linux.git/net/core, branch v6.12.80 Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git net: add proper RCU protection to /proc/net/ptype 2026-04-02T11:09:50+00:00 Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com 2026-03-31T07:12:24+00:00 dcefd3f0b9ed8288654c75254bdcee8e1085e861 [ Upstream commit f613e8b4afea0cd17c7168e8b00e25bc8d33175d ] Yin Fengwei reported an RCU stall in ptype_seq_show() and provided a patch. Real issue is that ptype_seq_next() and ptype_seq_show() violate RCU rules. ptype_seq_show() runs under rcu_read_lock(), and reads pt->dev to get device name without any barrier. At the same time, concurrent writers can remove a packet_type structure (which is correctly freed after an RCU grace period) and clear pt->dev without an RCU grace period. Define ptype_iter_state to carry a dev pointer along seq_net_private: struct ptype_iter_state { struct seq_net_private p; struct net_device *dev; // added in this patch }; We need to record the device pointer in ptype_get_idx() and ptype_seq_next() so that ptype_seq_show() is safe against concurrent pt->dev changes. We also need to add full RCU protection in ptype_seq_next(). (Missing READ_ONCE() when reading list.next values) Many thanks to Dong Chenchen for providing a repro. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Fixes: 1d10f8a1f40b ("net-procfs: show net devices bound packet types") Fixes: c353e8983e0d ("net: introduce per netns packet chains") Reported-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei_yin@linux.alibaba.com> Reported-by: Dong Chenchen <dongchenchen2@huawei.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CANn89iKRRKPnWjJmb-_3a=sq+9h6DvTQM4DBZHT5ZRGPMzQaiA@mail.gmail.com/T/#m7b80b9fc9b9267f90e0b7aad557595f686f9c50d Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Tested-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei_yin@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260202205217.2881198-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> [ Some adjustments have been made. ] Signed-off-by: XiaoHua Wang <561399680@139.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit f613e8b4afea0cd17c7168e8b00e25bc8d33175d ]

Yin Fengwei reported an RCU stall in ptype_seq_show() and provided
a patch.

Real issue is that ptype_seq_next() and ptype_seq_show() violate
RCU rules.

ptype_seq_show() runs under rcu_read_lock(), and reads pt->dev
to get device name without any barrier.

At the same time, concurrent writers can remove a packet_type structure
(which is correctly freed after an RCU grace period) and clear pt->dev
without an RCU grace period.

Define ptype_iter_state to carry a dev pointer along seq_net_private:

struct ptype_iter_state {
	struct seq_net_private	p;
	struct net_device	*dev; // added in this patch
};

We need to record the device pointer in ptype_get_idx() and
ptype_seq_next() so that ptype_seq_show() is safe against
concurrent pt->dev changes.

We also need to add full RCU protection in ptype_seq_next().
(Missing READ_ONCE() when reading list.next values)

Many thanks to Dong Chenchen for providing a repro.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: 1d10f8a1f40b ("net-procfs: show net devices bound packet types")
Fixes: c353e8983e0d ("net: introduce per netns packet chains")
Reported-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei_yin@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Dong Chenchen <dongchenchen2@huawei.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CANn89iKRRKPnWjJmb-_3a=sq+9h6DvTQM4DBZHT5ZRGPMzQaiA@mail.gmail.com/T/#m7b80b9fc9b9267f90e0b7aad557595f686f9c50d

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Tested-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei_yin@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260202205217.2881198-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[ Some adjustments have been made. ]
Signed-off-by: XiaoHua Wang <561399680@139.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
rtnetlink: count IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_KIND in if_nlmsg_size 2026-04-02T11:09:33+00:00 Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net 2026-03-19T23:02:53+00:00 bd2e6b6367a29971aabc7cc450e1ea5928c8ed37 [ Upstream commit ee00a12593ffb69db4dd1a1c00ecb0253376874a ] rtnl_link_get_slave_info_data_size counts IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA, but rtnl_link_slave_info_fill adds both IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA and IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_KIND. Fixes: ba7d49b1f0f8 ("rtnetlink: provide api for getting and setting slave info") Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/049843b532e23cde7ddba263c0bbe35ba6f0d26d.1773919462.git.sd@queasysnail.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit ee00a12593ffb69db4dd1a1c00ecb0253376874a ]

rtnl_link_get_slave_info_data_size counts IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA, but
rtnl_link_slave_info_fill adds both IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA and
IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_KIND.

