kernel/linux.git/net/core/skbuff.c, branch v6.1.176

net: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs

2026-06-19T11:37:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1ee90b77b727df903033db873c75caac5c27ec98 ] skb_is_err_queue() treats PACKET_OUTGOING as the sole marker for an skb from sk_error_queue. That assumption is not true for AF_PACKET sockets: outgoing packet taps are also delivered to packet sockets with skb->pkt_type == PACKET_OUTGOING, but their skb->cb is owned by AF_PACKET instead of struct sock_exterr_skb. If such an skb is received with timestamping enabled, the generic timestamp cmsg path can read AF_PACKET control-buffer state as sock_exterr_skb::opt_stats. With SO_RXQ_OVFL enabled, the packet drop counter overlaps opt_stats. An odd drop count makes the path emit SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS with skb->len and skb->data. For non-linear skbs this copies past the linear head and can trigger hardened usercopy or disclose adjacent heap contents. Keep skb_is_err_queue() local to net/socket.c, but make it verify that the PACKET_OUTGOING marker is paired with the sock_rmem_free destructor installed by sock_queue_err_skb(). AF_PACKET receive skbs use normal receive ownership and no longer pass as error-queue skbs, while legitimate sk_error_queue entries keep the PACKET_OUTGOING marker and sock_rmem_free ownership. Fixes: 8605330aac5a ("tcp: fix SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS for normal skbs") Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607021819.49698-1-kylebot@openai.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers

2026-06-19T11:37:10+00:00

commit 98d0912e9f841e5529a5b89a972805f34cb1c69d upstream. 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 Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526041240.329462-1-minhnguyen.080505@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni [Salvatore Bonaccorso: Backport for context changes, as 6.1.y has not 511a3eda2f8d ("net: dropreason: propagate drop_reason to skb_release_data()")]. Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: skbuff: fix pskb_carve leaking zcopy pages

2026-06-19T11:36:55+00:00

[ Upstream commit ff6e798c2eac3ebd0501ad7e796f583fab928de8 ] When SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS is set, frag pages are not refcounted but their lifetime is controlled by the attached ubuf_info. To make a copy of the skb_shared_info, we either should clear the flag and reference the frags, or keep the flag and have frags unreferenced. pskb_carve_inside_header() and pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() don't follow the rule and thus can leak page references. Let's clear SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS from the original skb to fix it. It's the simplest way to address it, but there are more performant ways to do that if it ever becomes a problem. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260523085809.26331-1-nvminh232@clc.fitus.edu.vn/ Fixes: 753f1ca4e1e50 ("net: introduce managed frags infrastructure") Reported-by: Minh Nguyen Reported-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1e2086aa69217d7f9c8da3d38f5be7160f1b4cd1.1779993185.git.asml.silence@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers

