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Oscar Maes b33a534610 vlan: enforce underlying device type
Currently, VLAN devices can be created on top of non-ethernet devices.

Besides the fact that it doesn't make much sense, this also causes a
bug which leaks the address of a kernel function to usermode.

When creating a VLAN device, we initialize GARP (garp_init_applicant)
and MRP (mrp_init_applicant) for the underlying device.

As part of the initialization process, we add the multicast address of
each applicant to the underlying device, by calling dev_mc_add.

__dev_mc_add uses dev->addr_len to determine the length of the new
multicast address.

This causes an out-of-bounds read if dev->addr_len is greater than 6,
since the multicast addresses provided by GARP and MRP are only 6
bytes long.

This behaviour can be reproduced using the following commands:

ip tunnel add gretest mode ip6gre local ::1 remote ::2 dev lo
ip l set up dev gretest
ip link add link gretest name vlantest type vlan id 100

Then, the following command will display the address of garp_pdu_rcv:

ip maddr show | grep 01:80:c2:00:00:21

Fix the bug by enforcing the type of the underlying device during VLAN
device initialization.

Fixes: 22bedad3ce ("net: convert multicast list to list_head")
Reported-by: syzbot+91161fe81857b396c8a0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/000000000000ca9a81061a01ec20@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Oscar Maes <oscmaes92@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250303155619.8918-1-oscmaes92@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-03-04 18:34:55 -08:00
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