This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sctp: break out if skb_header_pointer returns NULL in sctp_rcv_ootb to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sctp-break-out-if-skb_header_pointer-returns-null-in.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 16686c4bdbfcd8151974d80c5d4dfdab11788c40 Author: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Sep 23 00:05:04 2021 -0400 sctp: break out if skb_header_pointer returns NULL in sctp_rcv_ootb [ Upstream commit f7e745f8e94492a8ac0b0a26e25f2b19d342918f ] We should always check if skb_header_pointer's return is NULL before using it, otherwise it may cause null-ptr-deref, as syzbot reported: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:sctp_rcv_ootb net/sctp/input.c:705 [inline] RIP: 0010:sctp_rcv+0x1d84/0x3220 net/sctp/input.c:196 Call Trace: <IRQ> sctp6_rcv+0x38/0x60 net/sctp/ipv6.c:1109 ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x2e9/0x1ca0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:422 ip6_input_finish+0x62/0x170 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:463 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline] NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:301 [inline] ip6_input+0x9c/0xd0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:472 dst_input include/net/dst.h:460 [inline] ip6_rcv_finish net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:76 [inline] NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline] NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:301 [inline] ipv6_rcv+0x28c/0x3c0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:297 Fixes: 3acb50c18d8d ("sctp: delay as much as possible skb_linearize") Reported-by: syzbot+581aff2ae6b860625116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sctp/input.c b/net/sctp/input.c index 8b7c07fc66d4..64dc2923a21b 100644 --- a/net/sctp/input.c +++ b/net/sctp/input.c @@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ static int sctp_rcv_ootb(struct sk_buff *skb) ch = skb_header_pointer(skb, offset, sizeof(*ch), &_ch); /* Break out if chunk length is less then minimal. */ - if (ntohs(ch->length) < sizeof(_ch)) + if (!ch || ntohs(ch->length) < sizeof(_ch)) break; ch_end = offset + SCTP_PAD4(ntohs(ch->length));