Fixes: ba7d49b1f0f8 ("rtnetlink: provide api for getting and setting slave info")
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/049843b532e23cde7ddba263c0bbe35ba6f0d26d.1773919462.git.sd@queasysnail.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
dst: fix races in rt6_uncached_list_del() and rt_del_uncached_list() 2026-03-25T10:08:40+00:00 Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com 2026-02-24T06:31:16+00:00 f24a52948c95e02facbca2b3b6eb5a225e27eb01 [ Upstream commit 9a6f0c4d5796ab89b5a28a890ce542344d58bd69 ] syzbot was able to crash the kernel in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev() in an interesting way [1] Crash happens in list_del_init()/INIT_LIST_HEAD() while writing list->prev, while the prior write on list->next went well. static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list) { WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list); // This went well WRITE_ONCE(list->prev, list); // Crash, @list has been freed. } Issue here is that rt6_uncached_list_del() did not attempt to lock ul->lock, as list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached) returned true because the WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list) happened on the other CPU. We might use list_del_init_careful() and list_empty_careful(), or make sure rt6_uncached_list_del() always grabs the spinlock whenever rt->dst.rt_uncached_list has been set. A similar fix is neeed for IPv4. [1] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020 Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880294cfa78 by task kworker/u8:14/3450 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3450 Comm: kworker/u8:14 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595 INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline] list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline] rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline] rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020 addrconf_ifdown+0x143/0x18a0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3853 addrconf_notify+0x1bc/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1 notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline] netif_close_many+0x29c/0x410 net/core/dev.c:1785 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0xb50/0x2330 net/core/dev.c:12353 ops_exit_rtnl_list net/core/net_namespace.c:187 [inline] ops_undo_list+0x3dc/0x990 net/core/net_namespace.c:248 cleanup_net+0x4de/0x7b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:696 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 </TASK> Allocated by task 803: kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline] kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline] __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270 dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89 ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline] icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333 mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline] mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 Freed by task 20: kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline] kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline] __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline] slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline] slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline] kmem_cache_free+0x18f/0x8d0 mm/slub.c:6781 dst_destroy+0x235/0x350 net/core/dst.c:121 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline] rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857 [inline] rcu_cpu_kthread+0xba5/0x1af0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2945 smpboot_thread_fn+0x542/0xa60 kernel/smpboot.c:160 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 Last potentially related work creation: kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3119 [inline] call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3239 refdst_drop include/net/dst.h:266 [inline] skb_dst_drop include/net/dst.h:278 [inline] skb_release_head_state+0x71/0x360 net/core/skbuff.c:1156 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1180 [inline] __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1196 [inline] sk_skb_reason_drop+0xe9/0x170 net/core/skbuff.c:1234 kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline] tcf_kfree_skb_list include/net/sch_generic.h:1127 [inline] __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4260 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x26aa/0x3210 net/core/dev.c:4785 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline] ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247 NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318 mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline] mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880294cfa00 which belongs to the cache ip6_dst_cache of size 232 The buggy address is located 120 bytes inside of freed 232-byte region [ffff8880294cfa00, ffff8880294cfae8) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x294cf memcg:ffff88803536b781 flags: 0x80000000000000(node=0|zone=1) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0080000000000000 ffff88802ff1c8c0 ffffea0000bf2bc0 dead000000000006 raw: 0000000000000000 00000000800c000c 00000000f5000000 ffff88803536b781 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected page_owner tracks the page as allocated page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 9, tgid 9 (kworker/0:0), ts 91119585830, free_ts 91088628818 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline] post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline] get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3915 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210 alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2486 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline] allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248 new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline] ___slab_alloc+0xb10/0x13e0 mm/slub.c:4656 __slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4779 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x101/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270 dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89 ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline] icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333 mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline] mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 page last free pid 5859 tgid 5859 stack trace: reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline] free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline] __free_frozen_pages+0xfe1/0x1170 mm/page_alloc.c:2943 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline] __put_partials+0x149/0x170 mm/slub.c:3886 __slab_free+0x2af/0x330 mm/slub.c:5952 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline] qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270 getname_flags+0xb8/0x540 fs/namei.c:146 getname include/linux/fs.h:2498 [inline] do_sys_openat2+0xbc/0x200 fs/open.c:1426 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline] __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline] __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline] __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1447 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 Fixes: 8d0b94afdca8 ("ipv6: Keep track of DST_NOCACHE routes in case of iface down/unregister") Fixes: 78df76a065ae ("ipv4: take rt_uncached_lock only if needed") Reported-by: syzbot+179fc225724092b8b2b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6964cdf2.050a0220.eaf7.009d.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112103825.3810713-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@163.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit 9a6f0c4d5796ab89b5a28a890ce542344d58bd69 ]

syzbot was able to crash the kernel in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev()
in an interesting way [1]

Crash happens in list_del_init()/INIT_LIST_HEAD() while writing
list->prev, while the prior write on list->next went well.

static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list)
{
	WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list); // This went well
	WRITE_ONCE(list->prev, list); // Crash, @list has been freed.
}

Issue here is that rt6_uncached_list_del() did not attempt to lock
ul->lock, as list_empty(&rt->dst.rt_uncached) returned
true because the WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list) happened on the other CPU.

We might use list_del_init_careful() and list_empty_careful(),
or make sure rt6_uncached_list_del() always grabs the spinlock
whenever rt->dst.rt_uncached_list has been set.

A similar fix is neeed for IPv4.

[1]

 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020
Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880294cfa78 by task kworker/u8:14/3450

