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CVE-2026-98503

packet: use ubuf_info completion for TX_RING packets

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

packet: use ubuf_info completion for TX_RING packets

tpacket_snd sends skbs with frags pointing into its ring slots. Slots
are released when skb->destructor is called.

A call to skb_orphan calls skb->destructor before the skb is freed.
This can cause the slot to be reused while still linked into the skb.

Switch to standard zerocopy completion (ubuf_info) so the slot is only
released once all references to the payload are freed or copied.
Restore skb->destructor to standard sock_wfree.

The ubuf_info completion callback can be called with a NULL skb, but
only from net_zcopy_put and related API, used by zerocopy implementations
that hold their own reference on the uarg, such as MSG_ZEROCOPY. This
uarg is only ever completed from skb_zcopy_clear, so skb is always set.

To prevent userspace from aliasing in-flight state on shared ring
slots, allocate tpacket_uarg per packet, rather than per slot. This
adds a small allocation to the transmit path. Use standard kmalloc to
allow backporting to stable kernels.

The uarg holds an sk_wmem_alloc reference, rather than an sk_refcnt
reference. packet_free_tx_ring waits on sk_wmem_alloc before freeing
the ring pages. Always allocate vec->deferred for tx_ring so page-backed
rings also wait on sk_wmem_alloc when skb_copy_ubufs drops page refs
before calling tpacket_ubuf_complete.

Drop the tx_ring.pg_vec test that tpacket_destruct_skb performed before
accessing the slot. The sk_wmem_alloc reference now guarantees that the
slot is valid. The test is also not sufficient by itself, as it reads
pg_vec without pg_vec_lock, so it can race with packet_set_ring.

As a result a slot is released when its payload is copied, which can
be before transmission (e.g., in skb_orphan_frags_rx). If copied
before skb_tx_timestamp() is called, no slot timestamp is recorded,
similar to when skb_orphan() was called early in the datapath before
this patch.

Revert the now unused previous skb_zcopy_.._nouarg infra.

Depends on commit 992cc9f94ca9 ("net/packet: defer vmalloc TX_RING
free until skbs finish").
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Default Statusunaffected
Version 5cd8d46ea1562be80063f53c7c6a5f40224de623
Version < e67c455d79fbf709a94965f09a2be6bf4f4ba5fd
Status affected
Version 5cd8d46ea1562be80063f53c7c6a5f40224de623
Version < eda9bcb721f15a93746a99eabda33d80b86404fd
Status affected
Version 5cd8d46ea1562be80063f53c7c6a5f40224de623
Version < 2a0c9afefc0ecea2cc30ccfbbbc98182a0986191
Status affected
Version 5cd8d46ea1562be80063f53c7c6a5f40224de623
Version < 9518405613863d0bf0700927a21367f5942cf058
Status affected
Version 67f6fba765ef8cb19089d476e3c367212a2fbdfd
Status affected
Version f2a67e68dbaeae7c88e5522873d7b908911f9f77
Status affected
Version 4.14.86
Version < 4.15
Status affected
Version 4.19.7
Version < 4.20
Status affected
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Default Statusaffected
Version 4.20
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 4.20
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.112
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.55
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.2.*
Version 7.2.9
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.3
Status unaffected
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e67c455d79fbf709a94965f09a2be6bf4f4ba5fd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eda9bcb721f15a93746a99eabda33d80b86404fd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a0c9afefc0ecea2cc30ccfbbbc98182a0986191
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9518405613863d0bf0700927a21367f5942cf058