2026-05-23T11:41:18+00:00

commit 48f6a5356a33dd78e7144ae1faef95ffc990aae0 upstream. Two frag-transfer helpers (__pskb_copy_fclone() and skb_shift()) fail to propagate the SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG bit in skb_shinfo()->flags when moving frags from source to destination. __pskb_copy_fclone() defers the rest of the shinfo metadata to skb_copy_header() after copying frag descriptors, but that helper only carries over gso_{size,segs, type} and never touches skb_shinfo()->flags; skb_shift() moves frag descriptors directly and leaves flags untouched. As a result, the destination skb keeps a reference to the same externally-owned or page-cache-backed pages while reporting skb_has_shared_frag() as false. The mismatch is harmful in any in-place writer that uses skb_has_shared_frag() to decide whether shared pages must be detoured through skb_cow_data(). ESP input is one such writer (esp4.c, esp6.c), and a single nft 'dup to ' rule -- or any other nf_dup_ipv4() / xt_TEE caller -- is enough to land a pskb_copy()'d skb in esp_input() with the marker stripped, letting an unprivileged user write into the page cache of a root-owned read-only file via authencesn-ESN stray writes. Set SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG on the destination whenever frag descriptors were actually moved from the source. skb_copy() and skb_copy_expand() share skb_copy_header() too but linearize all paged data into freshly allocated head storage and emerge with nr_frags == 0, so skb_has_shared_frag() returns false on its own; they need no change. The same omission exists in skb_gro_receive() and skb_gro_receive_list(). The former moves the incoming skb's frag descriptors into the accumulator's last sub-skb via two paths (a direct frag-move loop and the head_frag + memcpy path); the latter chains the incoming skb whole onto p's frag_list. Downstream skb_segment() reads only skb_shinfo(p)->flags, and skb_segment_list() reuses each sub-skb's shinfo as the nskb -- both p and lp must carry the marker. The same omission also exists in tcp_clone_payload(), which builds an MTU probe skb by moving frag descriptors from skbs on sk_write_queue into a freshly allocated nskb. The helper falls into the same family and warrants the same fix for consistency; no TCP TX-side in-place writer is currently known to reach a user page through this gap, but a future consumer depending on the marker would regress silently. The same omission exists in skb_segment(): the per-iteration flag merge takes only head_skb's flag, and the inner switch that rebinds frag_skb to list_skb on head_skb-frags exhaustion does not fold the new frag_skb's flag into nskb. Fold frag_skb's flag at both sites so segments drawing frags from frag_list members carry the marker. Fixes: cef401de7be8 ("net: fix possible wrong checksum generation") Fixes: f4c50a4034e6 ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags") Suggested-by: Sabrina Dubroca Suggested-by: Sultan Alsawaf Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings Suggested-by: Lin Ma Suggested-by: Jingguo Tan Suggested-by: Aaron Esau Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim Tested-by: Rajat Gupta Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ageeJfJHwgzmKXbh@v4bel Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni [bwh: Backported to 6.1: - skb_gro_receive_list() is in net/ipv4/udp_offload.c here - Drop change to tcp_clone_payload(), which does not exist here ] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: skbuff: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing

2026-05-23T11:41:18+00:00

commit f84eca5817390257cef78013d0112481c503b4a3 upstream. skb_try_coalesce() can attach paged frags from @from to @to. If @from has SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set, the resulting @to skb can contain the same externally-owned or page-cache-backed frags, but the shared-frag marker is currently lost. That breaks the invariant relied on by later in-place writers. In particular, ESP input checks skb_has_shared_frag() before deciding whether an uncloned nonlinear skb can skip skb_cow_data(). If TCP receive coalescing has moved shared frags into an unmarked skb, ESP can see skb_has_shared_frag() as false and decrypt in place over page-cache backed frags. Propagate SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG when skb_try_coalesce() transfers paged frags. The tailroom copy path does not need the marker because it copies bytes into @to's linear data rather than transferring frag descriptors. Fixes: cef401de7be8 ("net: fix possible wrong checksum generation") Fixes: f4c50a4034e6 ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags") Signed-off-by: William Bowling Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Tested-by: Jiayuan Chen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260513041635.1289541-1-vakzz@zellic.io Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets

2026-01-17T15:39:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 238e03d0466239410b72294b79494e43d4fabe77 ] When skb_segment_list() is called during packet forwarding, it handles packets that were aggregated by the GRO engine. Historically, the segmentation logic in skb_segment_list assumes that individual segments are split from a parent SKB and may need to carry their own socket memory accounting. Accordingly, the code transfers truesize from the parent to the newly created segments. Prior to commit ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer"), this truesize subtraction in skb_segment_list() was valid because fragments still carry a reference to the original socket. However, commit ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer") changed this behavior by ensuring that fraglist entries are explicitly orphaned (skb->sk = NULL) to prevent illegal orphaning later in the stack. This change meant that the entire socket memory charge remained with the head SKB, but the corresponding accounting logic in skb_segment_list() was never updated. As a result, the current code unconditionally adds each fragment's truesize to delta_truesize and subtracts it from the parent SKB. Since the fragments are no longer charged to the socket, this subtraction results in an effective under-count of memory when the head is freed. This causes sk_wmem_alloc to remain non-zero, preventing socket destruction and leading to a persistent memory leak. The leak can be observed via KMEMLEAK when tearing down the networking environment: unreferenced object 0xffff8881e6eb9100 (size 2048): comm "ping", pid 6720, jiffies 4295492526 backtrace: kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x5c6/0x800 sk_prot_alloc+0x5b/0x220 sk_alloc+0x35/0xa00 inet6_create.part.0+0x303/0x10d0 __sock_create+0x248/0x640 __sys_socket+0x11b/0x1d0 Since skb_segment_list() is exclusively used for SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST packets constructed by GRO, the truesize adjustment is removed. The call to skb_release_head_state() must be preserved. As documented in commit cf673ed0e057 ("net: fix fraglist segmentation reference count leak"), it is still required to correctly drop references to SKB extensions that may be overwritten during __copy_skb_header(). Fixes: ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer") Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260104213101.352887-1-mheib@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: Always clear ipvs_property flag in skb_scrub_packet()

