From 80230a18c164a4b5bbc048fe2768b219ac17bc5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandra Winter Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:55:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] net/iucv: filter frames in afiucv_hs_rcv() by ingress device afiucv_hs_rcv() selects a socket from iucv_sk_list by matching four 8-byte name fields in the transport header alone. No check is made against the net_device the frame arrived on. This can cause a frame arriving on any netdev to be delivered to an AF_IUCV socket. Three problems follow. First, a frame arriving over HiperSockets can be delivered to a socket bound to the classic z/VM IUCV transport, which has iucv->hs_dev == NULL. iucv_sock_bind() takes the classic path whenever the requested userid matches iucv_userid, even on a guest that also has a HiperSockets device carrying the same identifier. The child socket created by afiucv_hs_callback_syn() for such a match inherits hs_dev = NULL and transport = AF_IUCV_TRANS_HIPER, so the first send() on it returns -ENODEV. The socket delivered to accept() is unusable. Second, a frame arriving on one netdev can be delivered to a socket bound to a different IQD device. Which can lead to - Accept-queue exhaustion (DoS) - Attacker-controlled peer identity in the child socket - Data injection into existing sockets - Fabric noise on the IQD fabric, where bogus replies are sent - killing established connections Third, all AF_IUCV sockets live in init_net, as iucv_sock_alloc() calls sk_alloc(&init_net, ...). But even frames arriving on netdev devices in a namespace can be delivered to an IUCV socket. So a process in an unprivileged user and network namespace holding only the CAP_NET_RAW capability valid within that namespace can send a raw ETH_P_AF_IUCV frame on its own lo device and have it matched against init_net sockets. Fix all three by skipping any socket whose hs_dev does not match the ingress device. A classic z/VM IUCV socket has hs_dev == NULL; the ingress dev is never NULL, so classic sockets are skipped automatically. An unbound HIPER socket also has hs_dev == NULL and is skipped. A bound HIPER socket is only reachable from the exact IQD device it was bound to. Because hs_dev is always a device in init_net (iucv_sock_bind() scans for_each_netdev_rcu(&init_net, ...) exclusively), a frame whose ingress device belongs to another namespace never matches any socket. Note that AF_IUCV over HiperSockets provides no per-connection authentication: no sequence numbers, no TLS, no nonce. The four name fields identifying a connection are exchanged in plaintext on the shared HiperSockets segment (VCHID). Any host on the same HiperSockets segment could spoof any frame type against an existing connection. That is a protocol-level property unchanged by this patch. The fix reduces the attack surface to peers present on the same HiperSockets segment. Fixes: 3881ac441f64 ("af_iucv: add HiperSockets transport") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Co-developed-by: Bryam Vargas Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260821125501.3718748-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/iucv/af_iucv.c b/net/iucv/af_iucv.c index ea047bab65e7..4e5cc9da6e06 100644 --- a/net/iucv/af_iucv.c +++ b/net/iucv/af_iucv.c @@ -2079,6 +2079,8 @@ static int afiucv_hs_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, sk = NULL; read_lock(&iucv_sk_list.lock); sk_for_each(sk, &iucv_sk_list.head) { + if (iucv_sk(sk)->hs_dev != dev) + continue; if (trans_hdr->flags == AF_IUCV_FLAG_SYN) { if ((!memcmp(&iucv_sk(sk)->src_name, trans_hdr->destAppName, 8)) &&