[PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

[PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

[Zhou Qiuyue]

rawv6_send_hdrinc() caches the route before handing the skb to
l3mdev_ip6_out(). The VRF output path may replace skb->dst and release
the original route, leaving the cached pointer stale.

The function later dereferences that pointer for statistics accounting
and as the output device passed to NF_HOOK(). Its RCU read-side critical
section starts after l3mdev_ip6_out(), so it cannot prevent the old route
from being reclaimed in between.

Reload the route from the current skb destination after
l3mdev_ip6_out() returns.

KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free in rawv6_sendmsg(), with the route
allocated by ip6_dst_alloc(), freed by dst_destroy() from rcu_core(), and
the related RCU callback queued from vrf_l3_out().

Fixes: 4c1feac58e06 ("net: vrf: Flip IPv6 output path from FIB lookup hook to out hook")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhou Qiuyue <n0ps1edzz@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Rebased onto the current net tree at 7076f684d513.
- Regenerated the patch with git-format-patch so it applies cleanly.
- Corrected the Fixes tag to the commit that made the IPv6 VRF path reachable.
- Shortened the code comment and added the required recipients.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6adad51d.8fc0b0c9.1ec657.1868@mx.google.com

Thank you to Hangbin Liu for reviewing v1 and pointing out the submission
issues.

 net/ipv6/raw.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
index b965258cf..bdea82543 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
@@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int length,
 	if (unlikely(!skb))
 		return 0;
 
+	/* l3mdev_ip6_out() may have replaced the skb dst. */
+	rt = dst_rt6_info(skb_dst(skb));
+
 	/* Acquire rcu_read_lock() in case we need to use rt->rt6i_idev
 	 * in the error path. Since skb has been freed, the dst could
 	 * have been queued for deletion.

base-commit: 7076f684d5132e6a6145e1da2fa74771ecd052e5
-- 
2.50.1.windows.1

Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

[Hangbin Liu]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 12:48:08PM +0800, Zhou Qiuyue wrote:
> rawv6_send_hdrinc() caches the route before handing the skb to
> l3mdev_ip6_out(). The VRF output path may replace skb->dst and release
> the original route, leaving the cached pointer stale.
> 
> The function later dereferences that pointer for statistics accounting
> and as the output device passed to NF_HOOK(). Its RCU read-side critical
> section starts after l3mdev_ip6_out(), so it cannot prevent the old route
> from being reclaimed in between.
> 
> Reload the route from the current skb destination after
> l3mdev_ip6_out() returns.
> 
> KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free in rawv6_sendmsg(), with the route
> allocated by ip6_dst_alloc(), freed by dst_destroy() from rcu_core(), and
> the related RCU callback queued from vrf_l3_out().
> 
> Fixes: 4c1feac58e06 ("net: vrf: Flip IPv6 output path from FIB lookup hook to out hook")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Zhou Qiuyue <n0ps1edzz@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Rebased onto the current net tree at 7076f684d513.
> - Regenerated the patch with git-format-patch so it applies cleanly.
> - Corrected the Fixes tag to the commit that made the IPv6 VRF path reachable.
> - Shortened the code comment and added the required recipients.
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6adad51d.8fc0b0c9.1ec657.1868@mx.google.com
> 
> Thank you to Hangbin Liu for reviewing v1 and pointing out the submission
> issues.
> 
>  net/ipv6/raw.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> index b965258cf..bdea82543 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> @@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int length,
>  	if (unlikely(!skb))
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	/* l3mdev_ip6_out() may have replaced the skb dst. */
> +	rt = dst_rt6_info(skb_dst(skb));
> +
>  	/* Acquire rcu_read_lock() in case we need to use rt->rt6i_idev
>  	 * in the error path. Since skb has been freed, the dst could
>  	 * have been queued for deletion.
> 
> base-commit: 7076f684d5132e6a6145e1da2fa74771ecd052e5
> -- 
> 2.50.1.windows.1
> 

Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@kylinos.cn>

Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

[Antoine Tenart]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 02:09:23PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 12:48:08PM +0800, Zhou Qiuyue wrote:
> > diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > index b965258cf..bdea82543 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > @@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int length,
> >  	if (unlikely(!skb))
> >  		return 0;
> >  
> > +	/* l3mdev_ip6_out() may have replaced the skb dst. */
> > +	rt = dst_rt6_info(skb_dst(skb));
> > +
> >  	/* Acquire rcu_read_lock() in case we need to use rt->rt6i_idev
> >  	 * in the error path. Since skb has been freed, the dst could
> >  	 * have been queued for deletion.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@kylinos.cn>

Doesn't this change the device seen by the nf hook / used for the stats?

Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

[Hangbin Liu]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 04:07:40PM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 02:09:23PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 12:48:08PM +0800, Zhou Qiuyue wrote:
> > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > index b965258cf..bdea82543 100644
> > > --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > @@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int length,
> > >  	if (unlikely(!skb))
> > >  		return 0;
> > >  
> > > +	/* l3mdev_ip6_out() may have replaced the skb dst. */
> > > +	rt = dst_rt6_info(skb_dst(skb));
> > > +
> > >  	/* Acquire rcu_read_lock() in case we need to use rt->rt6i_idev
> > >  	 * in the error path. Since skb has been freed, the dst could
> > >  	 * have been queued for deletion.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@kylinos.cn>
> 
> Doesn't this change the device seen by the nf hook / used for the stats?

Should we still use the old/released rt->dst.dev after the VRF output
path replace skb->dst? vrf_ip6_out_redirect() said it allows the nf hook
use vrf device.

Thanks
Hangbin

Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

[Antoine Tenart]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 09:38:34AM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 04:07:40PM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 02:09:23PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 12:48:08PM +0800, Zhou Qiuyue wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > > index b965258cf..bdea82543 100644
> > > > --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > > +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > > @@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int length,
> > > >  	if (unlikely(!skb))
> > > >  		return 0;
> > > >  
> > > > +	/* l3mdev_ip6_out() may have replaced the skb dst. */
> > > > +	rt = dst_rt6_info(skb_dst(skb));
> > > > +
> > > >  	/* Acquire rcu_read_lock() in case we need to use rt->rt6i_idev
> > > >  	 * in the error path. Since skb has been freed, the dst could
> > > >  	 * have been queued for deletion.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@kylinos.cn>
> > 
> > Doesn't this change the device seen by the nf hook / used for the stats?
> 
> Should we still use the old/released rt->dst.dev after the VRF output
> path replace skb->dst? vrf_ip6_out_redirect() said it allows the nf hook
> use vrf device.

Right, but then in the direct path the NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT hook would be
run twice with the same dev. Looking at other call sites for
l3mdev_ip6_out, it's not clear either,  __ip6_local_out reloads the dev
while ip6_xmit does not. I'm not sure what is the expected behavior.

Regardless of that, the change in behavior (if right) would be worth
mentioning in the commit log.

Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

[Hangbin Liu]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 10:43:48AM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 09:38:34AM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 04:07:40PM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 02:09:23PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 12:48:08PM +0800, Zhou Qiuyue wrote:
> > > > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > > > index b965258cf..bdea82543 100644
> > > > > --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > > > +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> > > > > @@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int length,
> > > > >  	if (unlikely(!skb))
> > > > >  		return 0;
> > > > >  
> > > > > +	/* l3mdev_ip6_out() may have replaced the skb dst. */
> > > > > +	rt = dst_rt6_info(skb_dst(skb));
> > > > > +
> > > > >  	/* Acquire rcu_read_lock() in case we need to use rt->rt6i_idev
> > > > >  	 * in the error path. Since skb has been freed, the dst could
> > > > >  	 * have been queued for deletion.
> > > > 
> > > > Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@kylinos.cn>
> > > 
> > > Doesn't this change the device seen by the nf hook / used for the stats?
> > 
> > Should we still use the old/released rt->dst.dev after the VRF output
> > path replace skb->dst? vrf_ip6_out_redirect() said it allows the nf hook
> > use vrf device.
> 
> Right, but then in the direct path the NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT hook would be
> run twice with the same dev. Looking at other call sites for
> l3mdev_ip6_out, it's not clear either,  __ip6_local_out reloads the dev
> while ip6_xmit does not. I'm not sure what is the expected behavior.

Hmm, me neither. David might know.

Thanks
Hangbin
> 
> Regardless of that, the change in behavior (if right) would be worth
> mentioning in the commit log.

Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

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- [Medium] In VRF redirect mode, rawv6_send_hdrinc() (net/ipv6/raw.c) no
  longer charges per-interface IPv6 SNMP counters to the slave interface.

