From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>,
	Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12 1080/1102] ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:17:03 +0100
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6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>

[ Upstream commit e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10d ]

IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb->sk association installed by
bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under
RCU. Both address families can also prefetch a socket in UDP early demux.
In both paths (BPF and UDP early demux) a reference is not guaranteed to
be held on the socket.

When a multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the
original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the
original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the
skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the
receive-side RCU section ends.

After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes
sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb->sk. Orphan the skb before
each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the
original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding
with a socket-free clone.

Fixes: cf7fbe660f2d ("bpf: Add socket assign support")
Fixes: 08842c43d016 ("udp: no longer touch sk->sk_refcnt in early demux")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0c52eb3d7532aaf8bccf37e0f7c922143c639735.1786552223.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/ipmr.c      |    3 +++
 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
@@ -2140,6 +2140,9 @@ int ip_mr_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (IPCB(skb)->flags & IPSKB_FORWARDED)
 		goto dont_forward;
 
+	if (!local)
+		skb_orphan(skb);
+
 	mrt = ipmr_rt_fib_lookup(net, skb);
 	if (IS_ERR(mrt)) {
 		kfree_skb(skb);
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ int ip6_mc_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		if (deliver) {
 			skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		} else {
+			skb_orphan(skb);
 			skb2 = skb;
 			skb = NULL;
 		}