CVE-2025-38459 — atm: clip: Fix infinite recursive call of clip_push().

Affected: Linux

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

atm: clip: Fix infinite recursive call of clip_push().

syzbot reported the splat below. [0]

This happens if we call ioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) more than once.

During the first call, clip_mkip() sets clip_push() to vcc->push(), and the second call copies it to clip_vcc->old_push().

Later, when the socket is close()d, vcc_destroy_socket() passes NULL skb to clip_push(), which calls clip_vcc->old_push(), triggering the infinite recursion.

Let's prevent the second ioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) by checking vcc->user_back, which is allocated by the first call as clip_vcc.

Note also that we use lock_sock() to prevent racy calls.

[0]: BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000d66fff8 (stack is ffffc9000d670000..ffffc9000d678000) Oops: stack guard page: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5322 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:clip_push+0x5/0x720 net/atm/clip.c:191 Code: e0 8f aa 8c e8 1c ad 5b fa eb ae 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 55 <41> 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 20 48 89 f3 49 89 fd 48 bd 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d670000 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 1ffff1100235a4a5 RBX: ffff888011ad2508 RCX: ffff8880003c0000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888037f01000 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff8fa104f7…

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CVE-2025-38459 — atm: clip: Fix infinite recursive call of clip_push().