linux.git/net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c, branch v5.10.258

ipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment()

2025-08-28T14:22:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit d45cf1e7d7180256e17c9ce88e32e8061a7887fe ]

syzbot was able to craft a packet with very long IPv6 extension headers
leading to an overflow of skb->transport_header.

This 16bit field has a limited range.

Add skb_reset_transport_header_careful() helper and use it
from ipv6_gso_segment()

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5871 Comm: syz-executor211 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-syzkaller-g7abc678e3084 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
 RIP: 0010:skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline]
 RIP: 0010:ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151
Call Trace:
 
  skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53
  nsh_gso_segment+0x54a/0xe10 net/nsh/nsh.c:110
  skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53
  __skb_gso_segment+0x342/0x510 net/core/gso.c:124
  skb_gso_segment include/net/gso.h:83 [inline]
  validate_xmit_skb+0x857/0x11b0 net/core/dev.c:3950
  validate_xmit_skb_list+0x84/0x120 net/core/dev.c:4000
  sch_direct_xmit+0xd3/0x4b0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:329
  __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4102 [inline]
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x17b6/0x3a70 net/core/dev.c:4679

Fixes: d1da932ed4ec ("ipv6: Separate ipv6 offload support")
Reported-by: syzbot+af43e647fd835acc02df@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/688a1a05.050a0220.5d226.0008.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reviewed-by: Dawid Osuchowski 
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250730131738.3385939-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

gro: remove rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock from gro_complete handlers

2024-09-12T09:06:47+00:00

[ Upstream commit 627b94f75b82d13d1530b59155a545fd99d807db ]

All gro_complete() handlers are called from napi_gro_complete()
while rcu_read_lock() has been called.

There is no point stacking more rcu_read_lock()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Stable-dep-of: 7e4196935069 ("fou: Fix null-ptr-deref in GRO.")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

gro: remove rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock from gro_receive handlers

2024-09-12T09:06:47+00:00

[ Upstream commit fc1ca3348a74a1afaa7ffebc2b2f2cc149e11278 ]

All gro_receive() handlers are called from dev_gro_receive()
while rcu_read_lock() has been called.

There is no point stacking more rcu_read_lock()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Stable-dep-of: 7e4196935069 ("fou: Fix null-ptr-deref in GRO.")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

gso: do not skip outer ip header in case of ipip and net_failover

2022-03-02T10:42:49+00:00

commit cc20cced0598d9a5ff91ae4ab147b3b5e99ee819 upstream.

We encounter a tcp drop issue in our cloud environment. Packet GROed in
host forwards to a VM virtio_net nic with net_failover enabled. VM acts
as a IPVS LB with ipip encapsulation. The full path like:
host gro -> vm virtio_net rx -> net_failover rx -> ipvs fullnat
 -> ipip encap -> net_failover tx -> virtio_net tx

When net_failover transmits a ipip pkt (gso_type = 0x0103, which means
SKB_GSO_TCPV4, SKB_GSO_DODGY and SKB_GSO_IPXIP4), there is no gso
did because it supports TSO and GSO_IPXIP4. But network_header points to
inner ip header.

Call Trace:
 tcp4_gso_segment        ------> return NULL
 inet_gso_segment        ------> inner iph, network_header points to
 ipip_gso_segment
 inet_gso_segment        ------> outer iph
 skb_mac_gso_segment

Afterwards virtio_net transmits the pkt, only inner ip header is modified.
And the outer one just keeps unchanged. The pkt will be dropped in remote
host.

Call Trace:
 inet_gso_segment        ------> inner iph, outer iph is skipped
 skb_mac_gso_segment
 __skb_gso_segment
 validate_xmit_skb
 validate_xmit_skb_list
 sch_direct_xmit
 __qdisc_run
 __dev_queue_xmit        ------> virtio_net
 dev_hard_start_xmit
 __dev_queue_xmit        ------> net_failover
 ip_finish_output2
 ip_output
 iptunnel_xmit
 ip_tunnel_xmit
 ipip_tunnel_xmit        ------> ipip
 dev_hard_start_xmit
 __dev_queue_xmit
 ip_finish_output2
 ip_output
 ip_forward
 ip_rcv
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core
 netif_receive_skb_internal
 napi_gro_receive
 receive_buf
 virtnet_poll
 net_rx_action

The root cause of this issue is specific with the rare combination of
SKB_GSO_DODGY and a tunnel device that adds an SKB_GSO_ tunnel option.
SKB_GSO_DODGY is set from external virtio_net. We need to reset network
header when callbacks.gso_segment() returns NULL.

