From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Minh Nguyen <minhnguyen.080505@gmail.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y] net: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 09:57:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260605135738.973875-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026060441-bullfrog-dealer-0f27@gregkh>
From: Minh Nguyen <minhnguyen.080505@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 98d0912e9f841e5529a5b89a972805f34cb1c69d ]
pskb_carve_inside_header() and pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() both copy
the old skb_shared_info header into a new buffer via memcpy(), which
includes the destructor_arg pointer (uarg) for MSG_ZEROCOPY skbs.
Neither function calls net_zcopy_get() for the new shinfo, creating an
unaccounted holder: every skb_shared_info with destructor_arg set will
call skb_zcopy_clear() once when freed, but the corresponding
net_zcopy_get() was never called for the new copy. Repeated calls
drive uarg->refcnt to zero prematurely, freeing ubuf_info_msgzc while
TX skbs still hold live destructor_arg pointers.
KASAN reports use-after-free on a freed ubuf_info_msgzc:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_release_data+0x77b/0x810
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801574d3e8 by task poc/220
Call Trace:
skb_release_data+0x77b/0x810
kfree_skb_list_reason+0x13e/0x610
skb_release_data+0x4cd/0x810
sk_skb_reason_drop+0xf3/0x340
skb_queue_purge_reason+0x282/0x440
rds_tcp_inc_free+0x1e/0x30
rds_recvmsg+0x354/0x1780
__sys_recvmsg+0xdf/0x180
Allocated by task 219:
msg_zerocopy_realloc+0x157/0x7b0
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x2892/0x3ba0
Freed by task 219:
ip_recv_error+0x74a/0xb10
tcp_recvmsg+0x475/0x530
The skb consuming the late access still referenced the same uarg via
shinfo->destructor_arg copied by pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() without
a refcount bump. This has been verified to be reliably exploitable: a
working proof-of-concept achieves full root privilege escalation from
an unprivileged local user on a default kernel configuration.
The fix follows the pattern of pskb_expand_head() which has the same
memcpy/cloned structure. For pskb_carve_inside_header(), net_zcopy_get()
is placed after skb_orphan_frags() succeeds, so the orphan error path
needs no cleanup. For pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear(), net_zcopy_get() is
placed after all failure points and just before skb_release_data(), so
no error path needs cleanup at all -- matching pskb_expand_head() more
closely and avoiding the need for a balancing net_zcopy_put().
Fixes: 6fa01ccd8830 ("skbuff: Add pskb_extract() helper function")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-6
Signed-off-by: Minh Nguyen <minhnguyen.080505@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526041240.329462-1-minhnguyen.080505@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index a8d09eff26f11c..d363d2f6f576c1 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -6256,6 +6256,8 @@ static int pskb_carve_inside_header(struct sk_buff *skb, const u32 off,
kfree(data);
return -ENOMEM;
}
+ if (skb_zcopy(skb))
+ net_zcopy_get(skb_zcopy(skb));
for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
skb_frag_ref(skb, i);
if (skb_has_frag_list(skb))
@@ -6404,6 +6406,8 @@ static int pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear(struct sk_buff *skb, const u32 off,
kfree(data);
return -ENOMEM;
}
+ if (skb_zcopy(skb))
+ net_zcopy_get(skb_zcopy(skb));
skb_release_data(skb);
skb->head = data;
--
2.53.0
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2026-06-04 10:29 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree gregkh
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