[PATCH net] bonding: alb: fix uninitialized transport header access in alb_determine_nd()
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2026-08-31 19:46:29
Subsystem:
bonding driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Jay Vosburgh, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
alb_determine_nd() uses icmp6_hdr(skb) to inspect ICMPv6 headers.
However, in xmit paths (e.g. packets sent via AF_PACKET / raw sockets
or forwarded packets), skb->transport_header is not guaranteed to be
initialized. While pskb_network_may_pull() ensures the packet data is
linear starting from the network header, it does not set or adjust the
transport header offset.
Dereferencing icmp6_hdr(skb) can therefore access out-of-bounds memory.
Fetch the icmp6hdr directly after ipv6hdr following pskb_network_may_pull(),
and reload ipv6hdr in case pskb_may_pull() reallocated skb->head.
Also remove the unused bond argument from alb_determine_nd().
Fixes: 0da8aa00bfcf ("net: bonding: Add support for IPV6 ns/na to balance-alb/balance-tlb mode")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
index 839f7482dc18..5073aeeba6c9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c@@ -1281,10 +1281,10 @@ static int alb_set_mac_address(struct bonding *bond, void *addr) } /* determine if the packet is NA or NS */ -static bool alb_determine_nd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct bonding *bond) +static bool alb_determine_nd(struct sk_buff *skb) { - struct ipv6hdr *ip6hdr; - struct icmp6hdr *hdr; + const struct ipv6hdr *ip6hdr; + const struct icmp6hdr *hdr; if (!pskb_network_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*ip6hdr))) return true;
@@ -1296,7 +1296,8 @@ static bool alb_determine_nd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct bonding *bond) if (!pskb_network_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*ip6hdr) + sizeof(*hdr))) return true; - hdr = icmp6_hdr(skb); + ip6hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb); + hdr = (const struct icmp6hdr *)(ip6hdr + 1); return hdr->icmp6_type == NDISC_NEIGHBOUR_ADVERTISEMENT || hdr->icmp6_type == NDISC_NEIGHBOUR_SOLICITATION; }
@@ -1381,7 +1382,7 @@ struct slave *bond_xmit_tlb_slave_get(struct bonding *bond, if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(eth_data->h_dest)) { switch (skb->protocol) { case htons(ETH_P_IPV6): - if (alb_determine_nd(skb, bond)) + if (alb_determine_nd(skb)) break; fallthrough; case htons(ETH_P_IP):
@@ -1467,7 +1468,7 @@ struct slave *bond_xmit_alb_slave_get(struct bonding *bond, break; } - if (alb_determine_nd(skb, bond)) { + if (alb_determine_nd(skb)) { do_tx_balance = false; break; }
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