38:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261013023859.3075601-1-bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL4WiipgL26xjM+0+wT-NUVx9ppjQEJj+oShdew-mbzrRVU=dA@mail.gmail.com>

netlink_realloc_groups() sizes nlk->groups to the number of groups
that exist at bind/ADD_MEMBERSHIP time.  When more multicast groups
are registered later (e.g. a new genl family), existing sockets keep
their smaller bitmap.

When clearing a multicast group of a departing family,
__netlink_clear_multicast_users() runs netlink_update_socket_mc() on
each socket on mc_list, which does test_bit()/__assign_bit() on
group - 1 with no regard to nlk->ngroups.  Skip groups that lie
beyond the socket's bitmap: such a socket could never have joined
them.  This is the same guard do_one_broadcast() already applies.

With in-tree families the overflow is only reachable on 32-bit
kernels: the ~54 dynamically allocated genl groups fit the initial
64-bit bitmap on 64-bit kernels but exceed the 32-bit one, so the
table can grow there, and a later module unload then touches bits
past the bitmap of stale sockets.

This issue was discovered by Tencent CodeBuddy Security.

Fixes: 84659eb529b3 ("[NETLIKN]: Allow removing multicast groups.")
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
---

v2: Correct the Fixes tag (the clear path was added by 84659eb529b3,
    not by the dynamic bitmap commit), drop Cc: stable and describe
    the actual reachability (32-bit kernels with in-tree families)
    instead of implying generic heap corruption.

 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 9fdf964224ab4..8cc655aa927f1 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1657,6 +1657,12 @@ static void netlink_update_socket_mc(struct netlink_sock *nlk,
 {
 	int old, new = !!is_new, subscriptions;
 
+	/* A socket whose bitmap predates this group can never be a member;
+	 * don't touch bits beyond its allocation.
+	 */
+	if (group - 1 >= nlk->ngroups)
+		return;
+
 	old = test_bit(group - 1, nlk->groups);
 	subscriptions = nlk->subscriptions - old + new;
 	__assign_bit(group - 1, nlk->groups, new);
-- 
2.43.7

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-13  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-10  7:25 [PATCH net] netlink: fix out-of-bounds bitmap access clearing stale mc groups Henry Martin
2026-10-10  7:29 ` netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-10  8:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-10-10  8:42   ` henry martin
2026-10-13  2:38   ` Henry Martin [this message]
2026-10-13  2:45     ` [PATCH net v2] " netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-14  2:40     ` netdev-bot+sashiko

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