Re: [PATCH] net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 05:29:51PM +0000, Kevin Berry wrote:
> From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
> 
> commit 2884bf72fb8f03409e423397319205de48adca16 upstream.
> 
> bond_xmit_broadcast() reuses the original skb for the last slave
> (determined by bond_is_last_slave()) and clones it for others.
> Concurrent slave enslave/release can mutate the slave list during
> RCU-protected iteration, changing which slave is "last" mid-loop.
> This causes the original skb to be double-consumed (double-freed).
> 
> Replace the racy bond_is_last_slave() check with a simple index
> comparison (i + 1 == slaves_count) against the pre-snapshot slave
> count taken via READ_ONCE() before the loop.  This preserves the
> zero-copy optimization for the last slave while making the "last"
> determination stable against concurrent list mutations.
> 
> The UAF can trigger the following crash:
> 
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_clone
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff888100ef8d40 by task exploit/147
> 
> CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 147 Comm: exploit Not tainted 7.0.0-rc3+ #4 PREEMPTLAZY
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
>  dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123)
>  print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
>  kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597)
>  skb_clone (include/linux/skbuff.h:1724 include/linux/skbuff.h:1792 include/linux/skbuff.h:3396 net/core/skbuff.c:2108)
>  bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5334)
>  bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5567 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5593)
>  dev_hard_start_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:5325 include/linux/netdevice.h:5334 net/core/dev.c:3871 net/core/dev.c:3887)
>  __dev_queue_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:3601 net/core/dev.c:4838)
>  ip6_finish_output2 (include/net/neighbour.h:540 include/net/neighbour.h:554 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:136)
>  ip6_finish_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:208 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:219)
>  ip6_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:250)
>  ip6_send_skb (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1985)
>  udp_v6_send_skb (net/ipv6/udp.c:1442)
>  udpv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/udp.c:1733)
>  __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:730 net/socket.c:742 net/socket.c:2206)
>  __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2209)
>  do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
>  </TASK>
> 
> Allocated by task 147:
> 
> Freed by task 147:
> 
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888100ef8c80
>  which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 224
> The buggy address is located 192 bytes inside of
>  freed 224-byte region [ffff888100ef8c80, ffff888100ef8d60)
> 
> Memory state around the buggy address:
>  ffff888100ef8c00: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>  ffff888100ef8c80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> >ffff888100ef8d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
>                                                     ^
>  ffff888100ef8d80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>  ffff888100ef8e00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ==================================================================
> 
> Fixes: 4e5bd03ae346 ("net: bonding: fix bond_xmit_broadcast return value error bug")
> Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326075553.3960562-1-xmei5@asu.edu
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Berry <kpberry@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

What kernel tree(s) is this for?

thanks,

greg k-h