In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netrom: check buffer length before accessing it Syzkaller reports an uninit value read from ax25cmp when sending raw message through ieee802154 implementation. ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25addr.c:119 ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25addr.c:119 nrdevget+0x20e/0x450 net/netrom/nrroute.c:601 nrrouteframe+0x1a2/0xfc0 net/netrom/nrroute.c:774 nrxmit+0x5a/0x1c0 net/netrom/nrdev.c:144 netdevstartxmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline] netdevstartxmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline] xmitone net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline] devhardstartxmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3564 _devqueuexmit+0x33b8/0x5130 net/core/dev.c:4349 devqueuexmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline] rawsendmsg+0x654/0xc10 net/ieee802154/socket.c:299 ieee802154socksendmsg+0x91/0xc0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:96 socksendmsgnosec net/socket.c:730 [inline] _socksendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline] syssendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2584 syssendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2638 _syssendmsg net/socket.c:2667 [inline] _dosyssendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline] _sesyssendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline] _x64syssendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2674 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0x6b Uninit was created at: slabpostallochook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768 slaballocnode mm/slub.c:3478 [inline] kmemcacheallocnode+0x5e9/0xb10 mm/slub.c:3523 kmallocreserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:560 _allocskb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:651 allocskb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline] allocskbwithfrags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6334 sockallocsendpskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2780 sockallocsendskb include/net/sock.h:1884 [inline] rawsendmsg+0x36d/0xc10 net/ieee802154/socket.c:282 ieee802154socksendmsg+0x91/0xc0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:96 socksendmsgnosec net/socket.c:730 [inline] _socksendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline] syssendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2584 _syssendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2638 _syssendmsg net/socket.c:2667 [inline] _dosyssendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline] _sesyssendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline] _x64syssendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2674 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0x44/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0x6b CPU: 0 PID: 5037 Comm: syz-executor166 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc7-syzkaller-00003-gfbafc3e621c3 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023 ===================================================== This issue occurs because the skb buffer is too small, and it's actual allocation is aligned. This hides an actual issue, which is that nrroute_frame does not validate the buffer size before using it. Fix this issue by checking skb->len before accessing any fields in skb->data. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.