CVE: CVE-2023-53831
Published: 2025-12-09
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: read sk->sk_family once in sk_mc_loop()

syzbot is playing with IPV6_ADDRFORM quite a lot these days,
and managed to hit the WARN_ON_ONCE(1) in sk_mc_loop()

We have many more similar issues to fix.

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1593 at net/core/sock.c:782 sk_mc_loop+0x165/0x260
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1593 Comm: kworker/1:3 Not tainted 6.1.40-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/26/2023
Workqueue: events_power_efficient gc_worker
RIP: 0010:sk_mc_loop+0x165/0x260 net/core/sock.c:782
Code: 34 1b fd 49 81 c7 18 05 00 00 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 25 36 6d fd 4d 8b 37 eb 13 e8 db 33 1b fd <0f> 0b b3 01 eb 34 e8 d0 33 1b fd 45 31 f6 49 83 c6 38 4c 89 f0 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc[PII_REDACTED]0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffff846d9b55 RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: ffff88814f884980
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: ffffffff87ae5160 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: ffffc[PII_REDACTED]0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: ffffffff846d9a65
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: ffff88814f884980 R12: dffffc[PII_REDACTED]
R13: ffff88810dbee000 R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: ffff[PII_REDACTED]00
FS: [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff8881f6b00000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2: [PII_REDACTED] CR3: 000000014ee5b000 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]3506e0
DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
[<ffffffff8507734f>] ip6_finish_output2+0x33f/0x1ae0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:83
[<ffffffff85062766>] __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:200 [inline]
[<ffffffff85062766>] ip6_finish_output+0x6c6/0xb10 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:211
[<ffffffff85061f8c>] NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:298 [inline]
[<ffffffff85061f8c>] ip6_output+0x2bc/0x3d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:232
[<ffffffff852071cf>] dst_output include/net/dst.h:444 [inline]
[<ffffffff852071cf>] ip6_local_out+0x10f/0x140 net/ipv6/output_core.c:161
[<ffffffff83618fb4>] ipvlan_process_v6_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:483 [inline]
[<ffffffff83618fb4>] ipvlan_process_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:529 [inline]
[<ffffffff83618fb4>] ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:602 [inline]
[<ffffffff83618fb4>] ipvlan_queue_xmit+0x1174/0x1be0 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:677
[<ffffffff8361ddd9>] ipvlan_start_xmit+0x49/0x100 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:229
[<ffffffff84763fc0>] netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4925 [inline]
[<ffffffff84763fc0>] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3644 [inline]
[<ffffffff84763fc0>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x320/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660
[<ffffffff8494c650>] sch_direct_xmit+0x2a0/0x9c0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:342
[<ffffffff8494d883>] qdisc_restart net/sched/sch_generic.c:407 [inline]
[<ffffffff8494d883>] __qdisc_run+0xb13/0x1e70 net/sched/sch_generic.c:415
[<ffffffff8478c426>] qdisc_run+0xd6/0x260 include/net/pkt_sched.h:125
[<ffffffff84796eac>] net_tx_action+0x7ac/0x940 net/core/dev.c:5247
[<ffffffff858002bd>] __do_softirq+0x2bd/0x9bd kernel/softirq.c:599
[<ffffffff814c3fe8>] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:430 [inline]
[<ffffffff814c3fe8>] __irq_exit_rcu+0xc8/0x170 kernel/softirq.c:683
[<ffffffff814c3f09>] irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:695
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41f10a4d78fe69d685a3172e6884297f233dcf95; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7586a66b9c4f1b8a825ea1dfa3a91aad5cc7b89b; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/895dc4c47171a20035cdaa8d74c1c1e97f2fc974