[PATCH net] netlink: reset skb headers before unicast and multicast filtering

[Kyle Zeng]

Socket filters can use SKF_NET_OFF and SKF_LL_OFF to read relative to
an skb's network and MAC headers. Netlink producers may reserve
headroom without resetting those headers, allowing a receiving socket's
filter to read data before the initialized message.

For example, IWPM HELLO replies are allocated with dev_alloc_skb(),
which reserves NET_SKB_PAD bytes. An unprivileged NETLINK_RDMA user can
attach a classic socket filter and disclose this headroom through the
length of the delivered reply. The resets in netlink_dump() do not help
because IWPM sends a separately allocated skb through netlink_unicast().

Reset both headers before running the receiver's filter in unicast and
broadcast delivery, as is already done for dump skbs. This also covers
other netlink producers that reserve headroom without changing their
allocation or message-building code.

Fixes: b1153f29ee07 ("netlink: make socket filters work on netlink")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 9fdf964224ab..01af3bb144ae 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1363,6 +1363,8 @@ int netlink_unicast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (netlink_is_kernel(sk))
 		return netlink_unicast_kernel(sk, skb, ssk);
 
+	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
+	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
 	if (sk_filter(sk, skb)) {
 		err = skb->len;
 		kfree_skb(skb);
@@ -1497,6 +1499,8 @@ static void do_one_broadcast(struct sock *sk,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	skb_reset_network_header(p->skb2);
+	skb_reset_mac_header(p->skb2);
 	if (sk_filter(sk, p->skb2)) {
 		kfree_skb(p->skb2);
 		p->skb2 = NULL;