kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6, branch v6.1.187

ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation

2026-09-02T12:28:35+00:00

commit 44930446dde45a7a90fe1446fa38eb0e2c561646 upstream. End.DX4 and End.DT4 decapsulate an IPv4 packet through decap_and_validate() and send it directly to IPv4 routing. The inner packet therefore bypasses ip_rcv_core(), which normally clears IPCB before IPv4 interprets skb->cb. The skb instead retains IP6CB data from the outer packet. IP6CB and IPCB use the same skb->cb storage, so IP6CB(skb)->lastopt overlaps IPCB(skb)->opt.optlen and srr, while IP6CB(skb)->nhoff overlaps rr and ts. The sender can make the stale optlen byte nonzero with a valid outer extension-header chain. The reproducers put an eight-byte Destination Options header immediately after the 40-byte IPv6 header and before the Segment Routing Header. ipv6_destopt_rcv() records the sender-controlled Destination Options offset in both lastopt and nhoff, setting them to 40. On the reproduced little-endian x86-64 kernel, IPv4 therefore sees optlen = 40 and rr = 40. Both tcp_v4_save_options() and __ip_options_echo() skip option copying when optlen is zero. Here optlen is 40, so the TCP SYN path allocates room for 40 bytes of option data and calls __ip_options_echo(). The stale rr value makes that function read inner packet byte 41 as the Record Route option length. The reproducers set that sender-controlled byte to 255, so __ip_options_echo() copies 255 bytes into the 40-byte option-data area. Separate End.DX4 and End.DT4 reproducers on the unpatched v7.2-rc5 kernel both produced: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __ip_options_echo() Write of size 255 The relevant End.DX4 call path is: __ip_options_echo tcp_v4_route_req tcp_conn_request tcp_v4_conn_request tcp_rcv_state_process tcp_v4_do_rcv tcp_v4_rcv ip_protocol_deliver_rcu ip_local_deliver_finish ip_local_deliver input_action_end_dx4_finish input_action_end_dx4 The relevant End.DT4 call path is: __ip_options_echo tcp_v4_route_req tcp_conn_request tcp_v4_conn_request tcp_rcv_state_process tcp_v4_do_rcv tcp_v4_rcv ip_protocol_deliver_rcu ip_local_deliver_finish ip_local_deliver input_action_end_dt4 tcp_v4_save_options() is inlined into the tcp_v4_route_req() path, so it does not appear as a separate frame. When decap_and_validate() handles IPPROTO_IPIP, save the ingress interface from IP6CB, clear IPCB, and restore the saved value. Doing this in the common decapsulation path covers End.DX4, End.DT4, and End.DT46's IPv4 arm. Use IP6CB(skb)->iif rather than skb->skb_iif. These actions run after l3mdev processing, which can replace skb_iif with the L3 master; IP6CB iif still records the receiving interface set at IPv6 ingress. Fixes: 891ef8dd2a8d ("ipv6: sr: implement additional seg6local actions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Andrea Mayer Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng Co-developed-by: David Lee Signed-off-by: David Lee Reviewed-by: Andrea Mayer Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260817085839.946321-1-david.lee@trailofbits.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left

2026-09-02T12:28:35+00:00

commit 7bad4bda74dc4713f398d3b7624ff05478e3a568 upstream. AH6 rearranges routing-header addresses before computing or verifying the ICV. ipv6_rearrange_rthdr() assumes that segments_left is not larger than the number of addresses described by the routing header's hdrlen field. That assumption does not hold for raw IPv6 HDRINCL packets. A packet with hdrlen equal to 2 describes one address, but can carry an arbitrary segments_left value. With segments_left equal to 255, the function moves its address pointer 4,064 bytes backwards and passes a 4,064-byte length to memmove(), resulting in an out-of-bounds access. Validate the invariant locally before modifying the routing header or performing any address-pointer arithmetic, and propagate malformed-header errors to the existing AH6 input and output error paths. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: avom-custom-harness:gpt-5.5-qwen3.6-mod-mix Signed-off-by: Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP

2026-09-02T12:28:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit c89477ad79446867394360b29bb801010fc3ff22 ] Yizhou Zhao reported that simply having one RAW socket on protocol IPPROTO_RAW (255) was dangerous. socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 255); A malicious incoming ICMP packet can set the protocol field to 255 and match this socket, leading to FNHE cache changes. inner = IP(src="192.168.2.1", dst="8.8.8.8", proto=255)/Raw("TEST") pkt = IP(src="192.168.1.1", dst="192.168.2.1")/ICMP(type=3, code=4, nexthopmtu=576)/inner "man 7 raw" states: A protocol of IPPROTO_RAW implies enabled IP_HDRINCL and is able to send any IP protocol that is specified in the passed header. Receiving of all IP protocols via IPPROTO_RAW is not possible using raw sockets. Make sure we drop these malicious packets. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251109134600.292125-1-zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn/ Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203192509.682208-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski [ in 6.1.y kernel icmpv6_notify returns void, not skb_drop_reason ] Signed-off-by: Juhandré Knoetze Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Korovkin Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipv6: fix use-after-free in ip6_finish_output2()