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3450 Comm: kworker/u8:14 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
  print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
  kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
  INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:46 [inline]
  list_del_init include/linux/list.h:296 [inline]
  rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev net/ipv6/route.c:191 [inline]
  rt6_disable_ip+0x633/0x730 net/ipv6/route.c:5020
  addrconf_ifdown+0x143/0x18a0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3853
 addrconf_notify+0x1bc/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
  notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85
  call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
  call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
  netif_close_many+0x29c/0x410 net/core/dev.c:1785
  unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0xb50/0x2330 net/core/dev.c:12353
  ops_exit_rtnl_list net/core/net_namespace.c:187 [inline]
  ops_undo_list+0x3dc/0x990 net/core/net_namespace.c:248
  cleanup_net+0x4de/0x7b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:696
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 803:
  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
  unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
  kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
  slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
  dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89
  ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline]
  icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333
  mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844
  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Freed by task 20:
  kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
  kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
  poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
  __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
  kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
  slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
  slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
  kmem_cache_free+0x18f/0x8d0 mm/slub.c:6781
  dst_destroy+0x235/0x350 net/core/dst.c:121
  rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]
  rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857 [inline]
  rcu_cpu_kthread+0xba5/0x1af0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2945
  smpboot_thread_fn+0x542/0xa60 kernel/smpboot.c:160
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Last potentially related work creation:
  kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
  kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
  __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3119 [inline]
  call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3239
  refdst_drop include/net/dst.h:266 [inline]
  skb_dst_drop include/net/dst.h:278 [inline]
  skb_release_head_state+0x71/0x360 net/core/skbuff.c:1156
  skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1180 [inline]
  __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1196 [inline]
  sk_skb_reason_drop+0xe9/0x170 net/core/skbuff.c:1234
  kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline]
  tcf_kfree_skb_list include/net/sch_generic.h:1127 [inline]
  __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4260 [inline]
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x26aa/0x3210 net/core/dev.c:4785
  NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
  ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
  NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
  mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855
  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880294cfa00
 which belongs to the cache ip6_dst_cache of size 232
The buggy address is located 120 bytes inside of
 freed 232-byte region [ffff8880294cfa00, ffff8880294cfae8)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x294cf
memcg:ffff88803536b781
flags: 0x80000000000000(node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000000 ffff88802ff1c8c0 ffffea0000bf2bc0 dead000000000006
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000800c000c 00000000f5000000 ffff88803536b781
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 9, tgid 9 (kworker/0:0), ts 91119585830, free_ts 91088628818
  set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
  post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
  prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
  get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
  __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
  alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
  alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
  allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
  new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
  ___slab_alloc+0xb10/0x13e0 mm/slub.c:4656
  __slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4779
  __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x101/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
  dst_alloc+0x105/0x170 net/core/dst.c:89
  ip6_dst_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:342 [inline]
  icmp6_dst_alloc+0x75/0x460 net/ipv6/route.c:3333
  mld_sendpack+0x683/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1844
  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
page last free pid 5859 tgid 5859 stack trace:
  reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
  free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
  __free_frozen_pages+0xfe1/0x1170 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
  discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline]
  __put_partials+0x149/0x170 mm/slub.c:3886
  __slab_free+0x2af/0x330 mm/slub.c:5952
  qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
  qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
  kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
  kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
  slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
  getname_flags+0xb8/0x540 fs/namei.c:146
  getname include/linux/fs.h:2498 [inline]
  do_sys_openat2+0xbc/0x200 fs/open.c:1426
  do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
  __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
  __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
  __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1447
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

Fixes: 8d0b94afdca8 ("ipv6: Keep track of DST_NOCACHE routes in case of iface down/unregister")
Fixes: 78df76a065ae ("ipv4: take rt_uncached_lock only if needed")
Reported-by: syzbot+179fc225724092b8b2b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6964cdf2.050a0220.eaf7.009d.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112103825.3810713-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions 2026-03-25T10:08:28+00:00 Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com 2026-03-06T16:01:34+00:00 834c4f645726a25fd71ea50cdfb5c135f8f95d85 [ Upstream commit 6f1a9140ecda3baba3d945b9a6155af4268aafc4 ] Tunnel xmit functions (iptunnel_xmit, ip6tunnel_xmit) lack their own recursion limit. When a bond device in broadcast mode has GRE tap interfaces as slaves, and those GRE tunnels route back through the bond, multicast/broadcast traffic triggers infinite recursion between bond_xmit_broadcast() and ip_tunnel_xmit()/ip6_tnl_xmit(), causing kernel stack overflow. The existing XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT (8) in the no-qdisc path is not sufficient because tunnel recursion involves route lookups and full IP output, consuming much more stack per level. Use a lower limit of 4 (IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT) to prevent overflow. Add recursion detection using dev_xmit_recursion helpers directly in iptunnel_xmit() and ip6tunnel_xmit() to cover all IPv4/IPv6 tunnel paths including UDP encapsulated tunnels (VXLAN, Geneve, etc.). Move dev_xmit_recursion helpers from net/core/dev.h to public header include/linux/netdevice.h so they can be used by tunnel code. BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in blake2s.constprop.0+0xe7/0x160 Write of size 32 at addr ffff88810033fed0 by task kworker/0:1/11 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work Call Trace: <TASK> __build_flow_key.constprop.0 (net/ipv4/route.c:515) ip_rt_update_pmtu (net/ipv4/route.c:1073) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:84) ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237) ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237) ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438) iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86) ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847) gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802) bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312) bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279) bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841) mld_sendpack mld_ifc_work process_one_work worker_thread </TASK> Fixes: 745e20f1b626 ("net: add a recursion limit in xmit path") Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306160133.3852900-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 6f1a9140ecda3baba3d945b9a6155af4268aafc4 ]

Tunnel xmit functions (iptunnel_xmit, ip6tunnel_xmit) lack their own
recursion limit. When a bond device in broadcast mode has GRE tap
interfaces as slaves, and those GRE tunnels route back through the
bond, multicast/broadcast traffic triggers infinite recursion between
bond_xmit_broadcast() and ip_tunnel_xmit()/ip6_tnl_xmit(), causing
kernel stack overflow.

The existing XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT (8) in the no-qdisc path is not
sufficient because tunnel recursion involves route lookups and full IP
output, consuming much more stack per level. Use a lower limit of 4
(IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT) to prevent overflow.

