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[PATCH net 1/2] ipmr: fully initialize the synthetic IP header in ipmr_get_route()

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From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-10-25 07:19:07
Also in: stable
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds

For an unresolved multicast route query, ipmr_get_route() builds a
synthetic IP header in the headroom obtained from
skb_realloc_headroom(), which does not zero the memory it allocates.
Only a few fields are initialized, leaving others as stale heap
contents.

ipmr_cache_report() copies this header into the IGMPMSG_NOCACHE report
that is queued to the mroute socket, so a recvmsg() on that socket leaks
the uninitialized bytes to user space: the 'tos' field [1] and the 'id'
and 'frag_off' fields [2].

Fix by zeroing the IP header before filling in the few fields that are
used, so that the entire header is initialized, as in ip6mr_get_route().

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter
 raw_recvmsg

Uninit was stored to memory at:
 ipmr_cache_report
 ipmr_cache_unresolved
 ipmr_get_route

Uninit was created at:
 pskb_expand_head
 skb_realloc_headroom
 ipmr_get_route

Byte 1 of 28 is uninitialized

[2]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter
 raw_recvmsg

Uninit was stored to memory at:
 ipmr_cache_report
 ipmr_cache_unresolved
 ipmr_get_route

Uninit was created at:
 pskb_expand_head
 skb_realloc_headroom
 ipmr_get_route

Bytes 4-7 of 28 are uninitialized

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: <redacted>
Reported-by: Sashiko <netdev-bot+sashiko@kernel.org>
Closes: https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/0545f0c83f5ee2f6696210f87268e811ef655715.1792476357.git.zhilinz%40nebusec.ai
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
index acacaae05cc4..eac23f251bfd 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
@@ -2506,6 +2506,7 @@ int ipmr_get_route(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		skb_push(skb2, sizeof(struct iphdr));
 		skb_reset_network_header(skb2);
 		iph = ip_hdr(skb2);
+		memset(iph, 0, sizeof(*iph));
 		iph->ihl = sizeof(struct iphdr) >> 2;
 		iph->saddr = saddr;
 		iph->daddr = daddr;
-- 
2.56.0
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