This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ppp: associate skb with a device at tx
to the 4.14-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:
ppp-associate-skb-with-a-device-at-tx.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8e0d02e2afb220f2a8fe385fc1c6b6de9abccd07
Author: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 21 10:29:13 2022 -0800
ppp: associate skb with a device at tx
[ Upstream commit 9f225444467b98579cf28d94f4ad053460dfdb84 ]
Syzkaller triggered flow dissector warning with the following:
r0 = openat$ppp(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000000), 0xc0802, 0x0)
ioctl$PPPIOCNEWUNIT(r0, 0xc004743e, &(0x7f00000000c0))
ioctl$PPPIOCSACTIVE(r0, 0x40107446, &(0x7f0000000240)={0x2, &(0x7f0000000180)=[{0x20, 0x0, 0x0, 0xfffff034}, {0x6}]})
pwritev(r0, &(0x7f0000000040)=[{&(0x7f0000000140)='\x00!', 0x2}], 0x1, 0x0, 0x0)
[ 9.485814] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 329 at net/core/flow_dissector.c:1016 __skb_flow_dissect+0x1ee0/0x1fa0
[ 9.485929] skb_get_poff+0x53/0xa0
[ 9.485937] bpf_skb_get_pay_offset+0xe/0x20
[ 9.485944] ? ppp_send_frame+0xc2/0x5b0
[ 9.485949] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x40/0x60
[ 9.485958] ? __ppp_xmit_process+0x7a/0xe0
[ 9.485968] ? ppp_xmit_process+0x5b/0xb0
[ 9.485974] ? ppp_write+0x12a/0x190
[ 9.485981] ? do_iter_write+0x18e/0x2d0
[ 9.485987] ? __import_iovec+0x30/0x130
[ 9.485997] ? do_pwritev+0x1b6/0x240
[ 9.486016] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x47/0x50
[ 9.486023] ? __x64_sys_pwritev+0x24/0x30
[ 9.486026] ? do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80
[ 9.486031] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Flow dissector tries to find skb net namespace either via device
or via socket. Neigher is set in ppp_send_frame, so let's manually
use ppp->dev.
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-ppp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: syzbot+41cab52ab62ee99ed24a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
index 81a4fe9706be..5bcbf0e0616d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -1542,6 +1542,8 @@ ppp_send_frame(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb)
int len;
unsigned char *cp;
+ skb->dev = ppp->dev;
+
if (proto < 0x8000) {
#ifdef CONFIG_PPP_FILTER
/* check if we should pass this packet */
