kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v6.12.80

bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()

2026-03-25T10:08:53+00:00

[ Upstream commit b7405dcf7385445e10821777143f18c3ce20fa04 ] bond_header_parse() can loop if a stack of two bonding devices is setup, because skb->dev always points to the hierarchy top. Add new "const struct net_device *dev" parameter to (struct header_ops)->parse() method to make sure the recursion is bounded, and that the final leaf parse method is called. Fixes: 950803f72547 ("bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen Tested-by: Jiayuan Chen Cc: Jay Vosburgh Cc: Andrew Lunn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260315104152.1436867-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions

2026-03-25T10:08:28+00:00

[ 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: __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 Fixes: 745e20f1b626 ("net: add a recursion limit in xmit path") Reported-by: Xiang Mei Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306160133.3852900-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xdp: register system page pool as an XDP memory model

2026-03-25T10:08:28+00:00

[ 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 Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241203173733.3181246-7-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: add a common function to compute features for upper devices

2026-03-25T10:08:28+00:00

[ 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 Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017034155.61990-2-liuhangbin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 950803f72547 ("bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netdev: preserve NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL across TSO updates

2026-01-17T15:31:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 02d1e1a3f9239cdb3ecf2c6d365fb959d1bf39df ] Directly increment the TSO features incurs a side effect: it will also directly clear the flags in NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL on the master device, which can cause issues such as the inability to enable the nocache copy feature on the bonding driver. The fix is to include NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL in the update mask, thereby preventing it from being cleared. Fixes: b0ce3508b25e ("bonding: allow TSO being set on bonding master") Signed-off-by: Di Zhu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251224012224.56185-1-zhud@hygon.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: Add non-RCU dev_getbyhwaddr() helper

2025-02-27T12:30:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4b5a28b38c4a0106c64416a1b2042405166b26ce ] Add dedicated helper for finding devices by hardware address when holding rtnl_lock, similar to existing dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu(). This prevents PROVE_LOCKING warnings when rtnl_lock is held but RCU read lock is not. Extract common address comparison logic into dev_addr_cmp(). The context about this change could be found in the following discussion: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250206-scarlet-ermine-of-improvement-1fcac5@leitao/ Cc: kuniyu@amazon.com Cc: ushankar@purestorage.com Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250218-arm_fix_selftest-v5-1-d3d6892db9e1@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 4eae0ee0f1e6 ("arp: switch to dev_getbyhwaddr() in arp_req_set_public()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: add dev_net_rcu() helper

2025-02-21T13:01:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 482ad2a4ace2740ca0ff1cbc8f3c7f862f3ab507 ] dev->nd_net can change, readers should either use rcu_read_lock() or RTNL. We currently use a generic helper, dev_net() with no debugging support. We probably have many hidden bugs. Add dev_net_rcu() helper for callers using rcu_read_lock() protection. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250205155120.1676781-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 71b8471c93fa ("ipv4: use RCU protection in ipv4_default_advmss()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ax25: rcu protect dev->ax25_ptr

2025-02-08T08:57:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit 95fc45d1dea8e1253f8ec58abc5befb71553d666 ] syzbot found a lockdep issue [1]. We should remove ax25 RTNL dependency in ax25_setsockopt() This should also fix a variety of possible UAF in ax25. [1] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00762-g9268abe611b0 #0 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ syz.5.1818/12806 is trying to acquire lock: ffffffff8fcb3988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: ax25_setsockopt+0xa55/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:680 but task is already holding lock: ffff8880617ac258 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1618 [inline] ffff8880617ac258 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: ax25_setsockopt+0x209/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:574 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}: lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849 lock_sock_nested+0x48/0x100 net/core/sock.c:3642 lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1618 [inline] ax25_kill_by_device net/ax25/af_ax25.c:101 [inline] ax25_device_event+0x24d/0x580 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:146 notifier_call_chain+0x1a5/0x3f0 kernel/notifier.c:85 __dev_notify_flags+0x207/0x400 dev_change_flags+0xf0/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:9026 dev_ifsioc+0x7c8/0xe70 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:563 dev_ioctl+0x719/0x1340 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:820 sock_do_ioctl+0x240/0x460 net/socket.c:1234 sock_ioctl+0x626/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1339 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f -> #0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}: check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3161 [inline] check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3280 [inline] validate_chain+0x18ef/0x5920 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3904 __lock_acquire+0x1397/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5226 lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:585 [inline] __mutex_lock+0x1ac/0xee0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:735 ax25_setsockopt+0xa55/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:680 do_sock_setsockopt+0x3af/0x720 net/socket.c:2324 __sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2349 [inline] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2355 [inline] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2352 [inline] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x1ee/0x280 net/socket.c:2352 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(sk_lock-AF_AX25); lock(rtnl_mutex); lock(sk_lock-AF_AX25); lock(rtnl_mutex); *** DEADLOCK *** 1 lock held by syz.5.1818/12806: #0: ffff8880617ac258 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1618 [inline] #0: ffff8880617ac258 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: ax25_setsockopt+0x209/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:574 stack backtrace: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12806 Comm: syz.5.1818 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00762-g9268abe611b0 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_circular_bug+0x13a/0x1b0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2074 check_noncircular+0x36a/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2206 check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3161 [inline] check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3280 [inline] validate_chain+0x18ef/0x5920 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3904 __lock_acquire+0x1397/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5226 lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:585 [inline] __mutex_lock+0x1ac/0xee0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:735 ax25_setsockopt+0xa55/0xe90 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:680 do_sock_setsockopt+0x3af/0x720 net/socket.c:2324 __sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2349 [inline] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2355 [inline] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2352 [inline] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x1ee/0x280 net/socket.c:2352 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f7b62385d29 Fixes: c433570458e4 ("ax25: fix a use-after-free in ax25_fillin_cb()") Reported-by: syzbot Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250103210514.87290-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: fix races in netdev_tx_sent_queue()/dev_watchdog()

2024-10-21T10:54:25+00:00

Some workloads hit the infamous dev_watchdog() message: "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (xxxx): transmit queue XX timed out" It seems possible to hit this even for perfectly normal BQL enabled drivers: 1) Assume a TX queue was idle for more than dev->watchdog_timeo (5 seconds unless changed by the driver) 2) Assume a big packet is sent, exceeding current BQL limit. 3) Driver ndo_start_xmit() puts the packet in TX ring, and netdev_tx_sent_queue() is called. 4) QUEUE_STATE_STACK_XOFF could be set from netdev_tx_sent_queue() before txq->trans_start has been written. 5) txq->trans_start is written later, from netdev_start_xmit() if (rc == NETDEV_TX_OK) txq_trans_update(txq) dev_watchdog() running on another cpu could read the old txq->trans_start, and then see QUEUE_STATE_STACK_XOFF, because 5) did not happen yet. To solve the issue, write txq->trans_start right before one XOFF bit is set : - _QUEUE_STATE_DRV_XOFF from netif_tx_stop_queue() - __QUEUE_STATE_STACK_XOFF from netdev_tx_sent_queue() From dev_watchdog(), we have to read txq->state before txq->trans_start. Add memory barriers to enforce correct ordering. In the future, we could avoid writing over txq->trans_start for normal operations, and rename this field to txq->xoff_start_time. Fixes: bec251bc8b6a ("net: no longer stop all TX queues in dev_watchdog()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241015194118.3951657-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: Fix gso_features_check to check for both dev->gso_{ipv4_,}max_size

2024-10-01T08:48:52+00:00

Commit 24ab059d2ebd ("net: check dev->gso_max_size in gso_features_check()") added a dev->gso_max_size test to gso_features_check() in order to fall back to GSO when needed. This was added as it was noticed that some drivers could misbehave if TSO packets get too big. However, the check doesn't respect dev->gso_ipv4_max_size limit. For instance, a device could be configured with BIG TCP for IPv4, but not IPv6. Therefore, add a netif_get_gso_max_size() equivalent to netif_get_gro_max_size() and use the helper to respect both limits before falling back to GSO engine. Fixes: 24ab059d2ebd ("net: check dev->gso_max_size in gso_features_check()") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240923212242.15669-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni