[PATCH 5.15 884/935] net: qualcomm: rmnet: restore skb->dev on deaggregated frames

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 19:15:13
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5.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Xiang Mei <redacted>

[ Upstream commit a66734a1c5e36525ea07e9f4547fddc51e916de3 ]

rmnet_map_deaggregate() allocates each sub-frame with alloc_skb() and
leaves skb->dev NULL. __rmnet_map_ingress_handler() assigns
skb->dev = ep->egress_dev only on the data path, but a MAP command frame
is dispatched to rmnet_map_command() before that, so rmnet_map_send_ack()
runs netif_tx_lock(skb->dev) on a NULL device. An unprivileged user
reaches this by unsharing a user+net namespace, creating an rmnet link
over a tap device with INGRESS_DEAGGREGATION and INGRESS_MAP_COMMANDS,
and writing an aggregated frame carrying a flow-control command to the
tap fd.

Restore the assignment dropped by 378e25357ac7, so every skb leaving
rmnet_map_deaggregate() has a valid device.

  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:158)
  Write of size 4 at addr 00000000000004b4 by task exploit/144
  Call Trace:
   _raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:158)
   netif_tx_lock (net/sched/sch_generic.c:497)
   rmnet_map_command (drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_command.c:67)
   rmnet_rx_handler (drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c:125)
   __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:6103)
   ...
   __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6214)
   netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6474)
   tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1966)
   tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2012)
   vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:687)
   ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:739)
   do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Fixes: 378e25357ac7 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Remove unnecessary device assignment")
Reported-by: <redacted>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ijg79FFMfIvKJbivdJEKvTO90Q9dTvyBkJck@bugs.sh/T/#u (local)
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subash.a.kasiviswanathan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260820195240.1631458-1-xmei5@asu.edu (local)
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c
index 312acd8d97af1..cee7946bf0319 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c
@@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ struct sk_buff *rmnet_map_deaggregate(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (!skbn)
 		return NULL;
 
+	skbn->dev = skb->dev;
 	skb_reserve(skbn, RMNET_MAP_DEAGGR_HEADROOM);
 	skb_put(skbn, packet_len);
 	memcpy(skbn->data, skb->data, packet_len);
-- 
2.53.0


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