[PATCH net] vlan: require the MAC header to be present in __vlan_insert_inner_tag()
From: Xiang Mei
Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 04:55:23 EST
__vlan_insert_inner_tag() only guarantees head room via skb_cow_head(),
never that mac_len bytes of MAC header are present. Its ETH_HLEN
wrappers - __vlan_insert_tag() under skb_vlan_push(), and
vlan_insert_tag() under validate_xmit_vlan() on the generic transmit
path - therefore rewrite the first 16 bytes at skb->data: a 12-byte
memmove plus two 2-byte stores at +12 and +14. No caller supplies the
bound, while the pop helpers use skb_ensure_writable()/pskb_may_pull().
An IFF_TUN device has hard_header_len == 0, so packet_snd() accepts a
one-byte AF_PACKET/SOCK_RAW frame. The first vlan push only sets a
hwaccel tag; the next - clsact "action vlan push" or
bpf_skb_vlan_push() - enters the helper with skb->len still 1. The
head comes from skbuff_small_head without __GFP_ZERO, so each push
drags bytes from beyond skb->tail into the frame. After three the
one-byte send leaves as 13 bytes carrying 11 bytes of uninitialised
slab:
0000: 5a b3 62 12 80 88 ff ff 00 b3 62 12 81
`------------------------------'
only 0x5a was sent; the rest is slab, here the top 56 bits of a
linear-map address
Require the MAC header the helper rewrites to be present, so such a
frame is dropped rather than transmitted.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: co+0ea1ac045375cf05@xxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/if_vlan.h | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/if_vlan.h b/include/linux/if_vlan.h
index 20cc16ea4e5a..4846032bf4ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_vlan.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_vlan.h
@@ -365,6 +365,9 @@ static inline int __vlan_insert_inner_tag(struct sk_buff *skb,
const u8 meta_len = mac_len > ETH_TLEN ? skb_metadata_len(skb) : 0;
struct vlan_ethhdr *veth;
+ if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, mac_len)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (skb_cow_head(skb, meta_len + VLAN_HLEN) < 0)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.43.0