Add recursion detection using dev_xmit_recursion helpers directly in
iptunnel_xmit() and ip6tunnel_xmit() to cover all IPv4/IPv6 tunnel
paths including UDP encapsulated tunnels (VXLAN, Geneve, etc.).

Move dev_xmit_recursion helpers from net/core/dev.h to public header
include/linux/netdevice.h so they can be used by tunnel code.

 BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in blake2s.constprop.0+0xe7/0x160
 Write of size 32 at addr ffff88810033fed0 by task kworker/0:1/11
 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __build_flow_key.constprop.0 (net/ipv4/route.c:515)
  ip_rt_update_pmtu (net/ipv4/route.c:1073)
  iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:84)
  ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847)
  gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802)
  bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312)
  bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279)
  bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841)
  ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237)
  ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438)
  iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86)
  gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802)
  bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312)
  bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279)
  bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841)
  ip_finish_output2 (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237)
  ip_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438)
  iptunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:86)
  ip_tunnel_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:847)
  gre_tap_xmit (net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:779)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  sch_direct_xmit (net/sched/sch_generic.c:347)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4802)
  bond_dev_queue_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:312)
  bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5279)
  bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5530)
  dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3887)
  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4841)
  mld_sendpack
  mld_ifc_work
  process_one_work
  worker_thread
  </TASK>

Fixes: 745e20f1b626 ("net: add a recursion limit in xmit path")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306160133.3852900-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
xdp: register system page pool as an XDP memory model 2026-03-25T10:08:28+00:00 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@redhat.com 2024-12-03T17:37:29+00:00 0d070be560e6e28415d1281f8cb6407d0467f579 [ Upstream commit e77d9aee951341119be16a991fcfc76d1154d22a ] To make the system page pool usable as a source for allocating XDP frames, we need to register it with xdp_reg_mem_model(), so that page return works correctly. This is done in preparation for using the system page_pool to convert XDP_PASS XSk frames to skbs; for the same reason, make the per-cpu variable non-static so we can access it from other source files as well (but w/o exporting). Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241203173733.3181246-7-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Stable-dep-of: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit e77d9aee951341119be16a991fcfc76d1154d22a ]

To make the system page pool usable as a source for allocating XDP
frames, we need to register it with xdp_reg_mem_model(), so that page
return works correctly. This is done in preparation for using the system
page_pool to convert XDP_PASS XSk frames to skbs; for the same reason,
make the per-cpu variable non-static so we can access it from other
source files as well (but w/o exporting).

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241203173733.3181246-7-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
xdp: allow attaching already registered memory model to xdp_rxq_info 2026-03-25T10:08:28+00:00 Alexander Lobakin aleksander.lobakin@intel.com 2024-12-03T17:37:27+00:00 2b1c64db6934f46b21f942cf4c72ac49a5ab8620 [ Upstream commit f65966fe0178c06065d354c22fb456fc4370b527 ] One may need to register memory model separately from xdp_rxq_info. One simple example may be XDP test run code, but in general, it might be useful when memory model registering is managed by one layer and then XDP RxQ info by a different one. Allow such scenarios by adding a simple helper which "attaches" already registered memory model to the desired xdp_rxq_info. As this is mostly needed for Page Pool, add a special function to do that for a &page_pool pointer. Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241203173733.3181246-5-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Stable-dep-of: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit f65966fe0178c06065d354c22fb456fc4370b527 ]

One may need to register memory model separately from xdp_rxq_info. One
simple example may be XDP test run code, but in general, it might be
useful when memory model registering is managed by one layer and then
XDP RxQ info by a different one.
Allow such scenarios by adding a simple helper which "attaches"
already registered memory model to the desired xdp_rxq_info. As this
is mostly needed for Page Pool, add a special function to do that for
a &page_pool pointer.

Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241203173733.3181246-5-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net: add a common function to compute features for upper devices 2026-03-25T10:08:28+00:00 Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com 2025-10-17T03:41:52+00:00 744c03df1002f9a83335ff9f62916b6e2caa02ef [ Upstream commit 28098defc79fe7d29e6bfe4eb6312991f6bdc3d3 ] Some high level software drivers need to compute features from lower devices. But each has their own implementations and may lost some feature compute. Let's use one common function to compute features for kinds of these devices. The new helper uses the current bond implementation as the reference one, as the latter already handles all the relevant aspects: netdev features, TSO limits and dst retention. Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017034155.61990-2-liuhangbin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Stable-dep-of: 950803f72547 ("bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 28098defc79fe7d29e6bfe4eb6312991f6bdc3d3 ]

Some high level software drivers need to compute features from lower
devices. But each has their own implementations and may lost some
feature compute. Let's use one common function to compute features
for kinds of these devices.

The new helper uses the current bond implementation as the reference
one, as the latter already handles all the relevant aspects: netdev
features, TSO limits and dst retention.

Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017034155.61990-2-liuhangbin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 950803f72547 ("bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
xdp: produce a warning when calculated tailroom is negative 2026-03-13T16:20:47+00:00 Larysa Zaremba larysa.zaremba@intel.com 2026-03-05T11:12:50+00:00 c7c790a07697148c41e2d03eb28efe132adda749 [ Upstream commit 8821e857759be9db3cde337ad328b71fe5c8a55f ] Many ethernet drivers report xdp Rx queue frag size as being the same as DMA write size. However, the only user of this field, namely bpf_xdp_frags_increase_tail(), clearly expects a truesize. Such difference leads to unspecific memory corruption issues under certain circumstances, e.g. in ixgbevf maximum DMA write size is 3 KB, so when running xskxceiver's XDP_ADJUST_TAIL_GROW_MULTI_BUFF, 6K packet fully uses all DMA-writable space in 2 buffers. This would be fine, if only rxq->frag_size was properly set to 4K, but value of 3K results in a negative tailroom, because there is a non-zero page offset. We are supposed to return -EINVAL and be done with it in such case, but due to tailroom being stored as an unsigned int, it is reported to be somewhere near UINT_MAX, resulting in a tail being grown, even if the requested offset is too much (it is around 2K in the abovementioned test). This later leads to all kinds of unspecific calltraces. [ 7340.337579] xskxceiver[1440]: segfault at 1da718 ip 00007f4161aeac9d sp 00007f41615a6a00 error 6 [ 7340.338040] xskxceiver[1441]: segfault at 7f410000000b ip 00000000004042b5 sp 00007f415bffecf0 error 4 [ 7340.338179] in libc.so.6[61c9d,7f4161aaf000+160000] [ 7340.339230] in xskxceiver[42b5,400000+69000] [ 7340.340300] likely on CPU 6 (core 0, socket 6) [ 7340.340302] Code: ff ff 01 e9 f4 fe ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 4c 39 f0 74 73 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 f0 0f b1 17 0f 85 ba 00 00 00 49 8b 87 88 00 00 00 <4c> 89 70 08 eb cc 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8d bd f0 fe ff ff 89 85 ec fe [ 7340.340888] likely on CPU 3 (core 0, socket 3) [ 7340.345088] Code: 00 00 00 ba 00 00 00 00 be 00 00 00 00 89 c7 e8 31 ca ff ff 89 45 ec 8b 45 ec 85 c0 78 07 b8 00 00 00 00 eb 46 e8 0b c8 ff ff <8b> 00 83 f8 69 74 24 e8 ff c7 ff ff 8b 00 83 f8 0b 74 18 e8 f3 c7 [ 7340.404334] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6d255010bdffc: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 7340.405972] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 1439 Comm: xskxceiver Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1+ #21 PREEMPT(lazy) [ 7340.408006] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-5.fc42 04/01/2014 [ 7340.409716] RIP: 0010:lookup_swap_cgroup_id+0x44/0x80 [ 7340.410455] Code: 83 f8 1c 73 39 48 ba ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 03 48 8b 04 c5 20 55 fa bd 48 21 d1 48 89 ca 83 e1 01 48 d1 ea c1 e1 04 48 8d 04 90 <8b> 00 48 83 c4 10 d3 e8 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c0 e9 98 b7 dd 00 48 89 [ 7340.412787] RSP: 0018:ffffcc5c04f7f6d0 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 7340.413494] RAX: 0006d255010bdffc RBX: ffff891f477895a8 RCX: 0000000000000010 [ 7340.414431] RDX: 0001c17e3fffffff RSI: 00fa070000000000 RDI: 000382fc7fffffff [ 7340.415354] RBP: 00fa070000000000 R08: ffffcc5c04f7f8f8 R09: ffffcc5c04f7f7d0 [ 7340.416283] R10: ffff891f4c1a7000 R11: ffffcc5c04f7f9c8 R12: ffffcc5c04f7f7d0 [ 7340.417218] R13: 03ffffffffffffff R14: 00fa06fffffffe00 R15: ffff891f47789500 [ 7340.418229] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff891ffdfaa000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 7340.419489] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 7340.420286] CR2: 00007f415bfffd58 CR3: 0000000103f03002 CR4: 0000000000772ef0 [ 7340.421237] PKRU: 55555554 [ 7340.421623] Call Trace: [ 7340.421987] <TASK> [ 7340.422309] ? softleaf_from_pte+0x77/0xa0 [ 7340.422855] swap_pte_batch+0xa7/0x290 [ 7340.423363] zap_nonpresent_ptes.constprop.0.isra.0+0xd1/0x270 [ 7340.424102] zap_pte_range+0x281/0x580 [ 7340.424607] zap_pmd_range.isra.0+0xc9/0x240 [ 7340.425177] unmap_page_range+0x24d/0x420 [ 7340.425714] unmap_vmas+0xa1/0x180 [ 7340.426185] exit_mmap+0xe1/0x3b0 [ 7340.426644] __mmput+0x41/0x150 [ 7340.427098] exit_mm+0xb1/0x110 [ 7340.427539] do_exit+0x1b2/0x460 [ 7340.427992] do_group_exit+0x2d/0xc0 [ 7340.428477] get_signal+0x79d/0x7e0 [ 7340.428957] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x34/0x100 [ 7340.429571] exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8e/0x4c0 [ 7340.430159] do_syscall_64+0x188/0x6b0 [ 7340.430672] ? __do_sys_clone3+0xd9/0x120 [ 7340.431212] ? switch_fpu_return+0x4e/0xd0 [ 7340.431761] ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.isra.0+0xa1/0xc0 [ 7340.432498] ? do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x6b0 [ 7340.433015] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x445/0x690 [ 7340.433582] ? count_memcg_events+0xd6/0x210 [ 7340.434151] ? handle_mm_fault+0x212/0x340 [ 7340.434697] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2b4/0x7b0 [ 7340.435271] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80 [ 7340.435788] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80 [ 7340.436299] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80 [ 7340.436812] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80 [ 7340.437323] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 7340.437973] RIP: 0033:0x7f4161b14169 [ 7340.438468] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f4161b1413f. [ 7340.439242] RSP: 002b:00007ffc6ebfa770 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca [ 7340.440173] RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00000000000005a1 RCX: 00007f4161b14169 [ 7340.441061] RDX: 00000000000005a1 RSI: 0000000000000109 RDI: 00007f415bfff990 [ 7340.441943] RBP: 00007ffc6ebfa7a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000ffffffff [ 7340.442824] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 7340.443707] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f415bfff990 R15: 00007f415bfff6c0 [ 7340.444586] </TASK> [ 7340.444922] Modules linked in: rfkill intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common intel_uncore_frequency_common skx_edac_common nfit libnvdimm kvm_intel vfat fat kvm snd_pcm irqbypass rapl iTCO_wdt snd_timer intel_pmc_bxt iTCO_vendor_support snd ixgbevf virtio_net soundcore i2c_i801 pcspkr libeth_xdp net_failover i2c_smbus lpc_ich failover libeth virtio_balloon joydev 9p fuse loop zram lz4hc_compress lz4_compress 9pnet_virtio 9pnet netfs ghash_clmulni_intel serio_raw qemu_fw_cfg [ 7340.449650] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- The issue can be fixed in all in-tree drivers, but we cannot just trust OOT drivers to not do this. Therefore, make tailroom a signed int and produce a warning when it is negative to prevent such mistakes in the future. Fixes: bf25146a5595 ("bpf: add frags support to the bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() API") Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305111253.2317394-10-larysa.zaremba@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 8821e857759be9db3cde337ad328b71fe5c8a55f ]

