GRE tunnel has its own header_ops, ipgre_header_ops, and sets it conditionally. When it is set, it assumes the outer IP header is already created before ipgre_xmit().
This is not true when we send packets through a raw packet socket, where L2 headers are supposed to be constructed by user. Packet socket calls dev_validate_header() to validate the header. But GRE tunnel does not set dev->hard_header_len, so that check can be simply bypassed, therefore uninit memory could be passed down to ipgre_xmit(). Fix this by setting dev->hard_header_len whenever sets header_ops, as dev->hard_header_len is supposed to be the length of the header created by dev->header_ops->create() anyway. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+4a2c52677a8a1aa28...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: William Tu <u9012...@gmail.com> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> --- net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c index 4e31f23e4117..43b62095559e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c @@ -987,10 +987,12 @@ static int ipgre_tunnel_init(struct net_device *dev) return -EINVAL; dev->flags = IFF_BROADCAST; dev->header_ops = &ipgre_header_ops; + dev->hard_header_len = tunnel->hlen + sizeof(*iph); } #endif } else if (!tunnel->collect_md) { dev->header_ops = &ipgre_header_ops; + dev->hard_header_len = tunnel->hlen + sizeof(*iph); } return ip_tunnel_init(dev); -- 2.28.0