* Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST
2026-09-21 4:40 ` [PATCH net v2] ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST Hui Peng
@ 2026-09-21 6:34 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-09-21 22:07 ` Justin Iurman
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From: Hangbin Liu @ 2026-09-21 6:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hui Peng
Cc: Andrea Mayer, David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, David Lebrun, netdev, linux-kernel,
stable
On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 04:40:25AM +0000, Hui Peng wrote:
> In seg6_genl_policy, SEG6_ATTR_DST is defined with .type = NLA_BINARY and
> .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr). For NLA_BINARY, .len only enforces the
> maximum payload length and permits shorter payloads (e.g., 0 bytes).
> When seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() copies sizeof(struct in6_addr) bytes via
> kmemdup(val, sizeof(*val), GFP_KERNEL), a short SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute
> triggers a 16-byte out-of-bounds read past skb->tail into uninitialized
> skb->head memory, which is stored in sdata->tun_src and leaked back to
> userspace via SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC.
>
> Switch SEG6_ATTR_DST in seg6_genl_policy to
> NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)) so that generic netlink
> validation rejects any attribute whose length is not exactly
> sizeof(struct in6_addr) with -ERANGE.
>
> Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by sending a SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC
> Generic Netlink message with a 0-byte SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute followed
> by SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC. On the unfixed kernel, SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC
> succeeds (err = 0) and SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC leaks 16 bytes of
> uninitialized kernel heap memory (tun_src =
> 836a61ecc4d25a1042a8d60411cfb378); with this patch applied,
> SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC is rejected by netlink policy validation with
> -ERANGE (-34) and tun_src remains zeroed.
>
> Fixes: 915d7e5e5930 ("ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop the redundant nla_len(info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST]) !=
> sizeof(struct in6_addr) check in seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() since
> NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN() in seg6_genl_policy already enforces the exact
> length, as pointed out by Hangbin Liu.
>
> net/ipv6/seg6.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/seg6.c b/net/ipv6/seg6.c
> index 62a7eb779202..8c2b156c227a 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/seg6.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/seg6.c
> @@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ void seg6_icmp_srh(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt)
> static struct genl_family seg6_genl_family;
>
> static const struct nla_policy seg6_genl_policy[SEG6_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
> - [SEG6_ATTR_DST] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
> - .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr) },
> + [SEG6_ATTR_DST] =
> + NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)),
> [SEG6_ATTR_DSTLEN] = { .type = NLA_S32, },
> [SEG6_ATTR_HMACKEYID] = { .type = NLA_U32, },
> [SEG6_ATTR_SECRET] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, },
> --
> 2.49.0
Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@kylinos.cn>
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2026-09-21 4:40 ` [PATCH net v2] ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST Hui Peng
2026-09-21 6:34 ` Hangbin Liu
@ 2026-09-21 22:07 ` Justin Iurman
2026-09-23 22:52 ` Andrea Mayer
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From: Justin Iurman @ 2026-09-21 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hui Peng, Andrea Mayer, David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet,
Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni
Cc: Hangbin Liu, Simon Horman, David Lebrun, netdev, linux-kernel, stable
On 9/21/26 06:40, Hui Peng wrote:
> In seg6_genl_policy, SEG6_ATTR_DST is defined with .type = NLA_BINARY and
> .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr). For NLA_BINARY, .len only enforces the
> maximum payload length and permits shorter payloads (e.g., 0 bytes).
> When seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() copies sizeof(struct in6_addr) bytes via
> kmemdup(val, sizeof(*val), GFP_KERNEL), a short SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute
> triggers a 16-byte out-of-bounds read past skb->tail into uninitialized
> skb->head memory, which is stored in sdata->tun_src and leaked back to
> userspace via SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC.
>
> Switch SEG6_ATTR_DST in seg6_genl_policy to
> NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)) so that generic netlink
> validation rejects any attribute whose length is not exactly
> sizeof(struct in6_addr) with -ERANGE.
>
> Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by sending a SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC
> Generic Netlink message with a 0-byte SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute followed
> by SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC. On the unfixed kernel, SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC
> succeeds (err = 0) and SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC leaks 16 bytes of
> uninitialized kernel heap memory (tun_src =
> 836a61ecc4d25a1042a8d60411cfb378); with this patch applied,
> SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC is rejected by netlink policy validation with
> -ERANGE (-34) and tun_src remains zeroed.