Many ethernet drivers report xdp Rx queue frag size as being the same as
DMA write size. However, the only user of this field, namely
bpf_xdp_frags_increase_tail(), clearly expects a truesize.

Such difference leads to unspecific memory corruption issues under certain
circumstances, e.g. in ixgbevf maximum DMA write size is 3 KB, so when
running xskxceiver's XDP_ADJUST_TAIL_GROW_MULTI_BUFF, 6K packet fully uses
all DMA-writable space in 2 buffers. This would be fine, if only
rxq->frag_size was properly set to 4K, but value of 3K results in a
negative tailroom, because there is a non-zero page offset.

We are supposed to return -EINVAL and be done with it in such case, but due
to tailroom being stored as an unsigned int, it is reported to be somewhere
near UINT_MAX, resulting in a tail being grown, even if the requested
offset is too much (it is around 2K in the abovementioned test). This later
leads to all kinds of unspecific calltraces.

[ 7340.337579] xskxceiver[1440]: segfault at 1da718 ip 00007f4161aeac9d sp 00007f41615a6a00 error 6
[ 7340.338040] xskxceiver[1441]: segfault at 7f410000000b ip 00000000004042b5 sp 00007f415bffecf0 error 4
[ 7340.338179]  in libc.so.6[61c9d,7f4161aaf000+160000]
[ 7340.339230]  in xskxceiver[42b5,400000+69000]
[ 7340.340300]  likely on CPU 6 (core 0, socket 6)
[ 7340.340302] Code: ff ff 01 e9 f4 fe ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 4c 39 f0 74 73 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 f0 0f b1 17 0f 85 ba 00 00 00 49 8b 87 88 00 00 00 <4c> 89 70 08 eb cc 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8d bd f0 fe ff ff 89 85 ec fe
[ 7340.340888]  likely on CPU 3 (core 0, socket 3)
[ 7340.345088] Code: 00 00 00 ba 00 00 00 00 be 00 00 00 00 89 c7 e8 31 ca ff ff 89 45 ec 8b 45 ec 85 c0 78 07 b8 00 00 00 00 eb 46 e8 0b c8 ff ff <8b> 00 83 f8 69 74 24 e8 ff c7 ff ff 8b 00 83 f8 0b 74 18 e8 f3 c7
[ 7340.404334] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6d255010bdffc: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 7340.405972] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 1439 Comm: xskxceiver Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1+ #21 PREEMPT(lazy)
[ 7340.408006] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-5.fc42 04/01/2014
[ 7340.409716] RIP: 0010:lookup_swap_cgroup_id+0x44/0x80
[ 7340.410455] Code: 83 f8 1c 73 39 48 ba ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 03 48 8b 04 c5 20 55 fa bd 48 21 d1 48 89 ca 83 e1 01 48 d1 ea c1 e1 04 48 8d 04 90 <8b> 00 48 83 c4 10 d3 e8 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c0 e9 98 b7 dd 00 48 89
[ 7340.412787] RSP: 0018:ffffcc5c04f7f6d0 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 7340.413494] RAX: 0006d255010bdffc RBX: ffff891f477895a8 RCX: 0000000000000010
[ 7340.414431] RDX: 0001c17e3fffffff RSI: 00fa070000000000 RDI: 000382fc7fffffff
[ 7340.415354] RBP: 00fa070000000000 R08: ffffcc5c04f7f8f8 R09: ffffcc5c04f7f7d0
[ 7340.416283] R10: ffff891f4c1a7000 R11: ffffcc5c04f7f9c8 R12: ffffcc5c04f7f7d0
[ 7340.417218] R13: 03ffffffffffffff R14: 00fa06fffffffe00 R15: ffff891f47789500
[ 7340.418229] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff891ffdfaa000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 7340.419489] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 7340.420286] CR2: 00007f415bfffd58 CR3: 0000000103f03002 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
[ 7340.421237] PKRU: 55555554
[ 7340.421623] Call Trace:
[ 7340.421987]  <TASK>
[ 7340.422309]  ? softleaf_from_pte+0x77/0xa0
[ 7340.422855]  swap_pte_batch+0xa7/0x290
[ 7340.423363]  zap_nonpresent_ptes.constprop.0.isra.0+0xd1/0x270
[ 7340.424102]  zap_pte_range+0x281/0x580
[ 7340.424607]  zap_pmd_range.isra.0+0xc9/0x240
[ 7340.425177]  unmap_page_range+0x24d/0x420
[ 7340.425714]  unmap_vmas+0xa1/0x180
[ 7340.426185]  exit_mmap+0xe1/0x3b0
[ 7340.426644]  __mmput+0x41/0x150
[ 7340.427098]  exit_mm+0xb1/0x110
[ 7340.427539]  do_exit+0x1b2/0x460
[ 7340.427992]  do_group_exit+0x2d/0xc0
[ 7340.428477]  get_signal+0x79d/0x7e0
[ 7340.428957]  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x34/0x100
[ 7340.429571]  exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8e/0x4c0
[ 7340.430159]  do_syscall_64+0x188/0x6b0
[ 7340.430672]  ? __do_sys_clone3+0xd9/0x120
[ 7340.431212]  ? switch_fpu_return+0x4e/0xd0
[ 7340.431761]  ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.isra.0+0xa1/0xc0
[ 7340.432498]  ? do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x6b0
[ 7340.433015]  ? __handle_mm_fault+0x445/0x690
