CVE-2021-47572

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

net: nexthop: fix null pointer dereference when IPv6 is not enabled

When we try to add an IPv6 nexthop and IPv6 is not enabled
(!CONFIG_IPV6) we’ll hit a NULL pointer dereference[1] in the error path
of nh_create_ipv6() due to calling ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release. The bug
has been present since the beginning of IPv6 nexthop gateway support.
Commit 1aefd3de7bc6 (“ipv6: Add fib6_nh_init and release to stubs”) tells
us that only fib6_nh_init has a dummy stub because fib6_nh_release should
not be called if fib6_nh_init returns an error, but the commit below added
a call to ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release in its error path. To fix it return
the dummy stub’s -EAFNOSUPPORT error directly without calling
ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release in nh_create_ipv6()'s error path.

[1]
Output is a bit truncated, but it clearly shows the error.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000000
#PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel modede
#PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present pagege
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 4 PID: 638 Comm: ip Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #446
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffff888109f5b8f0 EFLAGS: 00010286^Ac
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888109f5ba28 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8881008a2860
RBP: ffff888109f5b9d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff888109f5b978 R11: ffff888109f5b948 R12: 00000000ffffff9f
R13: ffff8881008a2a80 R14: ffff8881008a2860 R15: ffff8881008a2840
FS: 00007f98de70f100(0000) GS:ffff88822bf00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 0000000100efc000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nh_create_ipv6+0xed/0x10c
rtm_new_nexthop+0x6d7/0x13f3
? check_preemption_disabled+0x3d/0xf2
? lock_is_held_type+0xbe/0xfd
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x23f/0x26a
? check_preemption_disabled+0x3d/0xf2
? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x147/0x147
netlink_rcv_skb+0x61/0xb2
netlink_unicast+0x100/0x187
netlink_sendmsg+0x37f/0x3a0
? netlink_unicast+0x187/0x187
sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x67/0x9b
____sys_sendmsg+0x19d/0x1f9
? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x4c/0x5e
? rcu_read_lock_any_held+0x2a/0x78
___sys_sendmsg+0x6c/0x8c
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xd9/0x102
? sockfd_lookup_light+0x69/0x99
__sys_sendmsg+0x50/0x6e
do_syscall_64+0xcb/0xf2
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f98dea28914
Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b5 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8d 05 e9 5d 0c 00 8b 00 85 c0 75 13 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 c3 0f 1f 00 41 54 41 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53
RSP: 002b:00007fff859f5e68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e2e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000619cb810 RCX: 00007f98dea28914
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fff859f5ed0 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000008
R10: fffffffffffffce6 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 000055c0097ae520 R14: 000055c0097957fd R15: 00007fff859f63a0
</TASK>
Modules linked in: bridge stp llc bonding virtio_net