>
> Fixes: 915d7e5e5930 ("ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop the redundant nla_len(info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST]) !=
> sizeof(struct in6_addr) check in seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() since
> NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN() in seg6_genl_policy already enforces the exact
> length, as pointed out by Hangbin Liu.
>
> net/ipv6/seg6.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/seg6.c b/net/ipv6/seg6.c
> index 62a7eb779202..8c2b156c227a 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/seg6.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/seg6.c
> @@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ void seg6_icmp_srh(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt)
> static struct genl_family seg6_genl_family;
>
> static const struct nla_policy seg6_genl_policy[SEG6_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
> - [SEG6_ATTR_DST] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
> - .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr) },
> + [SEG6_ATTR_DST] =
> + NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)),
> [SEG6_ATTR_DSTLEN] = { .type = NLA_S32, },
> [SEG6_ATTR_HMACKEYID] = { .type = NLA_U32, },
> [SEG6_ATTR_SECRET] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, },
Reviewed-by: Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@gmail.com>
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2026-09-21 4:40 ` [PATCH net v2] ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST Hui Peng
2026-09-21 6:34 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-09-21 22:07 ` Justin Iurman
@ 2026-09-23 22:52 ` Andrea Mayer
2026-09-24 1:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-24 1:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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From: Andrea Mayer @ 2026-09-23 22:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hui Peng
Cc: David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
Hangbin Liu, Simon Horman, David Lebrun, netdev, linux-kernel,
stable, Andrea Mayer
On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:40:25 +0000
Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com> wrote:
> In seg6_genl_policy, SEG6_ATTR_DST is defined with .type = NLA_BINARY and
> .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr). For NLA_BINARY, .len only enforces the
> maximum payload length and permits shorter payloads (e.g., 0 bytes).
> When seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() copies sizeof(struct in6_addr) bytes via
> kmemdup(val, sizeof(*val), GFP_KERNEL), a short SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute
> triggers a 16-byte out-of-bounds read past skb->tail into uninitialized
> skb->head memory, which is stored in sdata->tun_src and leaked back to
> userspace via SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC.
>
> Switch SEG6_ATTR_DST in seg6_genl_policy to
> NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)) so that generic netlink
> validation rejects any attribute whose length is not exactly
> sizeof(struct in6_addr) with -ERANGE.
>
> Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by sending a SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC
> Generic Netlink message with a 0-byte SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute followed
> by SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC. On the unfixed kernel, SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC
> succeeds (err = 0) and SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC leaks 16 bytes of
> uninitialized kernel heap memory (tun_src =
> 836a61ecc4d25a1042a8d60411cfb378); with this patch applied,
> SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC is rejected by netlink policy validation with
> -ERANGE (-34) and tun_src remains zeroed.
>
> Fixes: 915d7e5e5930 ("ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop the redundant nla_len(info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST]) !=
> sizeof(struct in6_addr) check in seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() since
> NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN() in seg6_genl_policy already enforces the exact
> length, as pointed out by Hangbin Liu.
>
> net/ipv6/seg6.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Thanks,
Andrea
Reviewed-by: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
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@ 2026-09-24 1:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-24 1:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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From: Jakub Kicinski @ 2026-09-24 1:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hui Peng
Cc: Andrea Mayer, David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet, Paolo Abeni,
Hangbin Liu, Simon Horman, David Lebrun, netdev, linux-kernel,
stable
On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:40:25 +0000 Hui Peng wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST
Do not send patches in replies to existing threads.
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2026-09-24 1:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
@ 2026-09-24 1:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf @ 2026-09-24 1:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hui Peng
Cc: andrea.mayer, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, hangbin.liu, horms,
david.lebrun, netdev, linux-kernel, stable
Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:
On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:40:25 +0000 you wrote:
> In seg6_genl_policy, SEG6_ATTR_DST is defined with .type = NLA_BINARY and
> .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr). For NLA_BINARY, .len only enforces the
> maximum payload length and permits shorter payloads (e.g., 0 bytes).
> When seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() copies sizeof(struct in6_addr) bytes via
> kmemdup(val, sizeof(*val), GFP_KERNEL), a short SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute
> triggers a 16-byte out-of-bounds read past skb->tail into uninitialized
> skb->head memory, which is stored in sdata->tun_src and leaked back to
> userspace via SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net,v2] ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/2d959c75c27f
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