From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Jamie Nguyen <jamien@nvidia.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kerneljasonxing@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
horms@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] selftests: net: txtimestamp: fix out-of-bounds read in raw UDP checksum
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:38:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.21cdd31ffbfbd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027162945.2122306-1-jamien@nvidia.com>
Jamie Nguyen wrote:
> With -r (SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_UDP) the test writes only the UDP header and
> payload, and the kernel adds the IP header. get_udp_csum() still expects
> the IP source and destination addresses to directly precede the UDP
> header, and reads 2 * alen bytes before the start of the buffer: 8 bytes
> for IPv4, 32 bytes for IPv6.
>
> ASan reports a heap-buffer-overflow for both -4 -r and -6 -r. Without
> ASan the read usually goes unnoticed, but it faults when the buffer is
> the first chunk in the heap. That happens on Ubuntu 26.04, where the
> kselftest runner wraps the test in uutils stdbuf, and txtimestamp.sh
> fails with SIGSEGV on every run.
>
> Even without a crash, -r packets were sent with a checksum computed
> over unrelated heap memory, so their UDP checksum was invalid.
>
> Build the pseudo-header from the destination address and checksum only
> the UDP header and payload. -R and -P already write daddr as both the
> source and destination address, so their checksums are unchanged. With
> -r the kernel selects the source address, which equals daddr for the
> loopback addresses used by txtimestamp.sh.
>
> Fixes: b52354aa068e ("selftests: expand txtimestamp with ipv6 dgram + raw and pf_packet")
> Signed-off-by: Jamie Nguyen <jamien@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 2:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-27 16:29 [PATCH net] selftests: net: txtimestamp: fix out-of-bounds read in raw UDP checksum Jamie Nguyen
2026-10-28 2:38 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-10-28 5:30 ` Hangbin Liu
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