From: Omar Ramadan <omar@blockcast.net>
To: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH net v5 2/5] amt: reject a gateway Query or Data from 0.0.0.0 before a relay is learned
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 12:50:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105125010.1107546-3-omar@blockcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261105125010.1107546-1-omar@blockcast.net>
A gateway's amt_rcv() admits a Membership Query or Multicast Data message
when "saddr != remote_ip" is false. remote_ip is 0 before discovery has
learned a relay (and is reset to 0 by amt_dev_open() and when discovery
gives up), so a packet whose source is 0.0.0.0 would otherwise pass the
equality check and could spoof a Query or inject multicast data.
Reject both when no relay is learned: a 0 remote_ip must match nothing, so
guard the check with !remote_ip. A Query is queued before its event worker
processes it, so the relay address can also change in that window. Recheck
the packet source against the current remote_ip in the handler and discard
stale Queries. Discovery is unaffected because Relay Advertisements are
validated against discovery_ip, not remote_ip.
Found by code inspection while writing the IPv6 receive path for the
AMT IPv6 outer transport; not triggered at runtime.
Fixes: b9022b53adad ("amt: add control plane of amt interface")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Omar Ramadan <omar@blockcast.net>
---
drivers/net/amt.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/amt.c b/drivers/net/amt.c
index d8914d811..dacfd5524 100644
--- a/drivers/net/amt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/amt.c
@@ -2482,6 +2482,10 @@ static bool amt_membership_query_handler(struct amt_dev *amt,
if (amtmq->reserved || amtmq->version)
return true;
+ /* A deferred query may outlive a relay address change. */
+ if (ip_hdr(skb)->saddr != READ_ONCE(amt->remote_ip))
+ return true;
+
if (amtmq->nonce != amt->nonce)
return true;
@@ -2958,7 +2962,7 @@ static int amt_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
}
goto out;
case AMT_MSG_MULTICAST_DATA:
- if (saddr != remote_ip) {
+ if (!remote_ip || saddr != remote_ip) {
netdev_dbg(amt->dev, "Invalid Relay IP\n");
err = true;
goto drop;
@@ -2969,7 +2973,7 @@ static int amt_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
else
goto out;
case AMT_MSG_MEMBERSHIP_QUERY:
- if (saddr != remote_ip) {
+ if (!remote_ip || saddr != remote_ip) {
netdev_dbg(amt->dev, "Invalid Relay IP\n");
err = true;
goto drop;
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-05 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-05 12:50 [PATCH net v5 0/5] amt: relay tunnel lifetime, validation and request-path hardening Omar Ramadan
2026-11-05 12:50 ` [PATCH net v5 1/5] amt: fix use-after-free when a Membership Update re-arms a freed tunnel Omar Ramadan
2026-11-05 12:50 ` Omar Ramadan [this message]
2026-11-05 12:50 ` [PATCH net v5 3/5] amt: require an exact IPv4-sized IFLA_AMT_{LOCAL,DISCOVERY}_IP Omar Ramadan
2026-11-05 12:50 ` [PATCH net v5 4/5] amt: make pre-query report drops visible Omar Ramadan
2026-11-05 12:50 ` [PATCH net v5 5/5] amt: harden relay authentication and teardown Omar Ramadan
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