CVE-2026-64132

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: ioam: refresh hdr pointer before ioam6_event()

Reported by Sashiko:

In ipv6_hop_ioam(), the hdr pointer is initialized to point into the skbs linear data buffer. Later, the code calls skb_ensure_writable(), which might reallocate the buffer:

if (skb_ensure_writable(skb, optoff + 2 + hdr->opt_len))
	goto drop;

/* Trace pointer may have changed */
trace = (struct ioam6_trace_hdr *)(skb_network_header(skb)
				   + optoff + sizeof(*hdr));

ioam6_fill_trace_data(skb, ns, trace, true);

ioam6_event(IOAM6_EVENT_TRACE, dev_net(skb->dev),
	    GFP_ATOMIC, (void *)trace, hdr->opt_len - 2);

If the skb is cloned or lacks sufficient linear headroom, skb_ensure_writable() will invoke pskb_expand_head(), which reallocates the skbs data buffer and frees the old one, invalidating pointers to it. While the code recalculates the trace pointer immediately after the call to skb_ensure_writable(), it fails to recalculate the hdr pointer.

This patch fixes the above by recalculating the hdr pointer before passing hdr->opt_len to ioam6_event(), so that we avoid any UaF.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24de676da63c1122d2c13b0d546238b66d1b4e62
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5af905aa8e91ff8d94572a1e089558f21dcf24ed
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/769723124b7c3b2bfea4cf68ad292698b87c8d01
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e46e6bc97fb1f339730ff1ba74267fbf48e7a422