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| author | Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu> | 2026-03-16 18:02:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-03-18 18:00:07 -0700 |
| commit | b3a6df291fecf5f8a308953b65ca72b7fc9e015d (patch) | |
| tree | e6a692664a235dccf9b5c9958d4390876f907d90 | |
| parent | 6d43a9f6a1727f45fbc5b518a20250ebfec707f3 (diff) | |
udp_tunnel: fix NULL deref caused by udp_sock_create6 when CONFIG_IPV6=n
When CONFIG_IPV6 is disabled, the udp_sock_create6() function returns 0
(success) without actually creating a socket. Callers such as
fou_create() then proceed to dereference the uninitialized socket
pointer, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.
The captured NULL deref crash:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018
RIP: 0010:fou_nl_add_doit (net/ipv4/fou_core.c:590 net/ipv4/fou_core.c:764)
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.constprop.0 (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114)
genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209)
[...]
netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550)
genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219)
netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344)
netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894)
__sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:727 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:742 (discriminator 1))
__sys_sendto (./include/linux/file.h:62 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/file.h:83 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2183 (discriminator 1))
__x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2213 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2209 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2209 (discriminator 1))
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (net/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
This patch makes udp_sock_create6 return -EPFNOSUPPORT instead, so
callers correctly take their error paths. There is only one caller of
the vulnerable function and only privileged users can trigger it.
Fixes: fd384412e199b ("udp_tunnel: Seperate ipv6 functions into its own file.")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317010241.1893893-1-xmei5@asu.edu
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/udp_tunnel.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/udp_tunnel.h b/include/net/udp_tunnel.h index d9c6d04bb3b5..fc1fc43345b5 100644 --- a/include/net/udp_tunnel.h +++ b/include/net/udp_tunnel.h @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ int udp_sock_create6(struct net *net, struct udp_port_cfg *cfg, static inline int udp_sock_create6(struct net *net, struct udp_port_cfg *cfg, struct socket **sockp) { - return 0; + return -EPFNOSUPPORT; } #endif |