commit 8156210d36a43e76372312c87eb5ea3dbb405a85
author Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tue Sep 02 12:46:42 2025 +0000
committer Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Wed Sep 03 17:06:30 2025 -0700
tree 8dfaffc31f53e369edfe449c646bbd85c5fbdb35
parent a125c8fb9ddbcb0602103a50727a476fd30dec01

ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()

Bernard Pidoux reported a regression apparently caused by commit
c353e8983e0d ("net: introduce per netns packet chains").

skb->dev becomes NULL and we crash in __netif_receive_skb_core().

Before above commit, different kind of bugs or corruptions could happen
without a major crash.

But the root cause is that ax25_kiss_rcv() can queue/mangle input skb
without checking if this skb is shared or not.

Many thanks to Bernard Pidoux for his help, diagnosis and tests.

We had a similar issue years ago fixed with commit 7aaed57c5c28
("phonet: properly unshare skbs in phonet_rcv()").

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@free.fr>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1713f383-c538-4918-bc64-13b3288cd542@free.fr/
Tested-by: Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Joerg Reuter <jreuter@yaina.de>
Cc: David Ranch <dranch@trinnet.net>
Cc: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902124642.212705-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>