[PATCH net] mpls: reload header after pskb_may_pull()
From: Qing Ming <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-14 09:55:36
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lkml, stable
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
mpls_select_multipath() calls mpls_multipath_hash() to choose a nexthop
when an MPLS route has multiple nexthops. While walking the MPLS label
stack, the hash routine caches hdr for the current label. After finding
the bottom-of-stack label, it calls pskb_may_pull() before reading the
inner IP header.
If an skb is constructed with the inner IP header in nonlinear data and
insufficient tailroom in the linear head, pskb_may_pull() calls
pskb_expand_head() to replace the skb head and free the old one. This
leaves hdr pointing to freed memory. The IPv6 path can invalidate hdr
again when it performs a second pull for the larger header.
The issue was found through static analysis. A reproducer sending a legal
Geneve packet through a bareudp/MPLS multipath setup triggered the same
KASAN report in 2 of 2 unpatched runs:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mpls_select_multipath
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88800ecc6e20 by task ksoftirqd/1/23
Call Trace:
mpls_select_multipath
mpls_forward
__netif_receive_skb_list_core
netif_receive_skb_list_internal
napi_complete_done
gro_cell_poll
__napi_poll
net_rx_action
Freed by task 23:
kfree
pskb_expand_head
__pskb_pull_tail
mpls_select_multipath
Reload hdr from the current skb head after each successful pull before
deriving the inner IPv4 or IPv6 header pointer.
Fixes: 9f427a0e474a ("net: mpls: Fix multipath selection for LSR use case")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Qing Ming <redacted>
---
net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
index 961be5054a03..17b78dcbf8ab 100644
--- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
+++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static u32 mpls_multipath_hash(struct mpls_route *rt, struct sk_buff *skb) if (pskb_may_pull(skb, mpls_hdr_len + sizeof(struct iphdr))) { const struct iphdr *v4hdr; + hdr = mpls_hdr(skb) + label_index; v4hdr = (const struct iphdr *)(hdr + 1); if (v4hdr->version == 4) { hash = jhash_3words(ntohl(v4hdr->saddr),
@@ -231,6 +232,7 @@ static u32 mpls_multipath_hash(struct mpls_route *rt, struct sk_buff *skb) sizeof(struct ipv6hdr))) { const struct ipv6hdr *v6hdr; + hdr = mpls_hdr(skb) + label_index; v6hdr = (const struct ipv6hdr *)(hdr + 1); hash = __ipv6_addr_jhash(&v6hdr->saddr, hash); hash = __ipv6_addr_jhash(&v6hdr->daddr, hash);
base-commit: 24ef02f934eeb48830cff6b739abc3c62b1d107b -- 2.53.0