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icmp: fix NULL pointer dereference in icmp_tag_validation()
authorWeiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:06:01 +0000 (21:06 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:08:55 +0000 (11:08 +0100)
commit9647e99d2a617c355d2b378be0ff6d0e848fd579
tree981fec9f208c18a0c7b79b1f7451d584ea75fcfa
parent665152cdd8ad0e6e3dc55211802767cf0c6a1836
icmp: fix NULL pointer dereference in icmp_tag_validation()

[ Upstream commit 614aefe56af8e13331e50220c936fc0689cf5675 ]

icmp_tag_validation() unconditionally dereferences the result of
rcu_dereference(inet_protos[proto]) without checking for NULL.
The inet_protos[] array is sparse -- only about 15 of 256 protocol
numbers have registered handlers. When ip_no_pmtu_disc is set to 3
(hardened PMTU mode) and the kernel receives an ICMP Fragmentation
Needed error with a quoted inner IP header containing an unregistered
protocol number, the NULL dereference causes a kernel panic in
softirq context.

 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
 RIP: 0010:icmp_unreach (net/ipv4/icmp.c:1085 net/ipv4/icmp.c:1143)
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  icmp_rcv (net/ipv4/icmp.c:1527)
  ip_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:207)
  ip_local_deliver_finish (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:242)
  ip_local_deliver (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:262)
  ip_rcv (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:573)
  __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6164)
  process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6628)
  handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:561)
  </IRQ>

Add a NULL check before accessing icmp_strict_tag_validation. If the
protocol has no registered handler, return false since it cannot
perform strict tag validation.

Fixes: 8ed1dc44d3e9 ("ipv4: introduce hardened ip_no_pmtu_disc mode")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318130558.1050247-4-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/ipv4/icmp.c