kernel/linux
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ synced 2026-10-18 19:12:56 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Packages Activity
No description
1,078,076 commits 116 branches 5,798 tags 5.6 GiB
  • C 96.9%
  • Assembly 0.9%
  • Rust 0.6%
  • Shell 0.6%
  • Python 0.5%
  • Other 0.3%
Find a file
Hyunwoo Kim 179f1852bd net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers 
commit 48f6a5356a upstream.

Two frag-transfer helpers (__pskb_copy_fclone() and skb_shift()) fail
to propagate the SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG bit in skb_shinfo()->flags when
moving frags from source to destination.  __pskb_copy_fclone() defers
the rest of the shinfo metadata to skb_copy_header() after copying
frag descriptors, but that helper only carries over gso_{size,segs,
type} and never touches skb_shinfo()->flags; skb_shift() moves frag
descriptors directly and leaves flags untouched.  As a result, the
destination skb keeps a reference to the same externally-owned or
page-cache-backed pages while reporting skb_has_shared_frag() as
false.

The mismatch is harmful in any in-place writer that uses
skb_has_shared_frag() to decide whether shared pages must be detoured
through skb_cow_data().  ESP input is one such writer (esp4.c,
esp6.c), and a single nft 'dup to <local>' rule -- or any other
nf_dup_ipv4() / xt_TEE caller -- is enough to land a pskb_copy()'d
skb in esp_input() with the marker stripped, letting an unprivileged
user write into the page cache of a root-owned read-only file via
authencesn-ESN stray writes.

Set SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG on the destination whenever frag descriptors
were actually moved from the source.  skb_copy() and skb_copy_expand()
share skb_copy_header() too but linearize all paged data into freshly
allocated head storage and emerge with nr_frags == 0, so
skb_has_shared_frag() returns false on its own; they need no change.

The same omission exists in skb_gro_receive() and skb_gro_receive_list().
The former moves the incoming skb's frag descriptors into the
accumulator's last sub-skb via two paths (a direct frag-move loop and
the head_frag + memcpy path); the latter chains the incoming skb whole
onto p's frag_list.  Downstream skb_segment() reads only
skb_shinfo(p)->flags, and skb_segment_list() reuses each sub-skb's
shinfo as the nskb -- both p and lp must carry the marker.

The same omission also exists in tcp_clone_payload(), which builds an
MTU probe skb by moving frag descriptors from skbs on sk_write_queue
into a freshly allocated nskb.  The helper falls into the same family
and warrants the same fix for consistency; no TCP TX-side in-place
writer is currently known to reach a user page through this gap, but
a future consumer depending on the marker would regress silently.

The same omission exists in skb_segment(): the per-iteration flag
merge takes only head_skb's flag, and the inner switch that rebinds
frag_skb to list_skb on head_skb-frags exhaustion does not fold the
new frag_skb's flag into nskb.  Fold frag_skb's flag at both sites
so segments drawing frags from frag_list members carry the marker.

Fixes: cef401de7b ("net: fix possible wrong checksum generation")
Fixes: f4c50a4034 ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags")
Suggested-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Suggested-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Suggested-by: Lin Ma <malin89@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Jingguo Tan <tanjingguo@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Aaron Esau <aaron1esau@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Rajat Gupta <rajat.gupta@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ageeJfJHwgzmKXbh@v4bel
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 5.15:
 - skb_gro_receive() and skb_gro_receive_list() are in skbuff.c here
 - Drop change to tcp_clone_payload(), which does not exist here
 - Adjust context in skb_shift()
]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-05-23 13:40:45 +02:00
arch x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent improper isolation of shared resources in Zen2's op cache 2026-05-15 14:48:45 +02:00
block blk-mq-debugfs: add missing debugfs_mutex in blk_mq_debugfs_register_hctxs() 2026-03-04 07:19:59 -05:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:22:01 +02:00
crypto crypto: algif_aead - Fix minimum RX size check for decryption 2026-04-30 11:24:38 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: auxdisplay: ht16k33: Use unevaluatedProperties to fix common property warning 2026-04-18 10:33:29 +02:00
drivers xen/privcmd: fix double free via VMA splitting 2026-04-30 11:24:38 +02:00
fs ksmbd: Fix dangling pointer in krb_authenticate 2026-04-18 10:33:39 +02:00
include ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic 2026-05-15 14:48:45 +02:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:21:45 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: correctly handle io_poll_add() return value on update 2026-04-18 10:33:39 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:05:26 +01:00
kernel ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic 2026-05-15 14:48:45 +02:00
lib netlink: add nla be16/32 types to minlen array 2026-04-18 10:33:37 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather 2026-04-18 10:33:18 +02:00
net
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-28 16:24:07 +02:00
scripts modpost: Amend ppc64 save/restfpr symnames for -Os build 2026-03-04 07:20:06 -05:00
security apparmor: fix race between freeing data and fs accessing it 2026-04-18 10:33:36 +02:00
sound ALSA: ctxfi: Fix missing SPDIFI1 index handling 2026-04-18 10:33:32 +02:00
tools x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent improper isolation of shared resources in Zen2's op cache 2026-05-15 14:48:45 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-06-27 11:05:22 +01:00
virt KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd 2026-02-11 13:35:27 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore 2024-10-17 15:11:10 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: add Andrej Shadura 2021-10-18 20:22:03 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 2025-12-07 06:09:36 +09:00
Makefile Linux 5.15.207 2026-05-15 14:48:46 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.