From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65CAB823DD; Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774275401; cv=none; b=iXh6LZ3oRNZfhHi4BmXTv3tfeFFgkviwkq4BZdfeV5IEYRlGRh5piwoWCBFhvG5uC/o7CHNK7jkwEFx3aC5IxHQ6rrjm0RS6dN90/Adv7SWoXLAlho68Kk9yNIHMU9OYNVvutK72dUiKZOFrfBioszbYFNS5w95eLFrogTxwQuE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774275401; c=relaxed/simple; bh=+SeJSods1RsMBVxgN2dP07SPfLu8lQqQpo/XW80hbxQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=iqlyGVEEPZrhJzzQIJg7QQle22mB3zGvrWsvUnAF+Z9Zpt8aHAVhIitXAYCtJX+cEEl4Gg3tvyevQNqkkH9uOLwg4SllEaA/HmMsgmMVjycN1SwAcL9wOef5A5CszG87f8SsWWNF5dPx7PhDgPamC6S9ajolTuQmgB7YPaXDDp8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=Cs7bq/uH; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="Cs7bq/uH" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F28FBC4CEF7; Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:16:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1774275401; bh=+SeJSods1RsMBVxgN2dP07SPfLu8lQqQpo/XW80hbxQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Cs7bq/uHv08pjufTLG+E2miBgxSwehVoNmc/oedGFI4LBWT7MoocUb4MKU7q2BIVR OY+PMirl7ql7I76EUPRZAIgeQTyJWmrLM93QUiPMWeY5iKRZWJpEX//FUYJVpOub28 86PP51GGv3HKyuwhcxCFCYqWBjxY0PLNYADyZhO0= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Eric Dumazet , Weiming Shi , Paolo Abeni , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 6.12 085/460] net: prevent NULL deref in ip[6]tunnel_xmit() Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:41:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20260323134528.766166475@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260323134526.647552166@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260323134526.647552166@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit c38b8f5f791ecce13ab77e2257f8fd2444ba80f6 ] Blamed commit missed that both functions can be called with dev == NULL. Also add unlikely() hints for these conditions that only fuzzers can hit. Fixes: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet CC: Weiming Shi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312043908.2790803-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- include/net/ip6_tunnel.h | 10 ++++++---- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c | 10 ++++++---- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/net/ip6_tunnel.h b/include/net/ip6_tunnel.h index dfdb4dba5be8f..17913fca5445a 100644 --- a/include/net/ip6_tunnel.h +++ b/include/net/ip6_tunnel.h @@ -156,10 +156,12 @@ static inline void ip6tunnel_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, { int pkt_len, err; - if (dev_recursion_level() > IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT) { - net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s, fix it urgently!\n", - dev->name); - DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors); + if (unlikely(dev_recursion_level() > IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT)) { + if (dev) { + net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s, fix it urgently!\n", + dev->name); + DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors); + } kfree_skb(skb); return; } diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c index 53d02602c17a3..507f2f9ec400c 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c @@ -57,10 +57,12 @@ void iptunnel_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct rtable *rt, struct sk_buff *skb, struct iphdr *iph; int err; - if (dev_recursion_level() > IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT) { - net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s, fix it urgently!\n", - dev->name); - DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors); + if (unlikely(dev_recursion_level() > IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT)) { + if (dev) { + net_crit_ratelimited("Dead loop on virtual device %s, fix it urgently!\n", + dev->name); + DEV_STATS_INC(dev, tx_errors); + } ip_rt_put(rt); kfree_skb(skb); return; -- 2.51.0