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net: qualcomm: rmnet: restore skb->dev on deaggregated frames

Qualcomm chipsets · CVE-2026-89780
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What is it?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qualcomm: rmnet: restore skb->dev on deaggregated frames rmnet_map_deaggregate() allocates each sub-frame with alloc_skb() and leaves skb->dev NULL. __rmnet_map_ingress_handler() assigns skb->dev = ep->egress_dev only on the data path, but a MAP command frame is dispatched to rmnet_map_command() before that, so rmnet_map_send_ack() runs netif_tx_lock(skb->dev) on a NULL device. An unprivileged user reaches this by unsharing a user+net namespace, creating an rmnet link over a tap device with INGRESS_DEAGGREGATION and INGRESS_MAP_COMMANDS, and writing an aggregated frame carrying a flow-control command to the tap fd. Restore the assignment dropped by 378e25357ac7, so every skb leaving rmnet_map_deaggregate() has a valid device. BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:158) Write of size 4 at addr 00000000000004b4 by task exploit/144 Call Trace: _raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:158) netif_tx_lock (net/sched/sch_generic.c:497) rmnet_map_command (drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_command.c:67) rmnet_rx_handler (drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/r

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First seen
7 d ago
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