This patch also includes ipv6_gso_segment(), considering SIT, etc.

Fixes: cb32f511a70b ("ipip: add GSO/TSO support")
Signed-off-by: Tao Liu 
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

udp: move gro declarations to net/udp.h

2020-06-24T03:10:15+00:00

This removes following warnings :
  CC      net/ipv4/udp_offload.o
net/ipv4/udp_offload.c:504:17: warning: no previous prototype for 'udp4_gro_receive' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
  504 | struct sk_buff *udp4_gro_receive(struct list_head *head, struct sk_buff *skb)
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
net/ipv4/udp_offload.c:584:29: warning: no previous prototype for 'udp4_gro_complete' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
  584 | INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int udp4_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhoff)
      |                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  CHECK   net/ipv6/udp_offload.c
net/ipv6/udp_offload.c:115:16: warning: symbol 'udp6_gro_receive' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/udp_offload.c:148:29: warning: symbol 'udp6_gro_complete' was not declared. Should it be static?
  CC      net/ipv6/udp_offload.o
net/ipv6/udp_offload.c:115:17: warning: no previous prototype for 'udp6_gro_receive' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
  115 | struct sk_buff *udp6_gro_receive(struct list_head *head, struct sk_buff *skb)
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
net/ipv6/udp_offload.c:148:29: warning: no previous prototype for 'udp6_gro_complete' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
  148 | INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int udp6_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhoff)
      |                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: move tcp gro declarations to net/tcp.h

2020-06-24T03:10:15+00:00

This patch removes following (C=1 W=1) warnings for CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y :

net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c:306:16: warning: symbol 'tcp4_gro_receive' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c:306:17: warning: no previous prototype for 'tcp4_gro_receive' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c:319:29: warning: symbol 'tcp4_gro_complete' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c:319:29: warning: no previous prototype for 'tcp4_gro_complete' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
  CHECK   net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c:16:16: warning: symbol 'tcp6_gro_receive' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c:29:29: warning: symbol 'tcp6_gro_complete' was not declared. Should it be static?
  CC      net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.o
net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c:16:17: warning: no previous prototype for 'tcp6_gro_receive' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
   16 | struct sk_buff *tcp6_gro_receive(struct list_head *head, struct sk_buff *skb)
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c:29:29: warning: no previous prototype for 'tcp6_gro_complete' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
   29 | INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int tcp6_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb, int thoff)
      |                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

gso: validate gso_type on ipip style tunnels

2019-02-20T19:24:27+00:00

Commit 121d57af308d ("gso: validate gso_type in GSO handlers") added
gso_type validation to existing gso_segment callback functions, to
filter out illegal and potentially dangerous SKB_GSO_DODGY packets.

Convert tunnels that now call inet_gso_segment and ipv6_gso_segment
directly to have their own callbacks and extend validation to these.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use indirect call wrappers at GRO transport layer

2018-12-15T21:23:02+00:00

This avoids an indirect call in the receive path for TCP and UDP
packets. TCP takes precedence on UDP, so that we have a single
additional conditional in the common case.

When IPV6 is build as module, all gro symbols except UDPv6 are
builtin, while the latter belong to the ipv6 module, so we
need some special care.

v1 -> v2:
 - adapted to INDIRECT_CALL_ changes
v2 -> v3:
 - fix build issue with CONFIG_IPV6=m

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use indirect call wrappers at GRO network layer

2018-12-15T21:23:02+00:00

This avoids an indirect calls for L3 GRO receive path, both
for ipv4 and ipv6, if the latter is not compiled as a module.

Note that when IPv6 is compiled as builtin, it will be checked first,
so we have a single additional compare for the more common path.

v1 -> v2:
 - adapted to INDIRECT_CALL_ changes

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller