hsr: Fix uninit-value access in hsr_get_node()
CVE: CVE-2024-26863
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-20
Severity: Low
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2024-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hsr: Fix uninit-value access in hsr_get_node()

KMSAN reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]:

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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hsr_get_node+0xa2e/0xa40 net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c:246
 hsr_get_node+0xa2e/0xa40 net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c:246
 fill_frame_info net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:577 [inline]
 hsr_forward_skb+0xe12/0x30e0 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:615
 hsr_dev_xmit+0x1a1/0x270 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:223
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3564
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x33b8/0x5130 net/core/dev.c:4349
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]
 packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6b0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276
 packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3087 [inline]
 packet_sendmsg+0x8b1d/0x9f30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x735/0xa10 net/socket.c:2191
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2199
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5e9/0xb10 mm/slub.c:3523
 kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:560
 __alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:651
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6334
 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2787
 packet_alloc_skb net/packet/af_packet.c:2936 [inline]
 packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3030 [inline]
 packet_sendmsg+0x70e8/0x9f30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x735/0xa10 net/socket.c:2191
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2203 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2199 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x125/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2199
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

CPU: 1 PID: 5033 Comm: syz-executor334 Not tainted 6.7.0-syzkaller-00562-g9f8413c4a66f #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023
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If the packet type ID field in the Ethernet header is either ETH_P_PRP or
ETH_P_HSR, but it is not followed by an HSR tag, hsr_get_skb_sequence_nr()
reads an invalid value as a sequence number. This causes the above issue.

This patch fixes the issue by returning NULL if the Ethernet header is not
followed by an HSR tag.


Remediation:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.