[ 7340.433582]  ? count_memcg_events+0xd6/0x210
[ 7340.434151]  ? handle_mm_fault+0x212/0x340
[ 7340.434697]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2b4/0x7b0
[ 7340.435271]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
[ 7340.435788]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
[ 7340.436299]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
[ 7340.436812]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80
[ 7340.437323]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 7340.437973] RIP: 0033:0x7f4161b14169
[ 7340.438468] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f4161b1413f.
[ 7340.439242] RSP: 002b:00007ffc6ebfa770 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
[ 7340.440173] RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00000000000005a1 RCX: 00007f4161b14169
[ 7340.441061] RDX: 00000000000005a1 RSI: 0000000000000109 RDI: 00007f415bfff990
[ 7340.441943] RBP: 00007ffc6ebfa7a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000ffffffff
[ 7340.442824] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 7340.443707] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f415bfff990 R15: 00007f415bfff6c0
[ 7340.444586]  </TASK>
[ 7340.444922] Modules linked in: rfkill intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common intel_uncore_frequency_common skx_edac_common nfit libnvdimm kvm_intel vfat fat kvm snd_pcm irqbypass rapl iTCO_wdt snd_timer intel_pmc_bxt iTCO_vendor_support snd ixgbevf virtio_net soundcore i2c_i801 pcspkr libeth_xdp net_failover i2c_smbus lpc_ich failover libeth virtio_balloon joydev 9p fuse loop zram lz4hc_compress lz4_compress 9pnet_virtio 9pnet netfs ghash_clmulni_intel serio_raw qemu_fw_cfg
[ 7340.449650] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The issue can be fixed in all in-tree drivers, but we cannot just trust OOT
drivers to not do this. Therefore, make tailroom a signed int and produce a
warning when it is negative to prevent such mistakes in the future.

Fixes: bf25146a5595 ("bpf: add frags support to the bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() API")
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305111253.2317394-10-larysa.zaremba@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
xdp: use modulo operation to calculate XDP frag tailroom 2026-03-13T16:20:46+00:00 Larysa Zaremba larysa.zaremba@intel.com 2026-03-05T11:12:42+00:00 c12b63c87250743a1be9f988f113ff2420e70b2a [ Upstream commit 88b6b7f7b216108a09887b074395fa7b751880b1 ] The current formula for calculating XDP tailroom in mbuf packets works only if each frag has its own page (if rxq->frag_size is PAGE_SIZE), this defeats the purpose of the parameter overall and without any indication leads to negative calculated tailroom on at least half of frags, if shared pages are used. There are not many drivers that set rxq->frag_size. Among them: * i40e and enetc always split page uniformly between frags, use shared pages * ice uses page_pool frags via libeth, those are power-of-2 and uniformly distributed across page * idpf has variable frag_size with XDP on, so current API is not applicable * mlx5, mtk and mvneta use PAGE_SIZE or 0 as frag_size for page_pool As for AF_XDP ZC, only ice, i40e and idpf declare frag_size for it. Modulo operation yields good results for aligned chunks, they are all power-of-2, between 2K and PAGE_SIZE. Formula without modulo fails when chunk_size is 2K. Buffers in unaligned mode are not distributed uniformly, so modulo operation would not work. To accommodate unaligned buffers, we could define frag_size as data + tailroom, and hence do not subtract offset when calculating tailroom, but this would necessitate more changes in the drivers. Define rxq->frag_size as an even portion of a page that fully belongs to a single frag. When calculating tailroom, locate the data start within such portion by performing a modulo operation on page offset. Fixes: bf25146a5595 ("bpf: add frags support to the bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() API") Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305111253.2317394-2-larysa.zaremba@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 88b6b7f7b216108a09887b074395fa7b751880b1 ]

The current formula for calculating XDP tailroom in mbuf packets works only
if each frag has its own page (if rxq->frag_size is PAGE_SIZE), this
defeats the purpose of the parameter overall and without any indication
leads to negative calculated tailroom on at least half of frags, if shared
pages are used.

