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[PATCH net] phonet: pep: fix use-after-free in pep_get_sb()

From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Date: 2026-07-21 09:15:06
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking [general], phonet protocol, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Remi Denis-Courmont, Linus Torvalds

pep_get_sb() doesn't consider that pskb_may_pull() might have relocated
the skb data, and continue to access the older pointer, causing UAF.

Reproduced under KASAN:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pep_get_sb+0x234/0x3b0
  Read of size 1 at addr ff11000105510f50 by task repro/157
   pep_get_sb+0x234/0x3b0
   pipe_handler_do_rcv+0x5f7/0xa10
   pep_do_rcv+0x203/0x410
   __sk_receive_skb+0x471/0x4a0
   phonet_rcv+0x5b3/0x6c0
   __netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0x1d0

Refetch the header with skb_header_pointer() after pskb_may_pull(), so
the possibly stale pointer is no longer dereferenced. There are better
ways to solve this, but, this is the less instrusive one.

Fixes: 9641458d3ec4 ("Phonet: Pipe End Point for Phonet Pipes protocol")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
This showed up in sashiko report, when I've sent my other patchset
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260720-getsockopt_phase4-v2-0-8a08fcfa0d72@debian.org/ (local)
---
 net/phonet/pep.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/phonet/pep.c b/net/phonet/pep.c
index 7069271393933..31b29e3ca7bc6 100644
--- a/net/phonet/pep.c
+++ b/net/phonet/pep.c
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ static unsigned char *pep_get_sb(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 *ptype, u8 *plen,
 	ph = skb_header_pointer(skb, 0, 2, &h);
 	if (ph == NULL || ph->sb_len < 2 || !pskb_may_pull(skb, ph->sb_len))
 		return NULL;
+	/* pskb_may_pull() may have reallocated the head; refetch ph. */
+	ph = skb_header_pointer(skb, 0, 2, &h);
 	ph->sb_len -= 2;
 	*ptype = ph->sb_type;
 	*plen = ph->sb_len;
---
base-commit: 1c975de3343cdef506f2eecc833cc1f14b0401c4
change-id: 20260720-phonet_get_sb_uaf-8745e9d9d62c

Best regards,
--  
Breno Leitao [off-list ref]
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