[PATCH] rxrpc: Fix the ACK parser to extract the SACK table for parsing
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Sun May 17 07:27:10 PDT 2026
Fix modification of the received skbuff in rxrpc_input_soft_acks() and a
potential incorrect access of the buffer in a fragmented UDP packet (the
packet would probably have to be deliberately pre-generated as fragmented)
when AF_RXRPC tries to extract the contents of the SACK table by copying
out the contents of the SACK table into a buffer before attempting to parse
it.
AF_RXRPC assumes that it can just call skb_condense() and then validly
access the SACK table from skb->data and that it will be a flat buffer -
but skb_condense() can silently fail to do anything under some
circumstances.
Note that whilst rxrpc_input_soft_acks() should be able to parse extended
ACKs, the rest of AF_RXRPC doesn't currently support that.
Further, there's then no need to call skb_condense() in rxrpc_input_ack(),
so don't.
Fixes: d57a3a151660 ("rxrpc: Save last ACK's SACK table rather than marking txbufs")
Reported-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito at gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260513180907.2061972-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
cc: stable at kernel.org
---
input.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/input.c b/net/rxrpc/input.c
index 24aceb183c2c..0c15ebf19eae 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/input.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/input.c
@@ -963,21 +963,34 @@ static void rxrpc_input_soft_acks(struct rxrpc_call *call,
struct rxrpc_skb_priv *sp = rxrpc_skb(skb);
struct rxrpc_txqueue *tq = call->tx_queue;
unsigned long extracted = ~0UL;
- unsigned int nr = 0;
+ unsigned int nr = 0, nsack;
rxrpc_seq_t seq = call->acks_hard_ack + 1;
rxrpc_seq_t lowest_nak = seq + sp->ack.nr_acks;
- u8 *acks = skb->data + sizeof(struct rxrpc_wire_header) + sizeof(struct rxrpc_ackpacket);
+ u8 sack[256] __aligned(sizeof(unsigned long));
+ u8 *acks = sack;
_enter("%x,%x,%u", tq->qbase, seq, sp->ack.nr_acks);
while (after(seq, tq->qbase + RXRPC_NR_TXQUEUE - 1))
tq = tq->next;
+ /* Extract an individual SACK table. A normal SACK table is up to 255
+ * bytes with 1 ACK flag per byte, but an extended SACK table can be up
+ * to 256 bytes with up to 8 ACK/NACK flags per byte. The ACK flags go
+ * across all bit 0's then all bit 1's, then all bit 2's, ...
+ */
+ memset(sack, 0, sizeof(sack));
+ nsack = umin(sp->ack.nr_acks, 256);
+ if (skb_copy_bits(skb,
+ sizeof(struct rxrpc_wire_header) + sizeof(struct rxrpc_ackpacket),
+ sack, nsack) < 0)
+ return;
+
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < sp->ack.nr_acks; i++) {
/* Decant ACKs until we hit a txqueue boundary. */
shiftr_adv_rotr(acks, extracted);
if (i == 256) {
- acks -= i;
+ acks = sack;
i = 0;
}
seq++;
@@ -1117,9 +1130,6 @@ static void rxrpc_input_ack(struct rxrpc_call *call, struct sk_buff *skb)
skb_copy_bits(skb, ioffset, &trailer, sizeof(trailer)) < 0)
return rxrpc_proto_abort(call, 0, rxrpc_badmsg_short_ack_trailer);
- if (nr_acks > 0)
- skb_condense(skb);
-
call->acks_latest_ts = ktime_get_real();
call->acks_hard_ack = hard_ack;
call->acks_prev_seq = prev_pkt;
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