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Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:18:57 -0700 From: Stanislav Fomichev To: Jason Xing Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, bjorn@kernel.org, magnus.karlsson@intel.com, maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com, jonathan.lemon@gmail.com, sdf@fomichev.me, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, hawk@kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com, horms@kernel.org, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jason Xing Subject: Re: [PATCH net v5] xsk: cache csum_start/csum_offset to fix TOCTOU in xsk_skb_metadata() Message-ID: References: <20260530042630.80626-1-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260530042630.80626-1-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com> On 05/30, Jason Xing wrote: > From: Jason Xing > > The TX metadata area resides in the UMEM buffer which is memory-mapped > and concurrently writable by userspace. In xsk_skb_metadata(), > csum_start and csum_offset are read from shared memory for bounds > validation, then read again for skb assignment. A malicious userspace > application can race to overwrite these values between the two reads, > bypassing the bounds check and causing out-of-bounds memory access > during checksum computation in the transmit path. > > Fix this by reading csum_start and csum_offset into local variables > once, then using the local copies for both validation and assignment. > > Note that other metadata fields (flags, launch_time) and the cached > csum fields may be mutually inconsistent due to concurrent userspace > writes, but this is benign: the only security-critical invariant is > that each field's validated value is the same one used, which local > caching guarantees. > > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260503200927.73EA1C2BCB4@smtp.kernel.org/ > Fixes: 48eb03dd2630 ("xsk: Add TX timestamp and TX checksum offload support") > Reviewed-by: Maciej Fijalkowski > Signed-off-by: Jason Xing Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev