Affected: Linux

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

ipv6: ensure sane device mtu in tunnels

Another syzbot report [1] with no reproducer hints at a bug in ip6_gre tunnel (dev:ip6gretap0)

Since ipv6 mcast code makes sure to read dev->mtu once and applies a sanity check on it (see commit b9b312a7a451 "ipv6: mcast: better catch silly mtu values"), a remaining possibility is that a layer is able to set dev->mtu to an underflowed value (high order bit set).

This could happen indeed in ip6gre_tnl_link_config_route(), ip6_tnl_link_config() and ipip6_tunnel_bind_dev()

Make sure to sanitize mtu value in a local variable before it is written once on dev->mtu, as lockless readers could catch wrong temporary value.

[1] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffff80000b7a2f38 len:40 put:40 head:ffff000149dcf200 data:ffff000149dcf2b0 tail:0xd8 end:0xc0 dev:ip6gretap0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:120 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 10241 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7-syzkaller-18095-gbbed346d5a96 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/30/2022 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : skb_panic+0x4c/0x50 net/core/skbuff.c:116 lr : skb_panic+0x4c/0x50 net/core/skbuff.c:116 sp : ffff800020dd3b60 x29: ffff800020dd3b70 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff00010df2a800 x26: 00000000…