From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1 418/609] um: vector: fix use-after-free in vector_mmsg_rx()
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:31:54 +0200
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6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>

commit af421e9aed3920c7ac88c24daa48606c7112feca upstream.

When vector_mmsg_rx() discards a packet whose overlay header fails
verify_header(), it frees the skb and continues the loop:

	if (header_check < 0) {
		dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
		vp->estats.rx_encaps_errors++;
		continue;
	}

The normal and short-packet paths fall through to the bottom of the
loop body, which clears the consumed slot and advances the cursors:

	(*skbuff_vector) = NULL;
	mmsg_vector++;
	skbuff_vector++;

The verify_header() < 0 path skips that via continue, so the freed skb
is left in skbuff_vector[] and the cursors do not advance. The next
iteration reads the same slot, gets the freed skb, and frees it again,
producing a refcount underflow / use-after-free in the RX path.

Discard the slot the same way the other paths do before continuing.

Only transports whose verify_header() can return negative are affected:
GRE and L2TPv3 do so on a cookie/session-id mismatch (raw/tap do not),
so any peer on such a transport can trigger it without authentication.

Fixes: 49da7e64f33e ("High Performance UML Vector Network Driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
@@ -1007,6 +1007,9 @@ static int vector_mmsg_rx(struct vector_
 				 */
 					dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
 					vp->estats.rx_encaps_errors++;
+					(*skbuff_vector) = NULL;
+					mmsg_vector++;
+					skbuff_vector++;
 					continue;
 				}
 				if (header_check > 0) {