[PATCH net v4 1/2] amt: send the relay's General Query directly from the receive path
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From: Omar Ramadan <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-28 20:23:20
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Subsystem:
amt (automatic multicast tunneling), networking drivers, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Taehee Yoo, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Landed in mainline as afae89de73dd on 2026-10-02.
An skb queued in a qdisc can outlive the tunnel it references
through a raw pointer in skb->cb. For example, with igmp_qrv set
to 1 on the relay a tunnel lives for 135s, so a netem delay of
180s on the amt device outlives it; when the tunnel expires and is
freed, the subsequent dequeue triggers a use-after-free in
amt_dev_xmit().
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in amt_dev_xmit+0x2763/0x2e20
Call Trace:
amt_dev_xmit+0x2763/0x2e20 [drivers/net/amt.c:1262]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x22f/0x620
sch_direct_xmit+0x12e/0xac0
netem_dequeue+0x333/0xc50
net_tx_action+0x35c/0xa60
amt_send_igmp_gq() and amt_send_mld_gq() are only called from
amt_request_handler(), inside the rcu_read_lock_bh() section of
amt_rcv(). amt_request_handler() already has the tunnel the query is
for: it found or created it inside that section. Queuing the query with
dev_queue_xmit() only leads back into amt_dev_xmit(), which strips the
Ethernet header and calls amt_send_membership_query() for that tunnel.
Make that call directly from the two senders instead, the same way
amt_send_advertisement() transmits from the receive path. The query
never waits in a qdisc, the tunnel is only dereferenced inside the
RCU section that found or created it, and nothing is stored in
skb->cb, so no lookup or refcount is needed. Remove the query branch
of amt_dev_xmit(), amt_skb_cb() and struct amt_skb_cb, which have no
users left.
Behaviour changes:
- The relay's own General Queries no longer pass through the amt
device's egress path: its qdisc, tc egress (clsact/tcx), the
netfilter egress hook and packet taps. They are still visible as
UDP on the underlay.
- A query that is sent successfully is no longer counted as
tx_dropped. The old query branch left through the unlock label,
which counted every sent query as dropped.
- A query that reaches amt_dev_xmit() on a relay from elsewhere,
such as a userspace querier, is now dropped at the IGMP/MLD type
switch. Before, it trusted whatever skb->cb held, and a NULL
tunnel hit the WARN_ON(1).
Fixes: cbc21dc1cfe9 ("amt: add data plane of amt interface")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Reported-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <redacted>
Reported-by: Cen Zhang (Microsoft Security FORGE Labs) <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Omar Ramadan <redacted>
---
v4: no code change. Add a selftest (patch 2), as Taehee asked in the v2
thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAMArcTXsU+YbUzjF8BOLsVjL2L_Quasv54mdm8iiJN5QdoAPZA@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260928181601.85857-1-omar@blockcast.net/ (local)
v3 (Omar): send the GQ directly from amt_request_handler()'s RCU
section, instead of storing (ip4, source_port) in skb->cb and looking
the tunnel up again at dequeue. This also removes the per-query
tunnel_list walk that Taehee raised on v1, and the v2 window Sashiko
found in which a re-created tunnel could be matched before its nonce
and mac were written. Cen agreed in the v2 thread to go this way if
Taehee is fine with it.
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260922214150.13970-1-cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com/ (local)
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260818164825.63967-1-blbllhy@gmail.com/ (local)
Testing: Cen's KASAN reproducer, in which netem holds the General Query
for 160s past a 135s tunnel lifetime, reports the slab-use-after-free
in amt_dev_xmit() on net, and nothing with this patch or with v2
applied. tools/testing/selftests/net/amt.sh passes 5/5 with and without
this patch on a KASAN + lockdep kernel.
drivers/net/amt.c | 48 +++++++++++++++--------------------------------
include/net/amt.h | 4 ----
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/amt.c b/drivers/net/amt.c
index bddc24e18..b53f8ec55 100644
--- a/drivers/net/amt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/amt.c@@ -80,15 +80,6 @@ static struct in6_addr mld2_all_node = MLD2_ALL_NODE_INIT; static struct mld2_grec mldv2_zero_grec; #endif -static struct amt_skb_cb *amt_skb_cb(struct sk_buff *skb) -{ - BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct amt_skb_cb) + sizeof(struct tc_skb_cb) > - sizeof_field(struct sk_buff, cb)); - - return (struct amt_skb_cb *)((void *)skb->cb + - sizeof(struct tc_skb_cb)); -} - static void __amt_source_gc_work(void) { struct amt_source_node *snode;
@@ -791,6 +782,11 @@ static void amt_send_request(struct amt_dev *amt, bool v6) rcu_read_unlock(); } +static bool amt_send_membership_query(struct amt_dev *amt, + struct sk_buff *skb, + struct amt_tunnel_list *tunnel, + bool v6); + static void amt_send_igmp_gq(struct amt_dev *amt, struct amt_tunnel_list *tunnel) {
@@ -800,8 +796,11 @@ static void amt_send_igmp_gq(struct amt_dev *amt, if (!skb) return; - amt_skb_cb(skb)->tunnel = tunnel; - dev_queue_xmit(skb); + skb_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ethhdr)); + if (amt_send_membership_query(amt, skb, tunnel, false)) { + amt->dev->stats.tx_dropped++; + kfree_skb(skb); + } } #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
@@ -885,8 +884,11 @@ static void amt_send_mld_gq(struct amt_dev *amt, struct amt_tunnel_list *tunnel) if (!skb) return; - amt_skb_cb(skb)->tunnel = tunnel; - dev_queue_xmit(skb); + skb_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ethhdr)); + if (amt_send_membership_query(amt, skb, tunnel, true)) { + amt->dev->stats.tx_dropped++; + kfree_skb(skb); + } } #else static void amt_send_mld_gq(struct amt_dev *amt, struct amt_tunnel_list *tunnel)
@@ -1186,7 +1188,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t amt_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) #endif bool report = false; struct igmphdr *ih; - bool query = false; struct iphdr *iph; bool data = false; bool v6 = false;
@@ -1204,9 +1205,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t amt_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) case IGMP_HOST_MEMBERSHIP_REPORT: report = true; break; - case IGMP_HOST_MEMBERSHIP_QUERY: - query = true; - break; default: goto free; }
@@ -1228,9 +1226,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t amt_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) case ICMPV6_MLD2_REPORT: report = true; break; - case ICMPV6_MGM_QUERY: - query = true; - break; default: goto free; }
@@ -1261,19 +1256,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t amt_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) goto free; goto unlock; } else if (amt->mode == AMT_MODE_RELAY) { - if (query) { - tunnel = amt_skb_cb(skb)->tunnel; - if (!tunnel) { - WARN_ON(1); - goto free; - } - - /* Do not forward unexpected query */ - if (amt_send_membership_query(amt, skb, tunnel, v6)) - goto free; - goto unlock; - } - if (!data) goto free; list_for_each_entry_rcu(tunnel, &amt->tunnel_list, list) {
diff --git a/include/net/amt.h b/include/net/amt.h
index a0255491f..2846dde0c 100644
--- a/include/net/amt.h
+++ b/include/net/amt.h@@ -231,10 +231,6 @@ struct amt_relay_headers { }; } __packed; -struct amt_skb_cb { - struct amt_tunnel_list *tunnel; -}; - struct amt_tunnel_list { struct list_head list; /* Protect All resources under an amt_tunne_list */
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