CVE-2026-43456

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-43456

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()

kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2306!

Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI

RIP: 0010:pskb_expand_head+0xa08/0xfe0 net/core/skbuff.c:2306

RSP: 0018:ffffc90004aff760 EFLAGS: 00010293

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88807e3c8780 RCX: ffffffff89593e0e

RDX: ffff88807b7c4900 RSI: ffffffff89594747 RDI: ffff88807b7c4900

RBP: 0000000000000820 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 00000000961a63e0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88807e3c8780

R13: 00000000961a6560 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 00000000961a63e0

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007fe1a0ed8df0 CR3: 000000002d816000 CR4: 00000000003526f0

Call Trace:

<TASK>

ipgre_header+0xdd/0x540 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:900

dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3439 [inline]

packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3028 [inline]

packet_sendmsg+0x3ae5/0x53c0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3108

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]

__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]

____sys_sendmsg+0xa54/0xc30 net/socket.c:2592

___sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2646

__sys_sendmsg+0x170/0x220 net/socket.c:2678

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x106/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

RIP: 0033:0x7fe1a0e6c1a9

When a non-Ethernet device (e.g. GRE tunnel) is enslaved to a bond,

bond_setup_by_slave() directly copies the slave's header_ops to the

bond device:

bond_dev->header_ops = slave_dev->header_ops;

This causes a type confusion when dev_hard_header() is later called

on the bond device. Functions like ipgre_header(), ip6gre_header(),all use

netdev_priv(dev) to access their device-specific private data. When

called with the bond device, netdev_priv() returns the bond's private

data (struct bonding) instead of the expected type (e.g. struct

ip_tunnel), leading to garbage values being read and kernel crashes.

Fix this by introducing bond_header_ops with wrapper functions that

delegate to the active slave's header_ops using the slave's own

device. This ensures netdev_priv() in the slave's header functions

always receives the correct device.

The fix is placed in the bonding driver rather than individual device

drivers, as the root cause is bond blindly inheriting header_ops from

the slave without considering that these callbacks expect a specific

netdev_priv() layout.

The type confusion can be observed by adding a printk in

ipgre_header() and running the following commands:

ip link add dummy0 type dummy

ip addr add 10.0.0.1/24 dev dummy0

ip link set dummy0 up

ip link add gre1 type gre local 10.0.0.1

ip link add bond1 type bond mode active-backup

ip link set gre1 master bond1

ip link set gre1 up

ip link set bond1 up

ip addr add fe80::1/64 dev bond1 (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References