2026-08-27T12:29:04+00:00

commit d0d48d999b0eee6bb176ef4e39d9be868fa80f7e upstream. ip6_finish_output2() caches a pointer to the IPv6 destination address (daddr) before invoking lwtunnel_xmit(). The LWT-BPF transmit path or other encapsulation operations within lwtunnel_xmit() can reallocate the skb head, freeing the memory that daddr points to. When lwtunnel_xmit() returns LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE, the function continues to use the stale daddr pointer to compute the nexthop and to look up or create the neighbour entry. This results in a use-after-free read, which can leak sensitive kernel data, pollute the neighbour table with arbitrary values, misdirect traffic, or crash the system. Fix this by re-fetching the IPv6 header and the destination address pointer after lwtunnel_xmit() returns LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE, ensuring that the subsequent nexthop computation and neighbour lookup operate on valid memory. Fixes: e415ed3a4b8b ("ipv6: use skb_expand_head in ip6_finish_output2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Vega Signed-off-by: Luxiao Xu Signed-off-by: Ren Wei Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4aa3f53bc44e79572c6dd2340ec7b68ef1a3d87d.1786516730.git.rakukuip@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ndisc: ndisc_send_redirect() cleanup

2026-08-27T12:29:04+00:00

commit 0784d83df3bfc977c13252a0599be924f0afa68d upstream. ndisc_send_redirect() is always called under rcu_read_lock(). It can use dev_net_rcu() and avoid one redundant rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214140705.2105890-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Li Xiasong Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: ip6_tunnel: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink

2026-08-23T12:18:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2496fa0b7d180b3ad356b514e7ff93bb14e6140a ] ip6_tnl_changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the tunnel link netns t->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in t->net can rewrite a tunnel that lives in t->net. Gate ip6_tnl_changelink() on rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() at its top, before any attribute is parsed. Reported-by: Xiao Liang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CABAhCOSzP1vaThGV35_VnsRCb=87_CPjPVsTHbq905k8A+BuUg@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 0bd8762824e7 ("ip6tnl: add x-netns support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612085941.3158249-5-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfilter: nf_tables: pass context structure to nft_parse_register_load

2026-08-23T12:18:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7ea0522ef81a335c2d3a0ab1c8a4fab9a23c4a03 ] Mechanical transformation, no logical changes intended. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Stable-dep-of: d07955dd34ec ("netfilter: nft_fib: reject fib expression on the netdev egress hook") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ip6_tunnel: clear skb2->cb[] in ip6ip6_err()

2026-08-19T15:16:29+00:00

commit f803c086399da277b5d0ff36a107d0f162751800 upstream. ip6ip6_err() clones an outer IPv6 ICMP error skb, pulls it to the quoted inner IPv6 packet, and then passes the clone to icmpv6_send(). The clone still carries the outer packet's inet6_skb_parm in skb->cb. If the outer packet had a Home Address Option, IP6CB(skb2)->dsthao remains non-zero after skb_pull(). icmpv6_send() later calls mip6_addr_swap(), which uses that stale dsthao offset against the quoted inner packet. A malformed inner destination-options header can then make the HAO lookup and address swap run past the end of the quoted packet and corrupt skb_shared_info. Clear skb2->cb[] before pulling the quoted inner IPv6 packet so the reply path does not reuse metadata left by the outer IPv6 stack. Fixes: e490d1d85cf5 ("[IPV6] IP6TUNNEL: Split out generic routine in ip6ip6_err().") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Vega Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/fe1a5e765fbca88d69391887f0ed26a19e3e4d39.1785736562.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: fix Route Information option length validation

2026-08-19T15:16:29+00:00

commit d1ad8fb2ac6a1afb71dc22d9ae8efb4dda96c824 upstream. rt6_route_rcv() validates the Route Information option (RFC 4191) length against the prefix length, but both checks are off by one. rinfo->length is the ND option length in units of 8 octets and it *includes* the 8-byte option header, so an option carrying N bytes of prefix has length == 1 + N/8. RFC 4191 section 2.3 requires length 3 when Prefix Length is greater than 64, and 2 or 3 when it is greater than 0. The code accepts length >= 2 and length >= 1 respectively. ipv6_addr_prefix() then copies prefix_len/8 bytes out of rinfo->prefix, so a Router Advertisement with (prefix_len=128, length=2) or (prefix_len=64, length=1) makes the kernel read up to 8 bytes past the end of the option. Those bytes end up in the prefix of the route that gets installed, so they are visible to userspace: # RA with a Route Information option (prefix_len=128, length=2) # followed by a source link-layer address option, 01 01 de ad be ef ca fe $ ip -6 route show 2001:db8:dead:beef:101:dead:beef:cafe via fe80::1234 dev veth0 proto ra ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the next option, read out of bounds When the Route Information option is the last one in the packet, those eight bytes come from the skb tail room instead. Reject the option lengths RFC 4191 does not allow. Fixes: 70ceb4f53929 ("[IPV6]: ROUTE: Add experimental support for Route Information Option in RA (RFC4191).") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Yuejie Shi Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260730035310.74584-1-syjcnss@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: ipv6: clear suppressed fib6 rule result

2026-08-19T15:16:18+00:00

commit 6aea62e433fe1b586202a5fee8b5807ce635e1d7 upstream. fib6_rule_suppress() drops a suppressed route with ip6_rt_put_flags(), but leaves res->rt6 pointing at the released rt6_info. If no later rule supplies a replacement, fib6_rule_lookup() still sees res.rt6 and returns that stale dst to its caller. A suppressing rule can therefore leak a released route back to rt6_lookup(), and the next put hits rcuref_put_slowpath() from dst_release(). Clear res->rt6 when suppressing the route so suppressed lookups fall through to the null dst instead of reusing the released one. Fixes: cdef485217d3 ("ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6_rule_suppress") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Vega Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou Signed-off-by: Ren Wei Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4b8acb7787d54e440155585dd32ebdf0bef7d122.1784710966.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman