When CONFIG_IPV6 is disabled, the udp_sock_create6() function returns 0 (success) without actually creating a socket. Callers such as fou_create() then proceed to dereference the uninitialized socket pointer, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference. The captured NULL deref crash: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018 RIP: 0010:fou_nl_add_doit (net/ipv4/fou_core.c:590 net/ipv4/fou_core.c:764) [...] Call Trace: genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.constprop.0 (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114) genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209) [...] netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550) genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219) netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344) netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894) __sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:727 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:742 (discriminator 1)) __sys_sendto (./include/linux/file.h:62 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/file.h:83 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2183 (discriminator 1)) __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2213 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2209 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2209 (discriminator 1)) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1)) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (net/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130) This patch makes udp_sock_create6 return -EPFNOSUPPORT instead, so callers correctly take their error paths. There is only one caller of the vulnerable function and only privileged users can trigger it. Fixes: fd384412e199b ("udp_tunnel: Seperate ipv6 functions into its own file.") Reported-by: Weiming Shi Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei --- include/net/udp_tunnel.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/net/udp_tunnel.h b/include/net/udp_tunnel.h index d9c6d04bb3b5..fc1fc43345b5 100644 --- a/include/net/udp_tunnel.h +++ b/include/net/udp_tunnel.h @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ int udp_sock_create6(struct net *net, struct udp_port_cfg *cfg, static inline int udp_sock_create6(struct net *net, struct udp_port_cfg *cfg, struct socket **sockp) { - return 0; + return -EPFNOSUPPORT; } #endif -- 2.43.0