kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6, branch v6.6.152

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

2026-08-19T16:13:14+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

2026-08-19T16:13:13+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/tcp: Prepare tcp_md5sig_pool for TCP-AO

2026-08-19T16:13:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8c73b26315aadb82218360d0a9a05e515f6e4118 ] TCP-AO, similarly to TCP-MD5, needs to allocate tfms on a slow-path, which is setsockopt() and use crypto ahash requests on fast paths, which are RX/TX softirqs. Also, it needs a temporary/scratch buffer for preparing the hash. Rework tcp_md5sig_pool in order to support other hashing algorithms than MD5. It will make it possible to share pre-allocated crypto_ahash descriptors and scratch area between all TCP hash users. Internally tcp_sigpool calls crypto_clone_ahash() API over pre-allocated crypto ahash tfm. Kudos to Herbert, who provided this new crypto API. I was a little concerned over GFP_ATOMIC allocations of ahash and crypto_request in RX/TX (see tcp_sigpool_start()), so I benchmarked both "backends" with different algorithms, using patched version of iperf3[2]. On my laptop with i7-7600U @ 2.80GHz: clone-tfm per-CPU-requests TCP-MD5 2.25 Gbits/sec 2.30 Gbits/sec TCP-AO(hmac(sha1)) 2.53 Gbits/sec 2.54 Gbits/sec TCP-AO(hmac(sha512)) 1.67 Gbits/sec 1.64 Gbits/sec TCP-AO(hmac(sha384)) 1.77 Gbits/sec 1.80 Gbits/sec TCP-AO(hmac(sha224)) 1.29 Gbits/sec 1.30 Gbits/sec TCP-AO(hmac(sha3-512)) 481 Mbits/sec 480 Mbits/sec TCP-AO(hmac(md5)) 2.07 Gbits/sec 2.12 Gbits/sec TCP-AO(hmac(rmd160)) 1.01 Gbits/sec 995 Mbits/sec TCP-AO(cmac(aes128)) [not supporetd yet] 2.11 Gbits/sec So, it seems that my concerns don't have strong grounds and per-CPU crypto_request allocation can be dropped/removed from tcp_sigpool once ciphers get crypto_clone_ahash() support. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZDefxOq6Ax0JeTRH@gondor.apana.org.au/T/#u [2]: https://github.com/0x7f454c46/iperf/tree/tcp-md5-ao Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov Reviewed-by: Steen Hegelund Acked-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: d0c80dbb9704 ("net/atm: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in vcc_setsockopt()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg

2026-08-09T18:22:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit bfa858f220ab8c950dd3e1310fee61950d0ecdae ] To be able to constify instances of struct ctl_tables it is necessary to remove ways through which non-const versions are exposed from the sysctl core. One of these is the ctl_table_arg member of struct ctl_table_header. Constify this reference as a prerequisite for the full constification of struct ctl_table instances. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: f8d5e7846025 ("sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: ipv6: clear suppressed fib6 rule result

