From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Bingquan Chen <patzilla007@gmail.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10.y] net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in tpacket_snd()
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:07:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260425100711.3493958-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026042434-salad-scope-84d1@gregkh>
From: Bingquan Chen <patzilla007@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 2c054e17d9d41f1020376806c7f750834ced4dc5 ]
In tpacket_snd(), when PACKET_VNET_HDR is enabled, vnet_hdr points
directly into the mmap'd TX ring buffer shared with userspace. The
kernel validates the header via __packet_snd_vnet_parse() but then
re-reads all fields later in virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(). A concurrent
userspace thread can modify the vnet_hdr fields between validation
and use, bypassing all safety checks.
The non-TPACKET path (packet_snd()) already correctly copies vnet_hdr
to a stack-local variable. All other vnet_hdr consumers in the kernel
(tun.c, tap.c, virtio_net.c) also use stack copies. The TPACKET TX
path is the only caller of virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() that reads directly
from user-controlled shared memory.
Fix this by copying vnet_hdr from the mmap'd ring buffer to a
stack-local variable before validation and use, consistent with the
approach used in packet_snd() and all other callers.
Fixes: 1d036d25e560 ("packet: tpacket_snd gso and checksum offload")
Signed-off-by: Bingquan Chen <patzilla007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260418112006.78823-1-patzilla007@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[ replaced `vnet_hdr_sz` with `sizeof(vnet_hdr)` and `if (vnet_hdr_sz)` with `if (po->has_vnet_hdr)` ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/packet/af_packet.c | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 1c9b2d67c3ed4..1babbe7819e64 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2726,7 +2726,8 @@ static int tpacket_snd(struct packet_sock *po, struct msghdr *msg)
{
struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
struct net_device *dev;
- struct virtio_net_hdr *vnet_hdr = NULL;
+ struct virtio_net_hdr vnet_hdr;
+ bool has_vnet_hdr = false;
struct sockcm_cookie sockc;
__be16 proto;
int err, reserve = 0;
@@ -2826,16 +2827,20 @@ static int tpacket_snd(struct packet_sock *po, struct msghdr *msg)
hlen = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev);
tlen = dev->needed_tailroom;
if (po->has_vnet_hdr) {
- vnet_hdr = data;
- data += sizeof(*vnet_hdr);
- tp_len -= sizeof(*vnet_hdr);
- if (tp_len < 0 ||
- __packet_snd_vnet_parse(vnet_hdr, tp_len)) {
+ data += sizeof(vnet_hdr);
+ tp_len -= sizeof(vnet_hdr);
+ if (tp_len < 0) {
+ tp_len = -EINVAL;
+ goto tpacket_error;
+ }
+ memcpy(&vnet_hdr, data - sizeof(vnet_hdr), sizeof(vnet_hdr));
+ if (__packet_snd_vnet_parse(&vnet_hdr, tp_len)) {
tp_len = -EINVAL;
goto tpacket_error;
}
copylen = __virtio16_to_cpu(vio_le(),
- vnet_hdr->hdr_len);
+ vnet_hdr.hdr_len);
+ has_vnet_hdr = true;
}
copylen = max_t(int, copylen, dev->hard_header_len);
skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(&po->sk,
@@ -2872,12 +2877,12 @@ static int tpacket_snd(struct packet_sock *po, struct msghdr *msg)
}
}
- if (po->has_vnet_hdr) {
- if (virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, vnet_hdr, vio_le())) {
+ if (has_vnet_hdr) {
+ if (virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, &vnet_hdr, vio_le())) {
tp_len = -EINVAL;
goto tpacket_error;
}
- virtio_net_hdr_set_proto(skb, vnet_hdr);
+ virtio_net_hdr_set_proto(skb, &vnet_hdr);
}
skb->destructor = tpacket_destruct_skb;
--
2.53.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-25 10:07 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-24 9:50 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2026-04-25 10:07 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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