[PATCH net v4 2/5] amt: reject a gateway Query or Data from 0.0.0.0 before a relay is learned

From: Omar Ramadan

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 20:30:05 EST


A gateway's amt_rcv() admits a Membership Query or Multicast Data message
when "saddr != remote_ip" is false. remote_ip is 0 before discovery has
learned a relay (and is reset to 0 by amt_dev_open() and when discovery
gives up), so a packet whose source is 0.0.0.0 would otherwise pass the
equality check and could spoof a Query or inject multicast data.

Reject both when no relay is learned: a 0 remote_ip must match nothing, so
guard the check with !remote_ip. A Query is queued before its event worker
processes it, so the relay address can also change in that window. Recheck
the packet source against the current remote_ip in the handler and discard
stale Queries. Discovery is unaffected because Relay Advertisements are
validated against discovery_ip, not remote_ip.

Fixes: b9022b53adad ("amt: add control plane of amt interface")
Assisted-by: LLM
---
drivers/net/amt.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Omar Ramadan <omar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/amt.c b/drivers/net/amt.c
index 478bd85..c19e67a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/amt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/amt.c
@@ -2472,6 +2472,10 @@ static bool amt_membership_query_handler(struct amt_dev *amt,
if (amtmq->reserved || amtmq->version)
return true;

+ /* A deferred query may outlive a relay address change. */
+ if (ip_hdr(skb)->saddr != READ_ONCE(amt->remote_ip))
+ return true;
+
if (amtmq->nonce != amt->nonce)
return true;

@@ -2948,7 +2952,7 @@ static int amt_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
}
goto out;
case AMT_MSG_MULTICAST_DATA:
- if (saddr != remote_ip) {
+ if (!remote_ip || saddr != remote_ip) {
netdev_dbg(amt->dev, "Invalid Relay IP\n");
err = true;
goto drop;
@@ -2959,7 +2963,7 @@ static int amt_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
else
goto out;
case AMT_MSG_MEMBERSHIP_QUERY:
- if (saddr != remote_ip) {
+ if (!remote_ip || saddr != remote_ip) {
netdev_dbg(amt->dev, "Invalid Relay IP\n");
err = true;
goto drop;