[PATCH bpf v3] bpf: Fix skb_pull() BUG in __bpf_redirect_neigh()
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WARM1d
REVIEWED: 1 (0M)
From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Date: 2026-10-31 19:38:57
Also in:
bpf, stable
Subsystem:
bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), bpf [networking] (tcx & tc bpf, sock_addr), networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Status: Reviewed.
1 review trailer.
The issue: This is a follow-up to the short link-layer header fixes from Eric. After vlan pop_eth, a privileged SCHED_ACT BPF program can call bpf_skb_change_head(skb, 1, 0) and then bpf_redirect_neigh(). __bpf_redirect_neigh() calls skb_pull(skb, sizeof(*ethh)) after checking only that mac_header < network_header. Nothing verifies that the MAC header is long enough, that it is linear, or that the IP header the redirect goes on to read is linear either. A SCHED_ACT BPF program can do: bpf_skb_change_head(skb, 1, 0); bpf_redirect_neigh(lo, NULL, 0, 0); after vlan pop_eth. The skb then has mac_len == 1 and only one byte of linear data; skb_pull(ETH_HLEN) trips the skb->len < skb->data_len BUG in __skb_pull(): kernel BUG at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:2839! RIP: skb_pull+0x40/0x50 Call Trace: skb_do_redirect -> packet_xmit -> packet_sendmsg Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt The v4 and v6 paths read ip_hdr() and ipv6_hdr() as soon as the MAC header is gone. On the AF_PACKET frame below that leaves headlen == 0 after the pull, so the network header sits at skb->tail and the route lookup reads ip4h->protocol, ip4h->saddr and ip4h->daddr past the linear area. The Fix: Use skb_network_offset(), which is the MAC header span, instead of skb->mac_len. mac_len is zero for locally generated tc egress and netkit packets, while the span still rejects the one-byte header produced by pop_eth + bpf_skb_change_head(skb, 1, 0). The single check also covers the mac_header >= network_header test it replaces. Use pskb_may_pull() to make the Ethernet header linear before it is read or pulled, and to make the IP header linear in both the v4 and the v6 path before ip_hdr()/ipv6_hdr() is read. The header pointers are taken after the pull, since pskb_may_pull() may reallocate skb->head. Conditions to recreate the bug: On x86-64 with 4 KiB pages, enable CONFIG_PACKET, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL, CONFIG_NET_SCH_INGRESS, CONFIG_NET_CLS_MATCHALL, CONFIG_NET_ACT_VLAN and CONFIG_NET_ACT_BPF. Run as root with BPF loading, network administration and raw-packet privileges. Bring lo up and attach a SCHED_ACT program that calls bpf_skb_change_head(skb, 1, 0), then returns bpf_redirect_neigh(skb->ifindex, NULL, 0, 0): ip link set lo up tc qdisc add dev lo clsact tc filter add dev lo egress matchall action vlan pop_eth pipe \ action bpf object-file neigh_chghead.o section action Send an untagged ETH_P_IP frame of ETH_HLEN + 8192 bytes through an AF_PACKET/SOCK_RAW socket bound to lo, without PACKET_VNET_HDR or PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS. Use a unicast destination MAC. The sender's skb has a 14-byte linear Ethernet prefix and a fragmented payload; pop_eth removes that prefix and change_head restores only one linear byte. The unfixed neighbor redirect then tries to pull 14 bytes and BUGs. Sending the same frame without pop_eth and change_head leaves the IP header in the frags, which is the route lookup reading past skb->tail. Fixes: b4ab31414970 ("bpf: Add redirect_neigh helper as redirect drop-in") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261027082604.1485903-1-edumazet@kernel.org/ (local) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2a0f5ff1d8db81b07fc4b344b8e68e3505fcbf36f72a471d1678b2f1cecd881b@mail.kernel.org/ (local) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/DMII4JGTEUEG.2WRJPT6ODT6J0@gmail.com/ (local) Cc: <redacted> Reviewed-by: Victor Nogueira <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> --- v3: - linearize the IP header in the v4 and v6 paths with pskb_may_pull() before ip_hdr()/ipv6_hdr() is read; the Ethernet check alone left the route lookup reading past skb->tail - collapsed the MAC-header check to skb_network_offset(), which also covers the offset test it replaces (Alexei) - dropped the tc-egress: it cannot hit the BUG (Alexei) - retarget to the bpf tree v2: - use skb_mac_header_len() instead of mac_len; mac_len is zero for locally generated tc egress and netkit packets - add tc-egress coverage to tc_redirect_neigh - document the nonlinear AF_PACKET reproduction conditions --- net/core/filter.c | 21 ++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index 09c60a58c82a..303c0c44dc2c 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c@@ -2290,9 +2290,13 @@ static int bpf_out_neigh_v6(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, static int __bpf_redirect_neigh_v6(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct bpf_nh_params *nh) { - const struct ipv6hdr *ip6h = ipv6_hdr(skb); struct net *net = dev_net(dev); int err, ret = NET_XMIT_DROP; + const struct ipv6hdr *ip6h; + + if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*ip6h)))) + goto out_drop; + ip6h = ipv6_hdr(skb); if (!nh) { struct dst_entry *dst;
@@ -2399,9 +2403,13 @@ static int bpf_out_neigh_v4(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, static int __bpf_redirect_neigh_v4(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct bpf_nh_params *nh) { - const struct iphdr *ip4h = ip_hdr(skb); struct net *net = dev_net(dev); int err, ret = NET_XMIT_DROP; + const struct iphdr *ip4h; + + if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*ip4h)))) + goto out_drop; + ip4h = ip_hdr(skb); if (!nh) { struct flowi4 fl4 = {
@@ -2451,15 +2459,14 @@ static int __bpf_redirect_neigh_v4(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, static int __bpf_redirect_neigh(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct bpf_nh_params *nh) { - struct ethhdr *ethh = eth_hdr(skb); - - if (unlikely(skb->mac_header >= skb->network_header)) + if (unlikely(skb_network_offset(skb) < ETH_HLEN || + !pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN))) goto out; bpf_push_mac_rcsum(skb); - if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethh->h_dest)) + if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest)) goto out; - skb_pull(skb, sizeof(*ethh)); + skb_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN); skb_unset_mac_header(skb); skb_reset_network_header(skb);
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