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Message-Id: <20251127163219.40389-1-ssrane_b23@ee.vjti.ac.in>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:02:19 +0530
From: Shaurya Rane <ssrane_b23@...vjti.ac.in>
To: davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com
Cc: horms@...nel.org,
	jkarrenpalo@...il.com,
	fmaurer@...hat.com,
	arvid.brodin@...en.se,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	skhan@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linux.dev,
	david.hunter.linux@...il.com,
	khalid@...nel.org,
	Shaurya Rane <ssrane_b23@...vjti.ac.in>,
	syzbot+2fa344348a579b779e05@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2] net/hsr: fix NULL pointer dereference in skb_clone with hw tag insertion

When NETIF_F_HW_HSR_TAG_INS is enabled and frame->skb_std is NULL,
hsr_create_tagged_frame() and prp_create_tagged_frame() call skb_clone()
with a NULL pointer. Similarly, prp_get_untagged_frame() doesn't check
if __pskb_copy() fails before calling skb_clone().

This causes a kernel crash reported by Syzbot:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000f: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000078-0x000000000000007f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5625 Comm: syz.1.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:skb_clone+0xd7/0x3a0 net/core/skbuff.c:2041
Code: 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 23 29 05 f9 49 83 3e 00 0f 85 a0 01 00 00 e8 94 dd 9d f8 48 8d 6b 7e 49 89 ee 49 c1 ee 03 <43> 0f b6 04 26 84 c0 0f 85 d1 01 00 00 44 0f b6 7d 00 41 83 e7 0c
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d00f200 EFLAGS: 00010207
RAX: ffffffff892235a1 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88803372a480
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000820 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 000000000000007e R08: ffffffff8f7d0f77 R09: 1ffffffff1efa1ee
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1efa1ef R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000820 R14: 000000000000000f R15: ffff88805144cc00
FS:  0000555557f6d500(0000) GS:ffff88808d72f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555581d35808 CR3: 000000005040e000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 hsr_forward_do net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:-1 [inline]
 hsr_forward_skb+0x1013/0x2860 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:741
 hsr_handle_frame+0x6ce/0xa70 net/hsr/hsr_slave.c:84
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x10b9/0x4380 net/core/dev.c:5966
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6077 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0x72/0x380 net/core/dev.c:6192
 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6278 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb+0x1cb/0x790 net/core/dev.c:6337
 tun_rx_batched+0x1b9/0x730 drivers/net/tun.c:1485
 tun_get_user+0x2b65/0x3e90 drivers/net/tun.c:1953
 tun_chr_write_iter+0x113/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:1999
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0449f8e1ff
Code: 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24 10 89 7c 24 08 e8 f9 92 02 00 48 8b 54 24 18 48 8b 74 24 10 41 89 c0 8b 7c 24 08 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 31 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 4c 93 02 00 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffd7ad94c90 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f044a1e5fa0 RCX: 00007f0449f8e1ff
RDX: 000000000000003e RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: 00007ffd7ad94d20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000000003e R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007f044a1e5fa0 R14: 00007f044a1e5fa0 R15: 0000000000000003
 </TASK>

Fix this by adding NULL checks for frame->skb_std before calling
skb_clone() in the affected functions.

Reported-by: syzbot+2fa344348a579b779e05@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2fa344348a579b779e05
Fixes: f266a683a480 ("net/hsr: Better frame dispatch")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shaurya Rane <ssrane_b23@...vjti.ac.in>
---
 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c b/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c
index 339f0d220212..8a8559f0880f 100644
--- a/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c
+++ b/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ struct sk_buff *prp_get_untagged_frame(struct hsr_frame_info *frame,
 				__pskb_copy(frame->skb_prp,
 					    skb_headroom(frame->skb_prp),
 					    GFP_ATOMIC);
+			if (!frame->skb_std)
+				return NULL;
 		} else {
 			/* Unexpected */
 			WARN_ONCE(1, "%s:%d: Unexpected frame received (port_src %s)\n",
@@ -341,6 +343,8 @@ struct sk_buff *hsr_create_tagged_frame(struct hsr_frame_info *frame,
 		hsr_set_path_id(frame, hsr_ethhdr, port);
 		return skb_clone(frame->skb_hsr, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	} else if (port->dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_HSR_TAG_INS) {
+		if (!frame->skb_std)
+			return NULL;
 		return skb_clone(frame->skb_std, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	}
 
@@ -385,6 +389,8 @@ struct sk_buff *prp_create_tagged_frame(struct hsr_frame_info *frame,
 		}
 		return skb_clone(frame->skb_prp, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	} else if (port->dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_HSR_TAG_INS) {
+		if (!frame->skb_std)
+			return NULL;
 		return skb_clone(frame->skb_std, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	}
 
-- 
2.34.1


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