[PATCH v4 0/2] net: bonding: fix type-confusion in bonding header_ops

From: Kota Toda

Date: Thu Mar 05 2026 - 06:15:16 EST


In bond_setup_by_slave(), the slave’s header_ops are unconditionally
copied into the bonding device. As a result, the bonding device may invoke
the slave-specific header operations on itself, causing
netdev_priv(bond_dev) (a struct bonding) to be incorrectly interpreted
as the slave's private-data type.

This type-confusion bug can lead to out-of-bounds writes into the skb,
resulting in memory corruption.

Patch 1 stores the slave's header_ops in struct bonding and sets
wrapper callbacks in bond_In bond_setup_by_slave(), the slave’s
header_ops are unconditionally
copied into the bonding device. As a result, the bonding device may invoke
the slave-specific header operations on itself, causing
netdev_priv(bond_dev) (a struct bonding) to be incorrectly interpreted
as the slave's private-data type.

Patch 2 uses READ_ONCE when loading header_ops callbacks
to avoid races with concurrent updates.

Fixes: 1284cd3a2b74 ("bonding: two small fixes for IPoIB support")
Signed-off-by: Kota Toda <kota.toda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Yuki Koike <yuki.koike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yuki Koike <yuki.koike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Kota Toda (2):
net: bonding: fix type-confusion in bonding header_ops
net: add READ_ONCE for header_ops callbacks

drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 41 ++++++++++++++------
include/net/bonding.h | 5 +++
include/net/cfg802154.h | 2 +-
net/core/neighbour.c | 6 +--
net/ipv4/arp.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 2 +-
7 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

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