kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6/ah6.c, branch v7.1

xfrm: ah: use skb_to_full_sk in async output callbacks

2026-05-16T08:56:14+00:00

When AH output is offloaded to an asynchronous crypto provider (hardware accelerators such as AMD CCP, or a forced-async software shim used for testing), the digest completion fires ah_output_done() / ah6_output_done() on a workqueue. The egress skb at that point may have been originated by a TCP listener sending a SYN-ACK, which sets skb->sk to a request_sock via skb_set_owner_edemux(); it may also have been originated by an inet_timewait_sock retransmit. Neither is a full struct sock, and passing the raw skb->sk to xfrm_output_resume() then forwards a non-full socket through the rest of the xfrm output chain. xfrm_output_resume() and its downstream consumers expect a full sk where they dereference at all. The natural egress path through ah_output_done() does not crash today because the consumers that read past sock_common are either gated by sk_fullsock() or short-circuit on flags that are clear on a fresh request_sock; an exhaustive walk of the 50 most plausible consumers under sch_fq, dev_queue_xmit, netfilter, tc-egress and cgroup-egress BPF found no current unguarded deref. The bug is still a real type confusion that future consumer changes could turn into a memory-corruption primitive. This is the same bug class fixed for ESP in commit 1620c88887b1 ("xfrm: Fix the usage of skb->sk"). Apply the analogous fix to AH: convert skb->sk to a full socket pointer (or NULL) via skb_to_full_sk() before handing it to xfrm_output_resume(). The same async AH callbacks were touched recently for an independent ESN-related ICV layout bug in commit ec54093e6a8f ("xfrm: ah: account for ESN high bits in async callbacks"); the sk type-confusion addressed here is orthogonal. This patch is part of an ongoing audit of the AH callback paths; an ah_output ihl-validation hardening series is also currently under review on netdev. Reproduced under UML + KASAN + lockdep with a forced-async hmac(sha1) shim that registers at priority 9999 and wraps the sync in-tree hmac-sha1-lib. With the shim loaded, ah_output_done runs on every SYN-ACK egress through a transport-mode AH SA and skb->sk arrives as a request_sock (TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV); after this patch, xfrm_output_resume() receives the listener (the result of sk_to_full_sk()) and consumer derefs land on full-sock fields as intended. Fixes: 9ab1265d5231 ("xfrm: Use actual socket sk instead of skb socket for xfrm_output_resume") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert

xfrm: ah: account for ESN high bits in async callbacks

2026-04-20T07:28:34+00:00

AH allocates its temporary auth/ICV layout differently when ESN is enabled: the async ahash setup appends a 4-byte seqhi slot before the ICV or auth_data area, but the async completion callbacks still reconstruct the temporary layout as if seqhi were absent. With an async AH implementation selected, that makes AH copy or compare the wrong bytes on both the IPv4 and IPv6 paths. In UML repro on IPv4 AH with ESN and forced async hmac(sha1), ping fails with 100% packet loss, and the callback logs show the pre-fix drift: ah4 output_done: esn=1 err=0 icv_off=20 expected_off=24 ah4 input_done: esn=1 auth_off=20 expected_auth_off=24 icv_off=32 expected_icv_off=36 Reconstruct the callback-side layout the same way the setup path built it by skipping the ESN seqhi slot before locating the saved auth_data or ICV. Per RFC 4302, the ESN high-order 32 bits participate in the AH ICV computation, so the async callbacks must account for the seqhi slot. Post-fix, the same IPv4 AH+ESN+forced-async-hmac(sha1) UML repro shows the corrected offset (ah4 output_done: esn=1 err=0 icv_off=24 expected_off=24) and ping succeeds; net/ipv4/ah4.o and net/ipv6/ah6.o build clean at W=1. IPv6 AH+ESN was not exercised at runtime, and the change has not been tested against a real async hardware AH engine. Fixes: d4d573d0334d ("{IPv4,xfrm} Add ESN support for AH egress part") Fixes: d8b2a8600b0e ("{IPv4,xfrm} Add ESN support for AH ingress part") Fixes: 26dd70c3fad3 ("{IPv6,xfrm} Add ESN support for AH egress part") Fixes: 8d6da6f32557 ("{IPv6,xfrm} Add ESN support for AH ingress part") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5-4 Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

net: ipv6: fix field-spanning memcpy warning in AH output

2025-08-15T06:30:16+00:00

Fix field-spanning memcpy warnings in ah6_output() and ah6_output_done() where extension headers are copied to/from IPv6 address fields, triggering fortify-string warnings about writes beyond the 16-byte address fields. memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 40) of single field "&top_iph->saddr" at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 (size 16) WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8838 at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 ah6_output+0xe7e/0x14e0 net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 The warnings are false positives as the extension headers are intentionally placed after the IPv6 header in memory. Fix by properly copying addresses and extension headers separately, and introduce helper functions to avoid code duplication. Reported-by: syzbot+01b0667934cdceb4451c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=01b0667934cdceb4451c Signed-off-by: Charalampos Mitrodimas Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert

net: fill in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s for ipv6 modules

2024-02-09T22:12:01+00:00

W=1 builds now warn if module is built without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION(). Add descriptions to the IPv6 modules. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240208164244.3818498-6-leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ipv6: stop checking crypto_ahash_alignmask

2023-10-27T10:04:29+00:00

Now that the alignmask for ahash and shash algorithms is always 0, crypto_ahash_alignmask() always returns 0 and will be removed. In preparation for this, stop checking crypto_ahash_alignmask() in ah6.c. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

ah: Do not include crypto/algapi.h

2023-09-15T10:30:43+00:00

The header file crypto/algapi.h is for internal use only. Use the header file crypto/utils.h instead. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

net: ipv6: Remove completion function scaffolding

2023-02-13T10:35:15+00:00

This patch removes the temporary scaffolding now that the comletion function signature has been converted. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

net: ipv6: Add scaffolding to change completion function signature

2023-02-13T10:34:48+00:00

This patch adds temporary scaffolding so that the Crypto API completion function can take a void * instead of crypto_async_request. Once affected users have been converted this can be removed. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu