From: Dudu Lu <phx0fer@gmail.com>
To: hawk@kernel.org, ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net: page_pool: bound queue_idx before indexing dev->_rx[]
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:56:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021155611.68473-1-phx0fer@gmail.com> (raw)
page_pool_init() calls __netif_get_rx_queue(pool->slow.netdev,
pool->slow.queue_idx), which is a bare `dev->_rx + rxq` with no bound,
and then dereferences the result (rxq->mp_params.mp_priv / .mp_ops). A
queue_idx at or beyond real_num_rx_queues reads past the dev->_rx[]
allocation:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in page_pool_create_percpu+0xa74/0xafc
Read of size 8 at addr ffff000006587eb8 by task kworker/0:1/11
page_pool_create_percpu+0xa74/0xafc
page_pool_create+0x14/0x20
ppidx_work+0x2d8/0x34c [ppidx_probe]
queue_idx comes from the driver's page_pool_params, so validate it
against the device before using it to index the queue array.
Fixes: 0f9214046893 ("memory-provider: dmabuf devmem memory provider")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Dudu Lu <phx0fer@gmail.com>
---
Tested base
-----------
Detected on Linux 7.3-rc4 (commit 93f51579e7df), arm64 QEMU guest.
Re-checked against mainline f47d223627f8 (v7.3-341): the affected code
is unchanged between the two, so the bug is still present there.
Checked against linux-next next-20261021 (commit 9a482184d910): the
affected code is unchanged there as well, so the bug is still present in
linux-next too.
Reproducer status
-----------------
A reproducer was written and executed on an arm64 QEMU guest (KASAN); it
fires at the claimed sink. The reproducer source is not posted here per
Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst; it is available on request.
Triggering conditions
---------------------
queue_idx is supplied by the driver alongside PP_FLAG_ALLOW_UNREADABLE_NETMEM
(the gve, bnxt, bnge, fbnic and mlx5 rx paths all set both); it is the
driver's own rx queue index, so an in-tree driver passes a valid value.
page_pool_init() still indexes dev->_rx[] with it while only asserting that
the netdev lock is held, never checking it against real_num_rx_queues, so
the exported API trusts the caller for the bound. This is a sink-side
hardening fix for page_pool_create_percpu(); the QEMU guest used for the
reproducer has no such NIC, so the pool was created through a small module.
Notes
-----
Built and checkpatch-clean: this patch was applied on top of 7.3-rc4
(commit 93f51579e7df) and a full arm64 kernel (defconfig) was built with
it -- no new warnings or errors. scripts/checkpatch.pl reports 0 errors,
0 warnings.
net/core/page_pool.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c
index d7c88c0b67e5..87f14ae855e3 100644
--- a/net/core/page_pool.c
+++ b/net/core/page_pool.c
@@ -274,6 +274,15 @@ static int page_pool_init(struct page_pool *pool,
if (pool->slow.flags & PP_FLAG_ALLOW_UNREADABLE_NETMEM) {
netdev_assert_locked(pool->slow.netdev);
+
+ /* queue_idx indexes dev->_rx[]; reject a value the device
+ * cannot serve before dereferencing the queue.
+ */
+ if (pool->slow.queue_idx >= pool->slow.netdev->real_num_rx_queues) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto free_ptr_ring;
+ }
+
rxq = __netif_get_rx_queue(pool->slow.netdev,
pool->slow.queue_idx);
pool->mp_priv = rxq->mp_params.mp_priv;
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 15:56 Dudu Lu [this message]
2026-10-21 16:00 ` [PATCH net] net: page_pool: bound queue_idx before indexing dev->_rx[] netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-22 5:00 ` phx
2026-10-23 13:42 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-10-23 15:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-25 17:59 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
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