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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2025 14:25:34 GMT
From:      Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: f9fc93690aef - main - sys/netinet6: fix memory corruption in in6_ifadd
Message-ID:  <202510021425.592EPYXH034143@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by kp:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=f9fc93690aef7a56f62a051de6231fe2af699728

commit f9fc93690aef7a56f62a051de6231fe2af699728
Author:     Mateusz Guzik <mjg@netgate.com>
AuthorDate: 2025-09-29 15:01:53 +0000
Commit:     Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-10-02 13:33:17 +0000

    sys/netinet6: fix memory corruption in in6_ifadd
    
    The routine allocates the wrong size and then passes it to in6_get_ifid.
    
    At the same time it violates invariants by issuing malloc with M_WAITOK
    while within net epoch section.
    
    Sponsored by:   Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")
---
 sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c b/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c
index 78dc55dd292f..f9684b085767 100644
--- a/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c
+++ b/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c
@@ -1243,9 +1243,8 @@ in6_ifadd(struct nd_prefixctl *pr, int mcast)
 
 		/* No suitable LL address, get the ifid directly */
 		if (ifid_addr == NULL) {
-			struct in6_addr taddr;
-			ifa = ifa_alloc(sizeof(taddr), M_WAITOK);
-			if (ifa) {
+			ifa = ifa_alloc(sizeof(struct in6_ifaddr), M_NOWAIT);
+			if (ifa != NULL) {
 				ib = (struct in6_ifaddr *)ifa;
 				ifid_addr = &ib->ia_addr.sin6_addr;
 				if(in6_get_ifid(ifp, NULL, ifid_addr) != 0) {



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