[PATCH net v3 1/1] ipmr: only copy pktinfo to cache reports
From: Zhiling Zou <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-03 01:18:10
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
ipmr_cache_report() builds short IGMP reports for mrouted from a packet
that may be a synthetic RTM_GETROUTE query. That query skb stores the
netlink requester portid in NETLINK_CB(), but the report is delivered to
a raw IPv4 socket, whose receive path interprets skb->cb as IPCB().
Commit bb7403655b3c ("ipmr: support IP_PKTINFO on cache report IGMP
msg") added IP_PKTINFO support by calling ipv4_pktinfo_prepare() on the
original packet and then copying the entire 48-byte skb control block to
the report skb. For synthetic route-query packets, this copies
NETLINK_CB() bytes into IPCB() and lets a controlled portid corrupt
IPCB(skb)->opt. With IP_RECVOPTS or IP_RETOPTS enabled, the raw socket
receive path can then copy past the short report packet or overflow the
stack option buffer.
Keep the IP_PKTINFO support, but copy only the pktinfo fields prepared
by ipv4_pktinfo_prepare().
This changes the accidental IP_RECVOPTS/IP_RETOPTS behavior for these
short cache reports, but that behavior was only a side effect of
copying the entire control block and was never intended to work.
Fixes: bb7403655b3c ("ipmr: support IP_PKTINFO on cache report IGMP msg")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <redacted>
---
changes in v3:
- go back to the v1 scope and stop changing the common path
- remove memset(), since alloc_skb() already clears the control block
- v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1b809975e5bd9c0a1dd6fdd1db534e701fe5a4b6.1785379072.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai/ (local)
changes in v2:
- reword the commit message to say the entire 48-byte skb control block is copied
- mention that IP_RECVOPTS/IP_RETOPTS on the mrouted socket was never intended
- move the pktinfo copy to the common path so both report branches are covered
- v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5bc7cd71c2d671b305f25497d88ae8a0aa663c08.1784894076.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai/ (local)
net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
index 1d9a4ac14fcef..56dfa43406c2d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c@@ -1058,6 +1058,7 @@ static int ipmr_cache_report(const struct mr_table *mrt, struct sk_buff *pkt, vifi_t vifi, int assert) { const int ihl = ip_hdrlen(pkt); + struct in_pktinfo *info; struct sock *mroute_sk; struct igmphdr *igmp; struct igmpmsg *msg;
@@ -1113,7 +1114,9 @@ static int ipmr_cache_report(const struct mr_table *mrt, msg->im_vif = vifi; msg->im_vif_hi = vifi >> 8; ipv4_pktinfo_prepare(mroute_sk, pkt, false); - memcpy(skb->cb, pkt->cb, sizeof(skb->cb)); + info = PKTINFO_SKB_CB(skb); + info->ipi_ifindex = PKTINFO_SKB_CB(pkt)->ipi_ifindex; + info->ipi_spec_dst = PKTINFO_SKB_CB(pkt)->ipi_spec_dst; /* Add our header. * Note that code, csum and group fields are cleared. */
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2.43.0