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[PATCH] xfrm: iptfs: fix runt reassembly panic from short inner tot_len

From: Henry Martin <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-03 04:02:14
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipsec], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Steffen Klassert, Herbert Xu, Linus Torvalds

When the start of an inner packet is split across two outer packets
such that fewer than 4 bytes land at the end of the first one,
__input_process_payload() saves those bytes as a runt and skips the
iplen/iphlen validation performed for in-place packets. When the
continuation packet arrives, iptfs_reassem_cont() only requires the
declared inner length to be >= sizeof(ra_runt) (6) before allocating
the reassembly skb with that attacker-controlled length.

However, __iptfs_iphlen() always returns the fixed minimum IP header
size (20 for IPv4, 40 for IPv6), so for an inner IPv4 tot_len in
[6, 19] the header-completion copy writes past the declared packet
length, and the subsequent "ipremain -= copylen" underflows to ~4GB,
leaving the payload copy length bounded only by blkoff (up to 64KB).
At runtime the skb_put() tailroom check turns this into
skb_over_panic(), i.e. an unprivileged kernel panic (DoS), reachable
locally via userns+netns IPTFS SAs and remotely against IPTFS VPN
gateways when the decrypted outer skb is linear (e.g. AF_PACKET taps,
tun/tap delivery).

Align the runt path with the normal path by requiring the declared
inner length to cover at least the IP header size. This also subsumes
the previous >= sizeof(ra_runt) check, since the minimum IP header
is always larger than the runt buffer.

This issue was found by the autokbug dynamic kernel fuzzer at
Tencent Yunding Lab.

Fixes: 075694765446 ("xfrm: iptfs: handle received fragmented inner packets")
Reported-by: Henry Martin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <redacted>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
index 597aedeac26eb..f543ae3b49b3c 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c
@@ -820,8 +820,8 @@ static u32 iptfs_reassem_cont(struct xfrm_iptfs_data *xtfs, u64 seq,
 		 * allocate an in progress skb
 		 */
 		ipremain = __iptfs_iplen(xtfs->ra_runt);
-		if (ipremain < sizeof(xtfs->ra_runt)) {
-			/* length has to be at least runtsize large */
+		if (ipremain < __iptfs_iphlen(xtfs->ra_runt)) {
+			/* length has to be at least the IP header size */
 			XFRM_INC_STATS(xs_net(xtfs->x),
 				       LINUX_MIB_XFRMINIPTFSERROR);
 			goto abandon;
-- 
2.43.0
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