2025-03-07T15:56:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit de2c211868b9424f9aa9b3432c4430825bafb41b ] We found an issue when using bpf_redirect with ipvs NAT mode after commit ff70202b2d1a ("dev_forward_skb: do not scrub skb mark within the same name space"). Particularly, we use bpf_redirect to return the skb directly back to the netif it comes from, i.e., xnet is false in skb_scrub_packet(), and then ipvs_property is preserved and SNAT is skipped in the rx path. ipvs_property has been already cleared when netns is changed in commit 2b5ec1a5f973 ("netfilter/ipvs: clear ipvs_property flag when SKB net namespace changed"). This patch just clears it in spite of netns. Fixes: 2b5ec1a5f973 ("netfilter/ipvs: clear ipvs_property flag when SKB net namespace changed") Signed-off-by: Philo Lu Acked-by: Julian Anastasov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250222033518.126087-1-lulie@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: dsa: tag_ocelot: call only the relevant portion of __skb_vlan_pop() on TX

2024-08-29T15:30:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0bcf2e4aca6c29a07555b713f2fb461dc38d5977 ] ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() calls __skb_vlan_pop() as the most appropriate helper I could find which strips away a VLAN header. That's all I need it to do, but __skb_vlan_pop() has more logic, which will become incompatible with the future revert of commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in dev_start_xmit()"). Namely, it performs a sanity check on skb_mac_header(), which will stop being set after the above revert, so it will return an error instead of removing the VLAN tag. ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() gets called in 2 circumstances: (1) the port is under a VLAN-aware bridge and the bridge sends VLAN-tagged packets (2) the port is under a VLAN-aware bridge and somebody else (an 8021q upper) sends VLAN-tagged packets (using a VID that isn't in the bridge vlan tables) In case (1), there is actually no bug to defend against, because br_dev_xmit() calls skb_reset_mac_header() and things continue to work. However, in case (2), illustrated using the commands below, it can be seen that our intervention is needed, since __skb_vlan_pop() complains: $ ip link add br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 && ip link set br0 up $ ip link set $eth master br0 && ip link set $eth up $ ip link add link $eth name $eth.100 type vlan id 100 && ip link set $eth.100 up $ ip addr add 192.168.100.1/24 dev $eth.100 I could fend off the checks in __skb_vlan_pop() with some skb_mac_header_was_set() calls, but seeing how few callers of __skb_vlan_pop() there are from TX paths, that seems rather unproductive. As an alternative solution, extract the bare minimum logic to strip a VLAN header, and move it to a new helper named vlan_remove_tag(), close to the definition of vlan_insert_tag(). Document it appropriately and make ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() call this smaller helper instead. Seeing that it doesn't appear illegal to test skb->protocol in the TX path, I guess it would be a good for vlan_remove_tag() to also absorb the vlan_set_encap_proto() function call. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: 67c3ca2c5cfe ("net: mscc: ocelot: use ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() also for FDMA and register injection") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: core: reject skb_copy(_expand) for fraglist GSO skbs

2024-05-17T09:56:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit d091e579b864fa790dd6a0cd537a22c383126681 ] SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST skbs must not be linearized, otherwise they become invalid. Return NULL if such an skb is passed to skb_copy or skb_copy_expand, in order to prevent a crash on a potential later call to skb_gso_segment. Fixes: 3a1296a38d0c ("net: Support GRO/GSO fraglist chaining.") Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: mctp: copy skb ext data when fragmenting

2024-03-26T22:20:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1394c1dec1c619a46867ed32791a29695372bff8 ] If we're fragmenting on local output, the original packet may contain ext data for the MCTP flows. We'll want this in the resulting fragment skbs too. So, do a skb_ext_copy() in the fragmentation path, and implement the MCTP-specific parts of an ext copy operation. Fixes: 67737c457281 ("mctp: Pass flow data & flow release events to drivers") Reported-by: Jian Zhang Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin