[PATCH net v6 3/6] amt: reject a gateway Query or Data from 0.0.0.0 before a relay is learned

From
Omar Ramadan <hidden>
Date
2026-11-07 00:49:45
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Omar Ramadan, 2026-11-07
A gateway's amt_rcv() admits a Membership Query or Multicast Data
message when "saddr != remote_ip" is false. remote_ip is 0 before
discovery has learned a relay (and is reset to 0 by amt_dev_open(), by
amt_dev_stop(), and when the gateway gives up after its Requests go
unanswered), so a packet whose source is 0.0.0.0 would otherwise pass
the equality check and could spoof a Query or inject multicast data.
IPv4 input accepts a 0.0.0.0 source only on a limited broadcast, so the
sender has to be on the gateway's link.

Reject both when no relay is learned: a 0 remote_ip must match nothing, so
guard the check with !remote_ip. A Query is queued before its event worker
processes it, so the relay address can also change in that window. Recheck
the packet source against the current remote_ip in the handler and discard
stale Queries. Discovery is unaffected because Relay Advertisements are
validated against discovery_ip, not remote_ip.

Found by code inspection while writing the IPv6 receive path for the
AMT IPv6 outer transport; not triggered at runtime.

Fixes: b9022b53adad ("amt: add control plane of amt interface")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Omar Ramadan <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/amt.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/amt.c b/drivers/net/amt.c
index e4b8c02a0..c714994ef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/amt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/amt.c
@@ -2499,6 +2499,10 @@ static bool amt_membership_query_handler(struct amt_dev *amt,
 	if (amtmq->reserved || amtmq->version)
 		return true;
 
+	/* A deferred query may outlive a relay address change. */
+	if (ip_hdr(skb)->saddr != READ_ONCE(amt->remote_ip))
+		return true;
+
 	if (amtmq->nonce != amt->nonce)
 		return true;
 
@@ -2977,7 +2981,7 @@ static int amt_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 			}
 			goto out;
 		case AMT_MSG_MULTICAST_DATA:
-			if (saddr != remote_ip) {
+			if (!remote_ip || saddr != remote_ip) {
 				netdev_dbg(amt->dev, "Invalid Relay IP\n");
 				err = true;
 				goto drop;
@@ -2988,7 +2992,7 @@ static int amt_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 			else
 				goto out;
 		case AMT_MSG_MEMBERSHIP_QUERY:
-			if (saddr != remote_ip) {
+			if (!remote_ip || saddr != remote_ip) {
 				netdev_dbg(amt->dev, "Invalid Relay IP\n");
 				err = true;
 				goto drop;
-- 
2.43.0
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