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* [PATCH] ipv6: exthdrs: copy old IPv6 header before skb_mac_header_rebuild() in ipv6_rpl_srh_rcv()
@ 2026-09-19 21:06 Hui Peng
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From: Hui Peng @ 2026-09-19 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dsahern, idosch, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni
  Cc: alex.aring, horms, netdev, linux-kernel

In ipv6_rpl_srh_rcv(), after pulling the compressed RPL SRH and calling
skb_push(skb, chdr_len) to expand the buffer for the decompressed SRH,
the function calls skb_mac_header_rebuild(skb) BEFORE copying the saved
IPv6 header from oldhdr to ipv6_hdr(skb).

When chdr_len - pull_len < skb->mac_len (for example, an 8-byte
expansion with a 14-byte Ethernet MAC header), the newly rebuilt MAC
header at [skb->data - skb->mac_len, skb->data) overlaps with the old
IPv6 header at [oldhdr, oldhdr + 40). Calling
skb_mac_header_rebuild(skb) first overwrites the beginning of oldhdr
(version, traffic class, flow label, payload_len, nexthdr, hop_limit,
and the start of saddr) with the Ethernet header bytes, and the
subsequent memmove(ipv6_hdr(skb), oldhdr, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)) copies
those corrupted bytes into the new IPv6 header. Moreover, oldhdr's
nexthdr is only updated to NEXTHDR_ROUTING before the pull, which also
gets clobbered by the overlapping MAC rebuild.

Fix this by copying the 40-byte IPv6 header from oldhdr to skb->data
immediately after skb_push(skb, chdr_len) and before calling
skb_reset_network_header(skb) and skb_mac_header_rebuild(skb), and
explicitly setting ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr = NEXTHDR_ROUTING.

Fixes: 8610c7c6e3bd ("net: ipv6: add support for rpl sr exthdr")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>

---
 net/ipv6/exthdrs.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
index 09a4552f7f08..f9563294c5b9 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
@@ -598,11 +598,12 @@ static int ipv6_rpl_srh_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_dev *idev)
 		oldhdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 	}
 	skb_push(skb, chdr_len);
+	memmove(skb->data, oldhdr, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr));
 	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
 	skb_mac_header_rebuild(skb);
 	skb_set_transport_header(skb, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr));
+	ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr = NEXTHDR_ROUTING;
 
-	memmove(ipv6_hdr(skb), oldhdr, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr));
 	memcpy(skb_transport_header(skb), chdr, (chdr->hdrlen + 1) << 3);
 
 	ipv6_hdr(skb)->payload_len = htons(skb->len - sizeof(struct ipv6hdr));
-- 
2.55.0.1082.g2b9226bbc0-goog


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