Re: [syzbot] [hams?] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in sk_skb_reason_drop
From: Jeongjun Park
Date: Sat Jan 17 2026 - 06:32:36 EST
#syz test upstream master
---
net/netrom/nr_route.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netrom/nr_route.c b/net/netrom/nr_route.c
index b94cb2ffbaf8..88e9328e594a 100644
--- a/net/netrom/nr_route.c
+++ b/net/netrom/nr_route.c
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ int nr_route_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, ax25_cb *ax25)
unsigned char *dptr;
ax25_cb *ax25s;
int ret;
- struct sk_buff *skbn;
+ struct sk_buff *nskb, *oskb;
/*
* Reject malformed packets early. Check that it contains at least 2
@@ -811,14 +811,14 @@ int nr_route_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, ax25_cb *ax25)
/* We are going to change the netrom headers so we should get our
own skb, we also did not know until now how much header space
we had to reserve... - RXQ */
- if ((skbn=skb_copy_expand(skb, dev->hard_header_len, 0, GFP_ATOMIC)) == NULL) {
+ if ((nskb = skb_copy_expand(skb, dev->hard_header_len, 0, GFP_ATOMIC)) == NULL) {
nr_node_unlock(nr_node);
nr_node_put(nr_node);
dev_put(dev);
return 0;
}
- kfree_skb(skb);
- skb=skbn;
+ oskb = skb;
+ skb = nskb;
skb->data[14]--;
dptr = skb_push(skb, 1);
@@ -837,6 +837,8 @@ int nr_route_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, ax25_cb *ax25)
nr_node_unlock(nr_node);
nr_node_put(nr_node);
+ if (ret)
+ kfree_skb(oskb);
return ret;
}
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