From: Qihang Tang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com> mainline inclusion from mainline-v7.2-rc7 commit 3b9a324e646d3657a8d9806dfbfe4f3e4066e882 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://atomgit.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/18208 CVE: CVE-2026-74668 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i... -------------------------------- dev_validate_header() reads dev->hard_header_len directly when zero-padding short link layer headers for CAP_SYS_RAWIO holders: if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) { memset(ll_header + len, 0, dev->hard_header_len - len); return true; } Packet send paths call dev_validate_header() on skbs whose headroom was allocated from an earlier hard_header_len read. If the device is reconfigured so that dev->hard_header_len increases before validation, the memset writes past the reserved buffer, an out-of-bounds write. This out-of-bounds write is masked in some SOCK_RAW paths today because the same concurrent increase can first make skb_push() exceed the reserved headroom and trigger skb_under_panic(). Remove the zero-padding branch before making those hard_header_len reads consistent, so the snapshot fixes do not turn a loud panic into a silent overwrite. This path is only reached for variable length L2 protocols, where len < hard_header_len but len >= min_header_len. No remaining in-tree variable length L2 protocol implements header_ops->validate, and the CAP_SYS_RAWIO bypass that zero-pads and accepts short headers has no real value beyond allowing testing of intentionally malformed input. Drop the CAP_SYS_RAWIO branch. The remaining reads of dev->hard_header_len in dev_validate_header() are comparisons only and have no memory safety impact. Suggested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Fixes: 2793a23aacbd ("net: validate variable length ll headers") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Qihang Tang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260805125729.19220-2-q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: JiangJieHua <jiangjiehua1@huawei.com> --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index a5089c3fe9e66..563e0cfbdb6c3 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -3079,11 +3079,6 @@ static inline bool dev_validate_header(const struct net_device *dev, if (len < dev->min_header_len) return false; - if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) { - memset(ll_header + len, 0, dev->hard_header_len - len); - return true; - } - if (dev->header_ops && dev->header_ops->validate) return dev->header_ops->validate(ll_header, len); -- 2.33.8