[PATCH net] net/sched: etf: initialise the sock_exterr_skb before filling it
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From: Dudu Lu <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-21 15:54:07
Subsystem:
cbs/etf/taprio qdiscs, networking [general], tc subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Vinicius Costa Gomes, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Jamal Hadi Salim, Jiri Pirko, Linus Torvalds
report_sock_error() clones the transmitted skb, overlays a
struct sock_exterr_skb on its control block and fills in the seven
struct sock_extended_err fields, but never clears addr_offset and port.
skb_clone() copies cb[] verbatim, so the errqueue entry carries the TX
skb's stale control block to the receive side, and the ipv4 error-queue
reader trusts those bytes:
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:556
sin->sin_addr.s_addr = *(__be32 *)(skb_network_header(skb) +
serr->addr_offset);
sin->sin_port = serr->port;
The gate that is supposed to guard that read only asks whether an
address was requested at all:
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:484
return serr->ee.ee_origin == SO_EE_ORIGIN_ICMP ||
serr->ee.ee_origin == SO_EE_ORIGIN_LOCAL || serr->port;
SO_EE_ORIGIN_TXTIME is neither ICMP nor LOCAL, so for sch_etf the gate is
decided by serr->port alone -- by the stale byte pair. When it is
non-zero the reader dereferences skb_network_header() + addr_offset with
an arbitrary offset. On the TCP path cb[40..44) is not zero: the
transmit path stored delivered_mstamp there (tcp_rate_skb_sent()), which
is exactly where addr_offset/port sit in the arm64 struct layout.
Reached with an unmodified 7.3-rc4 (arm64, KASAN, in-tree modules): a TCP
socket enables TX-timestamp error reporting (SO_TXTIME with
SOF_TXTIME_REPORT_ERRORS), a sch_etf qdisc drops the packet, and a
recvmsg() reaches ip_recv_error():
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ip_recv_error+0x970/0xa0c
Read of size 4 at addr ffff0000158ffdd5 by task A-227-A227-1_S2/113
ip_recv_error+0x970/0xa0c
inet_recv_error+0x94/0xdc
tcp_recvmsg+0x378/0x408
...
The buggy address is located 149 bytes to the right of
allocated 704-byte region
Zero the whole overlay rather than the two fields individually: the
errqueue entry is handed to the receive side as a self-contained record,
which is what every other producer in the tree already does (sch_etf was
the only error-queue producer that cleared neither field). This does not
change what the in-tree selftest observes -- so_txtime.c reads only
ee_origin/ee_errno/ee_code/ee_data/ee_info, never msg_name or sin_port.
Fixes: 4b15c7075352 ("net/sched: Make etf report drops on error_queue")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Dudu Lu <redacted>
---
Tested base
-----------
Detected on Linux 7.3-rc4 (commit 93f51579e7df), arm64 QEMU guest.
Re-checked against mainline f47d223627f8 (v7.3-341): the affected code
is unchanged between the two, so the bug is still present there.
Checked against linux-next next-20261021 (commit 9a482184d910): the
affected code is unchanged there as well, so the bug is still present in
linux-next too.
Reproducer status
-----------------
A reproducer was written and executed on an arm64 QEMU guest (dummy-virt,
KASAN kernel) against unmodified 7.3-rc4 in-tree modules; KASAN fired at the
claimed sink. The reproducer source is not posted here per
Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst ("do not publicly share a reproducer");
it is available on request.
Triggering conditions
---------------------
CAP_NET_ADMIN to install the etf qdisc; the socket must opt into TX
timestamp error reporting (SO_TXTIME + SOF_TXTIME_REPORT_ERRORS); a TCP flow
with a non-empty retransmit queue. No out-of-tree module is needed.
Notes
-----
Built and checkpatch-clean: this patch was applied on top of 7.3-rc4
(commit 93f51579e7df) and a full arm64 kernel (defconfig) was built with
it -- no new warnings or errors. scripts/checkpatch.pl reports 0 errors,
0 warnings.
net/sched/sch_etf.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_etf.c b/net/sched/sch_etf.c
index ada87a8..aaafcf6 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_etf.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_etf.c@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static void report_sock_error(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 err, u8 code) return; serr = SKB_EXT_ERR(clone); + memset(serr, 0, sizeof(*serr)); serr->ee.ee_errno = err; serr->ee.ee_origin = SO_EE_ORIGIN_TXTIME; serr->ee.ee_type = 0; --
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)