2026-08-09T18:21:54+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

ipv6: fib6: fix NULL deref in fib6_walk_continue() on multi-batch dump

2026-08-09T18:21:50+00:00

commit 9facb861dc6b9b9ea9793ef5032a9a826f7a4229 upstream. inet6_dump_fib() saves its progress in cb->args[1] as a positional index within the current hash chain. Between batches, a concurrent fib6_new_table() can insert a new table at the chain head, shifting all existing entries. The saved index then lands on a different table, causing fib6_dump_table() to set w->root to the wrong table while w->node still points into the previous one. fib6_walk_continue() dereferences w->node->parent (NULL) and panics: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 RIP: 0010:fib6_walk_continue+0x6e/0x170 Call Trace: fib6_dump_table.isra.0+0xc5/0x240 inet6_dump_fib+0xf6/0x420 rtnl_dumpit+0x30/0xa0 netlink_dump+0x15b/0x460 netlink_recvmsg+0x1d6/0x2a0 ____sys_recvmsg+0x17a/0x190 Fix by storing tb->tb6_id in cb->args[1] instead of a positional index. On resume, skip entries until the id matches; a concurrent head-insert can never match the saved id, so the walker always resumes on the correct table. Fixes: 1b43af5480c3 ("[IPV6]: Increase number of possible routing tables to 2^32") Signed-off-by: Pengfei Zhang Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260625070517.965597-1-zhangfeionline@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski [Adapted to 5.10/6.1/6.6: inet6_dump_fib() there predates 22e36ea9f5d7 and 5fc68320c1fb, so the return variable is "res" not "err" and the RCU-protected hash walk exits via "out_unlock" instead of "unlock". Context-only change; the fix itself is identical.] Signed-off-by: Pengfei Zhang Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails

2026-08-09T18:21:47+00:00

[ Upstream commit dbc3791e3b2472e1ccc08947e0f83b443470ff4f ] When inet_getpeer_v4() or inet_getpeer_v6() fails to allocate a peer entry under memory pressure or tree size caps, redirect handlers previously fell back to sending un-rate-limited ICMP/NDISC Redirect messages. In IPv4, ip_rt_send_redirect() called icmp_send() directly when peer == NULL. In IPv6, ip6_forward() and ndisc_send_redirect() passed a NULL peer into inet_peer_xrlim_allow(), which returned true when peer == NULL. Because ICMP/NDISC Redirects are not part of the default global rate limit mask (sysctl_icmp_ratemask), sending redirects when peer == NULL creates an un-rate-limited ICMP packet storm. Fix this by failing closed in ip_rt_send_redirect(), ip6_forward(), and ndisc_send_redirect() when peer is NULL. Fixes: 92d868292634 ("inetpeer: Move ICMP rate limiting state into inet_peer entries.") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724072901.1633601-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

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

2026-08-03T09:15:39+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: remove register tracking infrastructure

2026-08-03T09:15:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6b94d081f81dd524626f7aab2b98a9de335edb72 ] This facility was disabled in commit 9e539c5b6d9c ("netfilter: nf_tables: disable expression reduction infra"), because not all nft_exprs guarantee they will update the destination register: some may set NFT_BREAK instead to cancel evaluation of the rule. This has been dead code ever since. There are no plans to salvage this at this time, so remove this. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224205048.4718-10-fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 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

ipv6: ndisc: fix NULL deref in accept_untracked_na()

2026-08-03T09:15:32+00:00

commit d186e942365acece7c56d39da05dd63bf95b280a upstream. accept_untracked_na() re-fetches the inet6_dev with __in6_dev_get(dev) and dereferences idev->cnf.accept_untracked_na without a NULL check, even though its only caller ndisc_recv_na() already fetched and NULL-checked idev for the same device. Both reads of dev->ip6_ptr run in the same RCU read-side critical section, but a concurrent addrconf_ifdown() can clear dev->ip6_ptr between them: lowering the MTU below IPV6_MIN_MTU calls addrconf_ifdown() without the synchronize_net() that orders the unregister path, so the re-fetch returns NULL and oopses: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in ndisc_recv_na (net/ipv6/ndisc.c:974) Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000364 Call Trace: ndisc_recv_na (net/ipv6/ndisc.c:974) icmpv6_rcv (net/ipv6/icmp.c:1193) ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:479) ip6_input_finish (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:534) ip6_input (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:545) ip6_mc_input (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:635) ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351) It is reachable by an unprivileged user via a network namespace. Pass the caller's already validated idev instead of re-fetching it; the idev stays alive for the whole RCU critical section, so it is safe even after dev->ip6_ptr has been cleared. Fixes: aaa5f515b16b ("net: ipv6: new accept_untracked_na option to accept na only if in-network") Reported-by: Xiang Mei Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260617065512.2529757-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin