Vulnerability CVE-2024-33621
Published: 2024-06-21

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipvlan: Dont Use skb->sk in ipvlan_process_v{4,6}_outbound

Raw packet from PF_PACKET socket ontop of an IPv6-backed ipvlan device will
hit WARN_ON_ONCE() in sk_mc_loop() through sch_direct_xmit() path.

WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at net/core/sock.c:775 sk_mc_loop+0x2d/0x70
Modules linked in: sch_netem ipvlan rfkill cirrus drm_shmem_helper sg drm_kms_helper
CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.9.0+ #279
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:sk_mc_loop+0x2d/0x70
Code: fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 65 0f b7 15 f7 96 a3 4f 31 c0 66 85 d2 75 26 48 85 ff 74 1c
RSP: 0018:ffffa9584015cd78 EFLAGS: 00010212
RAX: 0000000000000011 RBX: ffff91e585793e00 RCX: 0000000002c6a001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: ffff91e589c0f000
RBP: ffff91e5855bd100 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 3d00545216f43d00
R10: ffff91e584fdcc50 R11: 00000060dd8616f4 R12: ffff91e58132d000
R13: ffff91e584fdcc68 R14: ffff91e5869ce800 R15: ffff91e589c0f000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff91e898100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f788f7c44c0 CR3: 0000000008e1a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
? __warn (kernel/panic.c:693)
? sk_mc_loop (net/core/sock.c:760)
? report_bug (lib/bug.c:201 lib/bug.c:219)
? handle_bug (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:239)
? exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:260 (discriminator 1))
? asm_exc_invalid_op (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:621)
? sk_mc_loop (net/core/sock.c:760)
ip6_finish_output2 (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:83 (discriminator 1))
? nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:626)
ip6_finish_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:222)
? __pfx_ip6_finish_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:215)
ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 (drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:602) ipvlan
ipvlan_start_xmit (drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:226) ipvlan
dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3594)
sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:343)
__qdisc_run (net/sched/sch_generic.c:416)
net_tx_action (net/core/dev.c:5286)
handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:555)
__irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:589)
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1043)

The warning triggers as this:
packet_sendmsg
packet_snd //skb->sk is packet sk
__dev_queue_xmit
__dev_xmit_skb //q->enqueue is not NULL
__qdisc_run
sch_direct_xmit
dev_hard_start_xmit
ipvlan_start_xmit
ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 //l3 mode
ipvlan_process_outbound //vepa flag
ipvlan_process_v6_outbound
ip6_local_out
__ip6_finish_output
ip6_finish_output2 //multicast packet
sk_mc_loop //sk->sk_family is AF_PACKET

Call ip{6}_local_out() with NULL sk in ipvlan as other tunnels to fix this.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0049a623dfbbb49888de7f0c2f33a582b5ead989
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54768bacfde60e8e4757968d79f8726711dd2cf5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1abbf079da59ef559d0ab4219d2a0302f7970761
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/183c4b416454b9983dc1b8aa0022b748911adc48
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb53706a3403ba67f4040b2a82d9cf79e11b1a48
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54213c09801e0bd2549ac42961093be36f65a7d0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13c4543db34e0da5a7d2f550b6262d860f248381
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3dc6e8003b500861fa307e9a3400c52e78e4d3a
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