netdev - [PATCH net] ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss

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Message-ID: <20250902124642.212705-1-edumazet@google.com>
Date: Tue,  2 Sep 2025 12:46:42 +0000
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@...e.fr>, Joerg Reuter <jreuter@...na.de>, 
	linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, David Ranch <dranch@...nnet.net>, 
	Dan Cross <crossd@...il.com>, Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()

Bernard Pidoux reported a regression apparently caused by commit
c353e8983e0d ("net: introduce per netns packet chains").

skb->dev becomes NULL and we crash in __netif_receive_skb_core().

Before above commit, different kind of bugs or corruptions could happen
without a major crash.

But the root cause is that ax25_kiss_rcv() can queue/mangle input skb
without checking if this skb is shared or not.

Many thanks to Bernard Pidoux for his help, diagnosis and tests.

We had a similar issue years ago fixed with commit 7aaed57c5c28
("phonet: properly unshare skbs in phonet_rcv()").

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@...e.fr>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1713f383-c538-4918-bc64-13b3288cd542@free.fr/
Tested-by: Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@...e.fr>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Joerg Reuter <jreuter@...na.de>
Cc: linux-hams@...r.kernel.org
Cc: David Ranch <dranch@...nnet.net>
Cc: Dan Cross <crossd@...il.com>
Cc: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>
---
 net/ax25/ax25_in.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ax25/ax25_in.c b/net/ax25/ax25_in.c
index 1cac25aca637..f2d66af86359 100644
--- a/net/ax25/ax25_in.c
+++ b/net/ax25/ax25_in.c
@@ -433,6 +433,10 @@ static int ax25_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 int ax25_kiss_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 		  struct packet_type *ptype, struct net_device *orig_dev)
 {
+	skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!skb)
+		return NET_RX_DROP;
+
 	skb_orphan(skb);
 
 	if (!net_eq(dev_net(dev), &init_net)) {
-- 
2.51.0.318.gd7df087d1a-goog