This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/sched: act_ipt: zero skb->cb before calling target to the 6.1-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: net-sched-act_ipt-zero-skb-cb-before-calling-target.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e30f7714a276eaf155fe312add3e12f7fc38ef61 Author: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 27 14:38:13 2023 +0200 net/sched: act_ipt: zero skb->cb before calling target [ Upstream commit 93d75d475c5dc3404292976147d063ee4d808592 ] xtables relies on skb being owned by ip stack, i.e. with ipv4 check in place skb->cb is supposed to be IPCB. I don't see an immediate problem (REJECT target cannot be used anymore now that PRE/POSTROUTING hook validation has been fixed), but better be safe than sorry. A much better patch would be to either mark act_ipt as "depends on BROKEN" or remove it altogether. I plan to do this for -next in the near future. This tc extension is broken in the sense that tc lacks an equivalent of NF_STOLEN verdict. With NF_STOLEN, target function takes complete ownership of skb, caller cannot dereference it anymore. ACT_STOLEN cannot be used for this: it has a different meaning, caller is allowed to dereference the skb. At this time NF_STOLEN won't be returned by any targets as far as I can see, but this may change in the future. It might be possible to work around this via list of allowed target extensions known to only return DROP or ACCEPT verdicts, but this is error prone/fragile. Existing selftest only validates xt_LOG and act_ipt is restricted to ipv4 so I don't think this action is used widely. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sched/act_ipt.c b/net/sched/act_ipt.c index a6b522b512dc3..598d6e299152a 100644 --- a/net/sched/act_ipt.c +++ b/net/sched/act_ipt.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <linux/tc_act/tc_ipt.h> #include <net/tc_act/tc_ipt.h> #include <net/tc_wrapper.h> +#include <net/ip.h> #include <linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h> @@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ TC_INDIRECT_SCOPE int tcf_ipt_act(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tc_action *a, struct tcf_result *res) { + char saved_cb[sizeof_field(struct sk_buff, cb)]; int ret = 0, result = 0; struct tcf_ipt *ipt = to_ipt(a); struct xt_action_param par; @@ -280,6 +282,8 @@ TC_INDIRECT_SCOPE int tcf_ipt_act(struct sk_buff *skb, state.out = skb->dev; } + memcpy(saved_cb, skb->cb, sizeof(saved_cb)); + spin_lock(&ipt->tcf_lock); tcf_lastuse_update(&ipt->tcf_tm); @@ -292,6 +296,9 @@ TC_INDIRECT_SCOPE int tcf_ipt_act(struct sk_buff *skb, par.state = &state; par.target = ipt->tcfi_t->u.kernel.target; par.targinfo = ipt->tcfi_t->data; + + memset(IPCB(skb), 0, sizeof(struct inet_skb_parm)); + ret = par.target->target(skb, &par); switch (ret) { @@ -312,6 +319,9 @@ TC_INDIRECT_SCOPE int tcf_ipt_act(struct sk_buff *skb, break; } spin_unlock(&ipt->tcf_lock); + + memcpy(skb->cb, saved_cb, sizeof(skb->cb)); + return result; }