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@ltrager ltrager commented May 20, 2026

Fixes the following CVE with clean cherry picks from 7.0 stable

Tested by building the nvidia-bos kernel and booting on a GH200

HexRabbit and others added 6 commits May 20, 2026 00:31
MSG_SPLICE_PAGES can attach pages from a pipe directly to an skb. TCP
marks such skbs with SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG after skb_splice_from_iter(),
so later paths that may modify packet data can first make a private
copy. The IPv4/IPv6 datagram append paths did not set this flag when
splicing pages into UDP skbs.

That leaves an ESP-in-UDP packet made from shared pipe pages looking
like an ordinary uncloned nonlinear skb. ESP input then takes the no-COW
fast path for uncloned skbs without a frag_list and decrypts in place
over data that is not owned privately by the skb.

Mark IPv4/IPv6 datagram splice frags with SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG, matching
TCP. Also make ESP input fall back to skb_cow_data() when the flag is
present, so ESP does not decrypt externally backed frags in place.
Private nonlinear skb frags still use the existing fast path.

This intentionally does not change ESP output. In esp_output_head(),
the path that appends the ESP trailer to existing skb tailroom without
calling skb_cow_data() is not reachable for nonlinear skbs:
skb_tailroom() returns zero when skb->data_len is nonzero, while ESP
tailen is positive. Thus ESP output will either use the separate
destination-frag path or fall back to skb_cow_data().

Fixes: cac2661 ("esp4: Avoid skb_cow_data whenever possible")
Fixes: 03e2a30 ("esp6: Avoid skb_cow_data whenever possible")
Fixes: 7da0dde ("ip, udp: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES")
Fixes: 6d8192b ("ip6, udp6: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES")
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Kuan-Ting Chen <h3xrabbit@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ting Chen <h3xrabbit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
If skb_unshare() fails to unshare a packet due to allocation failure in
rxrpc_input_packet(), the skb pointer in the parent (rxrpc_io_thread())
will be NULL'd out.  This will likely cause the call to
trace_rxrpc_rx_done() to oops.

Fix this by moving the unsharing down to where rxrpc_input_call_event()
calls rxrpc_input_call_packet().  There are a number of places prior to
that where we ignore DATA packets for a variety of reasons (such as the
call already being complete) for which an unshare is then avoided.

And with that, rxrpc_input_packet() doesn't need to take a pointer to the
pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer.

Fixes: 2d1faf7 ("rxrpc: Simplify skbuff accounting in receive path")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-4-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fix rxrpc_input_call_event() to only unshare DATA packets and not ACK,
ABORT, etc..

And with that, rxrpc_input_packet() doesn't need to take a pointer to the
pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer.

Fixes: 1f27401 ("rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260422161438.2593376-4-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423200909.3049438-2-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The security operations that verify the RESPONSE packets decrypt bits of it
in place - however, the sk_buff may be shared with a packet sniffer, which
would lead to the sniffer seeing an apparently corrupt packet (actually
decrypted).

Fix this by handing a copy of the packet off to the specific security
handler if the packet was cloned.

Fixes: 17926a7 ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408121252.2249051-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422161438.2593376-5-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
commit aa54b1d upstream.

The DATA-packet handler in rxrpc_input_call_event() and the RESPONSE
handler in rxrpc_verify_response() copy the skb to a linear one before
calling into the security ops only when skb_cloned() is true.  An skb
that is not cloned but still carries externally-owned paged fragments
(e.g. SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set by splice() into a UDP socket via
__ip_append_data, or a chained skb_has_frag_list()) falls through to
the in-place decryption path, which binds the frag pages directly into
the AEAD/skcipher SGL via skb_to_sgvec().

Extend the gate to also unshare when skb_has_frag_list() or
skb_has_shared_frag() is true.  This catches the splice-loopback vector
and other externally-shared frag sources while preserving the
zero-copy fast path for skbs whose frags are kernel-private (e.g. NIC
page_pool RX, GRO).  The OOM/trace handling already in place is reused.

Fixes: d0d5c0c ("rxrpc: Use skb_unshare() rather than skb_cow_data()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 31e62c2 upstream.

The 'dumpability' of a task is fundamentally about the memory image of
the task - the concept comes from whether it can core dump or not - and
makes no sense when you don't have an associated mm.

And almost all users do in fact use it only for the case where the task
has a mm pointer.

But we have one odd special case: ptrace_may_access() uses 'dumpable' to
check various other things entirely independently of the MM (typically
explicitly using flags like PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS).  Including for
threads that no longer have a VM (and maybe never did, like most kernel
threads).

It's not what this flag was designed for, but it is what it is.

The ptrace code does check that the uid/gid matches, so you do have to
be uid-0 to see kernel thread details, but this means that the
traditional "drop capabilities" model doesn't make any difference for
this all.

Make it all make a *bit* more sense by saying that if you don't have a
MM pointer, we'll use a cached "last dumpability" flag if the thread
ever had a MM (it will be zero for kernel threads since it is never
set), and require a proper CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability to override.

Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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nirmoy commented May 20, 2026

Boro review

Latest watcher review: open review

Head: ed47debcd89f

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Cherry-pick digest:
┌──────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────┬─────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│ Local        │ Referenced upstream / Patch subject                              │ Patch-ID   │ Subject │ SoB chain                 │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ ed47debcd89f │ [SAUCE] ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic            │ N/A        │ N/A     │ torvalds, gregkh          │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ dbff49170a1b │ [SAUCE] rxrpc: also unshare data/response packets when paged fra │ N/A        │ N/A     │ imv4bel, torvalds, gregkh │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ f44296c65d79 │ [SAUCE] rxrpc: fix conn-level packet handling to unshare respons │ N/A        │ N/A     │ dhowells, kuba            │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ 12c06cfec4dc │ [SAUCE] rxrpc: fix rxrpc_input_call_event() to only unshare data │ N/A        │ N/A     │ dhowells, kuba            │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ 94e735c97070 │ [SAUCE] rxrpc: fix potential uaf after skb_unshare() failure     │ N/A        │ N/A     │ dhowells, kuba            │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ 0cd2c26c50cf │ [SAUCE] xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags    │ N/A        │ N/A     │ h3xrabbi, klassert        │
└──────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────┴─────────┴───────────────────────────┘

Lint results:
E: ed47debcd89f ("ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic"): not SAUCE/UBUNTU/Revert but has no upstream reference trailer (cherry picked from commit ... or backported from ...)
E: dbff49170a1b ("rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when pag"): not SAUCE/UBUNTU/Revert but has no upstream reference trailer (cherry picked from commit ... or backported from ...)
E: f44296c65d79 ("rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare R"): not SAUCE/UBUNTU/Revert but has no upstream reference trailer (cherry picked from commit ... or backported from ...)
E: 12c06cfec4dc ("rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_input_call_event() to only unshar"): not SAUCE/UBUNTU/Revert but has no upstream reference trailer (cherry picked from commit ... or backported from ...)
E: 94e735c97070 ("rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failu"): not SAUCE/UBUNTU/Revert but has no upstream reference trailer (cherry picked from commit ... or backported from ...)
E: 0cd2c26c50cf ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb fr"): not SAUCE/UBUNTU/Revert but has no upstream reference trailer (cherry picked from commit ... or backported from ...)

PR metadata:
E: PR targets 26.04_linux-nvidia-bos but body has no https://bugs.launchpad.net/... link

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