From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit e891b36de161fcd96f12ff83667473e5067b9037 ] If skb_expand_head() returns NULL, skb has been freed and associated dst/idev could also have been freed. We need to hold rcu_read_lock() to make sure the dst and associated idev are alive. Fixes: 5796015fa968 ("ipv6: allocate enough headroom in ip6_finish_output2()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240820160859.3786976-3-edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit e891b36de161fcd96f12ff83667473e5067b9037) Signed-off-by: Harshvardhan Jha <harshvardhan.j.jha@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c index a8475848d0382..48f926157ef8c 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -69,11 +69,15 @@ static int ip6_finish_output2(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff * /* Be paranoid, rather than too clever. */ if (unlikely(hh_len > skb_headroom(skb)) && dev->header_ops) { + /* Make sure idev stays alive */ + rcu_read_lock(); skb = skb_expand_head(skb, hh_len); if (!skb) { IP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTDISCARDS); + rcu_read_unlock(); return -ENOMEM; } + rcu_read_unlock(); } hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb); -- 2.46.0