--

ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

This patch reloads rt from skb_dst(skb) after l3mdev_ip6_out() returns in
rawv6_send_hdrinc(). The VRF output path can replace the skb dst and
release the original route, which leaves the cached pointer stale. It fixes
a KASAN slab-use-after-free reported in rawv6_sendmsg().

> diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> index b965258cf9e5f..bdea825434ea7 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> @@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int length,
>  	if (unlikely(!skb))
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	/* l3mdev_ip6_out() may have replaced the skb dst. */
> +	rt = dst_rt6_info(skb_dst(skb));
> +

[Severity: Medium]
Does this reload move the per-interface IPv6 counters off the slave device
in VRF redirect mode?

When the VRF device has a non-default qdisc and the packet is not
xfrm-transformed, vrf_ip6_out() calls vrf_ip6_out_redirect(), which swaps
in the VRF's private route:

drivers/net/vrf.c:vrf_ip6_out_redirect() {
    ...
	skb_dst_drop(skb);
	skb_dst_set(skb, &rt6->dst);
    ...
}

That vrf->rt6 comes from ip6_dst_alloc() in vrf_rt6_create().
rt6_info_init() zeroes everything after dst, and rt6i_idev is never set
afterwards. So after this reload, rt->rt6i_idev is NULL when the function
gets here:

	IP6_INC_STATS(net, rt->rt6i_idev, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTREQUESTS);
	...
		IP6_INC_STATS(net, rt->rt6i_idev, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTDISCARDS);

_DEVINC handles a NULL idev by skipping the per-device counter, so this
does not crash. Only the netns-wide counter gets bumped. The second
LOCAL_OUT pass in vrf_process_v6_outbound()->vrf_ip6_local_out() does no
OUTREQUESTS accounting either.

As a result, raw IPV6_HDRINCL packets sent on a VRF slave in this mode
would not show up in /proc/net/dev_snmp6/<slave> Ip6OutRequests or
Ip6OutDiscards, and no other device counts them.

The other IPv6 senders count OUTREQUESTS against the original route's idev
before the l3mdev diversion. ip6_xmit() does it before l3mdev_ip6_out().
__ip6_make_skb() does it before ip6_local_out(), and that covers raw
sockets without HDRINCL too.

Would it work to follow the ip6_xmit() pattern instead? That means taking
rcu_read_lock() before l3mdev_ip6_out() and counting OUTREQUESTS while the
skb still holds its reference on the original rt.

dst_release() frees through call_rcu_hurry(dst_destroy_rcu), and that
callback is also where rt6i_idev is dropped. So the original rt and its
idev should stay valid inside the read-side section. This would fix the
use-after-free without changing which device gets the stats.

>  	/* Acquire rcu_read_lock() in case we need to use rt->rt6i_idev
>  	 * in the error path. Since skb has been freed, the dst could
>  	 * have been queued for deletion.

-- 
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Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: raw: fix use-after-free in rawv6_send_hdrinc()

[David Ahern]

On 10/27/26 7:27 PM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 10:43:48AM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 09:38:34AM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 04:07:40PM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 02:09:23PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 12:48:08PM +0800, Zhou Qiuyue wrote:
>>>>>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
>>>>>> index b965258cf..bdea82543 100644
>>>>>> --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
>>>>>> +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
>>>>>> @@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int length,
>>>>>>  	if (unlikely(!skb))
>>>>>>  		return 0;
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> +	/* l3mdev_ip6_out() may have replaced the skb dst. */
>>>>>> +	rt = dst_rt6_info(skb_dst(skb));
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>  	/* Acquire rcu_read_lock() in case we need to use rt->rt6i_idev
>>>>>>  	 * in the error path. Since skb has been freed, the dst could
>>>>>>  	 * have been queued for deletion.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@kylinos.cn>
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't this change the device seen by the nf hook / used for the stats?
>>>
>>> Should we still use the old/released rt->dst.dev after the VRF output
>>> path replace skb->dst? vrf_ip6_out_redirect() said it allows the nf hook
>>> use vrf device.
>>
>> Right, but then in the direct path the NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT hook would be
>> run twice with the same dev. Looking at other call sites for
>> l3mdev_ip6_out, it's not clear either,  __ip6_local_out reloads the dev
>> while ip6_xmit does not. I'm not sure what is the expected behavior.
> 
> Hmm, me neither. David might know.
> 

I do not recall the original behavior; that was many years ago.