There are not many drivers that set rxq->frag_size. Among them:
* i40e and enetc always split page uniformly between frags, use shared
  pages
* ice uses page_pool frags via libeth, those are power-of-2 and uniformly
  distributed across page
* idpf has variable frag_size with XDP on, so current API is not applicable
* mlx5, mtk and mvneta use PAGE_SIZE or 0 as frag_size for page_pool

As for AF_XDP ZC, only ice, i40e and idpf declare frag_size for it. Modulo
operation yields good results for aligned chunks, they are all power-of-2,
between 2K and PAGE_SIZE. Formula without modulo fails when chunk_size is
2K. Buffers in unaligned mode are not distributed uniformly, so modulo
operation would not work.

To accommodate unaligned buffers, we could define frag_size as
data + tailroom, and hence do not subtract offset when calculating
tailroom, but this would necessitate more changes in the drivers.

Define rxq->frag_size as an even portion of a page that fully belongs to a
single frag. When calculating tailroom, locate the data start within such
portion by performing a modulo operation on page offset.

Fixes: bf25146a5595 ("bpf: add frags support to the bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() API")
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305111253.2317394-2-larysa.zaremba@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames 2026-03-04T12:21:35+00:00 Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org 2026-02-23T23:51:00+00:00 ea5d7787635e26ec1194ec7eec0e8e5ae3bd10a5 [ Upstream commit 7aa767d0d3d04e50ae94e770db7db8197f666970 ] udpgro_frglist.sh and udpgro_bench.sh are the flakiest tests currently in NIPA. They fail in the same exact way, TCP GRO test stalls occasionally and the test gets killed after 10min. These tests use veth to simulate GRO. They attach a trivial ("return XDP_PASS;") XDP program to the veth to force TSO off and NAPI on. Digging into the failure mode we can see that the connection is completely stuck after a burst of drops. The sender's snd_nxt is at sequence number N [1], but the receiver claims to have received (rcv_nxt) up to N + 3 * MSS [2]. Last piece of the puzzle is that senders rtx queue is not empty (let's say the block in the rtx queue is at sequence number N - 4 * MSS [3]). In this state, sender sends a retransmission from the rtx queue with a single segment, and sequence numbers N-4*MSS:N-3*MSS [3]. Receiver sees it and responds with an ACK all the way up to N + 3 * MSS [2]. But sender will reject this ack as TCP_ACK_UNSENT_DATA because it has no recollection of ever sending data that far out [1]. And we are stuck. The root cause is the mess of the xmit return codes. veth returns an error when it can't xmit a frame. We end up with a loss event like this: ------------------------------------------------- | GSO super frame 1 | GSO super frame 2 | |-----------------------------------------------| | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | seg | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ------------------------------------------------- x ok ok <ok>| ok ok ok <x> \\ snd_nxt "x" means packet lost by veth, and "ok" means it went thru. Since veth has TSO disabled in this test it sees individual segments. Segment 1 is on the retransmit queue and will be resent. So why did the sender not advance snd_nxt even tho it clearly did send up to seg 8? tcp_write_xmit() interprets the return code from the core to mean that data has not been sent at all. Since TCP deals with GSO super frames, not individual segment the crux of the problem is that loss of a single segment can be interpreted as loss of all. TCP only sees the last return code for the last segment of the GSO frame (in <> brackets in the diagram above). Of course for the problem to occur we need a setup or a device without a Qdisc. Otherwise Qdisc layer disconnects the protocol layer from the device errors completely. We have multiple ways to fix this. 1) make veth not return an error when it lost a packet. While this is what I think we did in the past, the issue keeps reappearing and it's annoying to debug. The game of whack a mole is not great. 2) fix the damn return codes We only talk about NETDEV_TX_OK and NETDEV_TX_BUSY in the documentation, so maybe we should make the return code from ndo_start_xmit() a boolean. I like that the most, but perhaps some ancient, not-really-networking protocol would suffer. 3) make TCP ignore the errors It is not entirely clear to me what benefit TCP gets from interpreting the result of ip_queue_xmit()? Specifically once the connection is established and we're pushing data - packet loss is just packet loss? 4) this fix Ignore the rc in the Qdisc-less+GSO case, since it's unreliable. We already always return OK in the TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS case. In the Qdisc-less case let's be a bit more conservative and only mask the GSO errors. This path is taken by non-IP-"networks" like CAN, MCTP etc, so we could regress some ancient thing. This is the simplest, but also maybe the hackiest fix? Similar fix has been proposed by Eric in the past but never committed because original reporter was working with an OOT driver and wasn't providing feedback (see Link). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/CANn89iJcLepEin7EtBETrZ36bjoD9LrR=k4cfwWh046GB+4f9A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 1f59533f9ca5 ("qdisc: validate frames going through the direct_xmit path") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223235100.108939-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 7aa767d0d3d04e50ae94e770db7db8197f666970 ]

udpgro_frglist.sh and udpgro_bench.sh are the flakiest tests
currently in NIPA. They fail in the same exact way, TCP GRO
test stalls occasionally and the test gets killed after 10min.

These tests use veth to simulate GRO. They attach a trivial
("return XDP_PASS;") XDP program to the veth to force TSO off
and NAPI on.

Digging into the failure mode we can see that the conne