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[PATCH net] mpls: fix NULL deref in mpls_valid_fib_dump_req() on CONFIG_INET=n

From: Weiming Shi <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-11 13:18:34
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Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

On CONFIG_INET=n builds, mpls_valid_fib_dump_req() walks the parsed
attribute table itself instead of calling ip_valid_fib_dump_req(). The
RTA_OIF arm passes tb[RTA_OIF] to nla_get_u32() without checking it is
present, so an RTM_GETROUTE dump for AF_MPLS with strict checking and no
RTA_OIF hits a NULL dereference.

RTM_GETROUTE is RTNL_KIND_GET, which rtnetlink_rcv_msg() permits without
CAP_NET_ADMIN, so an unprivileged user can trigger it.

  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
        0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
  RIP: 0010:mpls_valid_fib_dump_req (net/mpls/af_mpls.c:2189)
  Call Trace:
   mpls_dump_routes (net/mpls/af_mpls.c:2236)
   netlink_dump (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2331)
   __netlink_dump_start (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2446)
   rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7033)
   netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556)
   netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345)
   netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900)
   __sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:790)
   ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2684)
   ___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2738)
   __sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2770)
   do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)

Skip unset attributes, as ip_valid_fib_dump_req() does.

Fixes: 196cfebf8972 ("net/mpls: Handle kernel side filtering of route dumps")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <redacted>
---
 net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
index ca504d9626cf..318cb7e2ac5f 100644
--- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
+++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
@@ -2186,6 +2186,9 @@ static int mpls_valid_fib_dump_req(struct net *net, const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 		int ifindex;
 
 		if (i == RTA_OIF) {
+			if (!tb[i])
+				continue;
+
 			ifindex = nla_get_u32(tb[i]);
 			filter->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
 			if (!filter->dev)
-- 
2.43.0
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