From: Kyle Zeng End.DX4 and End.DT4 decapsulate an IPv4 packet through decap_and_validate() and send it directly to IPv4 routing. The inner packet therefore bypasses ip_rcv_core(), which normally clears IPCB before IPv4 interprets skb->cb. The skb instead retains IP6CB data from the outer packet. IP6CB and IPCB use the same skb->cb storage, so IP6CB(skb)->lastopt overlaps IPCB(skb)->opt.optlen and srr, while IP6CB(skb)->nhoff overlaps rr and ts. The sender can make the stale optlen byte nonzero with a valid outer extension-header chain. The reproducers put an eight-byte Destination Options header immediately after the 40-byte IPv6 header and before the Segment Routing Header. ipv6_destopt_rcv() records the sender-controlled Destination Options offset in both lastopt and nhoff, setting them to 40. On the reproduced little-endian x86-64 kernel, IPv4 therefore sees optlen = 40 and rr = 40. Both tcp_v4_save_options() and __ip_options_echo() skip option copying when optlen is zero. Here optlen is 40, so the TCP SYN path allocates room for 40 bytes of option data and calls __ip_options_echo(). The stale rr value makes that function read inner packet byte 41 as the Record Route option length. The reproducers set that sender-controlled byte to 255, so __ip_options_echo() copies 255 bytes into the 40-byte option-data area. Separate End.DX4 and End.DT4 reproducers on the unpatched v7.2-rc5 kernel both produced: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __ip_options_echo() Write of size 255 The relevant End.DX4 call path is: __ip_options_echo tcp_v4_route_req tcp_conn_request tcp_v4_conn_request tcp_rcv_state_process tcp_v4_do_rcv tcp_v4_rcv ip_protocol_deliver_rcu ip_local_deliver_finish ip_local_deliver input_action_end_dx4_finish input_action_end_dx4 The relevant End.DT4 call path is: __ip_options_echo tcp_v4_route_req tcp_conn_request tcp_v4_conn_request tcp_rcv_state_process tcp_v4_do_rcv tcp_v4_rcv ip_protocol_deliver_rcu ip_local_deliver_finish ip_local_deliver input_action_end_dt4 tcp_v4_save_options() is inlined into the tcp_v4_route_req() path, so it does not appear as a separate frame. When decap_and_validate() handles IPPROTO_IPIP, save the ingress interface from IP6CB, clear IPCB, and restore the saved value. Doing this in the common decapsulation path covers End.DX4, End.DT4, and End.DT46's IPv4 arm. Use IP6CB(skb)->iif rather than skb->skb_iif. These actions run after l3mdev processing, which can replace skb_iif with the L3 master; IP6CB iif still records the receiving interface set at IPv6 ingress. Fixes: 891ef8dd2a8d ("ipv6: sr: implement additional seg6local actions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Andrea Mayer Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Codex:gpt-5.5-cyber Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng Co-developed-by: David Lee Signed-off-by: David Lee --- Changes in v4: - Explain how the stale occurs. - Include the observed End.DX4 and End.DT4 call paths. v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260810154732.850472-1-david.lee@trailofbits.com/ Changes in v3: - Clear IPCB in the common IPPROTO_IPIP decapsulation path so End.DX4, End.DT4, and End.DT46's IPv4 arm are covered. - Preserve the ingress interface from IP6CB instead of skb->skb_iif, which can identify the VRF master after l3mdev processing. - Update the Fixes tag to the commit that introduced End.DX4. - Include the End.DX4 and End.DT4 KASAN evidence. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260804094625.715305-1-david.lee@trailofbits.com/ v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260731140832.567669-1-david.lee@trailofbits.com/ net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/seg6_local.c b/net/ipv6/seg6_local.c index 2b41e4c0dddd..95ea0b62729a 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/seg6_local.c +++ b/net/ipv6/seg6_local.c @@ -256,6 +256,13 @@ static bool decap_and_validate(struct sk_buff *skb, int proto) if (iptunnel_pull_offloads(skb)) return false; + if (proto == IPPROTO_IPIP) { + int iif = IP6CB(skb)->iif; + + memset(IPCB(skb), 0, sizeof(*IPCB(skb))); + IPCB(skb)->iif = iif; + } + return true; } -- 2.53.0