ipv6: flowlabel: cap duplicate leases per socket

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ipv6_flowlabel_get() allocates an ipv6_fl_socklist entry for every
successful GET. The recheck path for a compatible existing flowlabel
links another lease without applying any lease admission check. Repeated
GET requests for one shareable label can therefore grow a socket's lease
list without bound.

Reject a new unprivileged lease once the socket already holds
FL_MAX_PER_SOCK leases. Check this on the shared recheck path so reuse
of a globally interned label, including the fl_intern() collision path,
is covered as well. New-label admission remains under the existing
mem_check() policy.

Use capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) rather than ns_capable(), matching
mem_check(). An unprivileged user must not bypass the cap by creating a
user namespace and a netns where they have CAP_NET_ADMIN, which would
still consume host memory.

Check the capability only when the socket reaches the limit, so
successful unprivileged GET requests below the cap do not generate a
capability audit. Do the admission check before updating linger and
expires so a rejected GET does not refresh the shared label, matching
the existing socket-list allocation failure path.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/83f8535972ff6e3741548476a1d50dec24c758be.1788415194.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Zhiling Zou 2026-09-03 14:23:03 +08:00 • committed by Jakub Kicinski

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