[PATCH net] net: pktgen: fix out-of-bounds write in pktgen_finalize_skb()

From: Yuejie Shi

Date: Tue Jul 28 2026 - 23:18:38 EST


pktgen_finalize_skb() spreads `datalen` bytes over `frags` page
fragments, but the loop that fills skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[] is bounded
only by `datalen > 0` -- there is no `i < frags` check. The
per-fragment length is computed once with a truncating division:

frag_len = min_t(int, datalen / frags, PAGE_SIZE);

The code just above has already capped datalen at frags * PAGE_SIZE, so
a valid partition does exist, but the truncation means the first
frags - 1 fragments can leave more than PAGE_SIZE behind, and the
last-fragment branch only consumes min(datalen, PAGE_SIZE). Writing
datalen as q * frags + r with q = datalen / frags, the loop overruns
whenever

q + r > PAGE_SIZE

because q + r bytes are still outstanding after frags - 1 iterations and
the final fragment can take only PAGE_SIZE of them. The loop then runs
once more, with i == frags, and writes one element past the array.

frags is clamped to MAX_SKB_FRAGS (17) and frags[] is the last member of
struct skb_shared_info, which sits at the very end of the skb head
allocation, so writing frags[17] writes 16 bytes past that allocation.
With PAGE_SIZE == 4096 every pkt_size in [69675, 69689] hits it
(datalen = pkt_size - 58, giving q = 4095 and r >= 2):

modprobe pktgen
echo "add_device dummy0" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
echo "frags 17" > /proc/net/pktgen/dummy0
echo "pkt_size 69675" > /proc/net/pktgen/dummy0
echo start > /proc/net/pktgen/pgctrl

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in pktgen_finalize_skb+0x1e8/0x4a4 [pktgen]
Write of size 8 at addr ffff0000c6b40000 by task kpktgend_0/97
__asan_store8+0xe0/0xe4
pktgen_finalize_skb+0x1e8/0x4a4 [pktgen]
pktgen_thread_worker+0x1f3c/0x2d50 [pktgen]
kthread+0x1c4/0x1e0
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 pfn:0x106b40

nr_frags ends up at 18 as well, so skb_release_data() later walks one
entry past the array too.

Compute the fragment length with DIV_ROUND_UP() instead. datalen is
still <= frags * PAGE_SIZE so the result cannot exceed PAGE_SIZE, but
the fragments now cover datalen exactly and the loop always terminates
on the last one. As a side effect pktgen stops emitting zero-length
fragments when datalen < frags. Bound the loop with `i < frags` as
well, so that a future arithmetic mistake cannot walk off the array
again.

Reaching this needs real root: pktgen creates its /proc/net/pktgen
entries with proc_mkdir()/proc_create_data() at mode 0600 owned by
global root, so unlike /proc/net itself they are not remapped to the
owner of a user namespace, and the module has to be loaded first. It is
still a plain heap overflow behind a documented interface.

Fixes: 7d36a991e8d3 ("pktgen: create num frags requested")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yuejie Shi <syjcnss@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/pktgen.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index 8e185b318288..2dbb7caacd0d 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -2843,8 +2843,8 @@ static void pktgen_finalize_skb(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
}

i = 0;
- frag_len = min_t(int, datalen / frags, PAGE_SIZE);
- while (datalen > 0) {
+ frag_len = min_t(int, DIV_ROUND_UP(datalen, frags), PAGE_SIZE);
+ while (datalen > 0 && i < frags) {
if (unlikely(!pkt_dev->page)) {
int node = numa_node_id();

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2.51.0