kernel/linux.git/include/net/ip6_tunnel.h, branch v6.19.11

net: prevent NULL deref in ip[6]tunnel_xmit()

2026-03-19T15:14:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit c38b8f5f791ecce13ab77e2257f8fd2444ba80f6 ] Blamed commit missed that both functions can be called with dev == NULL. Also add unlikely() hints for these conditions that only fuzzers can hit. Fixes: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet CC: Weiming Shi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312043908.2790803-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions

2026-03-19T15:14:54+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

ipv6: adopt skb_dst_dev() and skb_dst_dev_net[_rcu]() helpers

2025-07-02T21:32:30+00:00

Use the new helpers as a step to deal with potential dst->dev races. v2: fix typo in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() (kernel test robot ) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630121934.3399505-10-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: ipv6: Add a flags argument to ip6tunnel_xmit(), udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb()

2025-06-18T01:18:45+00:00

ip6tunnel_xmit() erases the contents of the SKB control block. In order to be able to set particular IP6CB flags on the SKB, add a corresponding parameter, and propagate it to udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() as well. In one of the following patches, VXLAN driver will use this facility to mark packets as subject to IPv6 multicast routing. Signed-off-by: Petr Machata Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/acb4f9f3e40c3a931236c3af08a720b017fbfbfb.1750113335.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ip_tunnel: convert __be16 tunnel flags to bitmaps

2024-04-01T09:49:28+00:00

Historically, tunnel flags like TUNNEL_CSUM or TUNNEL_ERSPAN_OPT have been defined as __be16. Now all of those 16 bits are occupied and there's no more free space for new flags. It can't be simply switched to a bigger container with no adjustments to the values, since it's an explicit Endian storage, and on LE systems (__be16)0x0001 equals to (__be64)0x0001000000000000. We could probably define new 64-bit flags depending on the Endianness, i.e. (__be64)0x0001 on BE and (__be64)0x00010000... on LE, but that would introduce an Endianness dependency and spawn a ton of Sparse warnings. To mitigate them, all of those places which were adjusted with this change would be touched anyway, so why not define stuff properly if there's no choice. Define IP_TUNNEL_*_BIT counterparts as a bit number instead of the value already coded and a fistful of <16 <-> bitmap> converters and helpers. The two flags which have a different bit position are SIT_ISATAP_BIT and VTI_ISVTI_BIT, as they were defined not as __cpu_to_be16(), but as (__force __be16), i.e. had different positions on LE and BE. Now they both have strongly defined places. Change all __be16 fields which were used to store those flags, to IP_TUNNEL_DECLARE_FLAGS() -> DECLARE_BITMAP(__IP_TUNNEL_FLAG_NUM) -> unsigned long[1] for now, and replace all TUNNEL_* occurrences to their bitmap counterparts. Use the converters in the places which talk to the userspace, hardware (NFP) or other hosts (GRE header). The rest must explicitly use the new flags only. This must be done at once, otherwise there will be too many conversions throughout the code in the intermediate commits. Finally, disable the old __be16 flags for use in the kernel code (except for the two 'irregular' flags mentioned above), to prevent any accidental (mis)use of them. For the userspace, nothing is changed, only additions were made. Most noticeable bloat-o-meter difference (.text): vmlinux: 307/-1 (306) gre.ko: 62/0 (62) ip_gre.ko: 941/-217 (724) [*] ip_tunnel.ko: 390/-900 (-510) [**] ip_vti.ko: 138/0 (138) ip6_gre.ko: 534/-18 (516) [*] ip6_tunnel.ko: 118/-10 (108) [*] gre_flags_to_tnl_flags() grew, but still is inlined [**] ip_tunnel_find() got uninlined, hence such decrease The average code size increase in non-extreme case is 100-200 bytes per module, mostly due to sizeof(long) > sizeof(__be16), as %__IP_TUNNEL_FLAG_NUM is less than %BITS_PER_LONG and the compilers are able to expand the majority of bitmap_*() calls here into direct operations on scalars. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ip_gre, ip6_gre: Fix race condition on o_seqno in collect_md mode

2022-04-25T10:40:45+00:00

As pointed out by Jakub Kicinski, currently using TUNNEL_SEQ in collect_md mode is racy for [IP6]GRE[TAP] devices. Consider the following sequence of events: 1. An [IP6]GRE[TAP] device is created in collect_md mode using "ip link add ... external". "ip" ignores "[o]seq" if "external" is specified, so TUNNEL_SEQ is off, and the device is marked as NETIF_F_LLTX (i.e. it uses lockless TX); 2. Someone sets TUNNEL_SEQ on outgoing skb's, using e.g. bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key() in an eBPF program attached to this device; 3. gre_fb_xmit() or __gre6_xmit() processes these skb's: gre_build_header(skb, tun_hlen, flags, protocol, tunnel_id_to_key32(tun_info->key.tun_id), (flags & TUNNEL_SEQ) ? htonl(tunnel->o_seqno++) : 0); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Since we are not using the TX lock (&txq->_xmit_lock), multiple CPUs may try to do this tunnel->o_seqno++ in parallel, which is racy. Fix it by making o_seqno atomic_t. As mentioned by Eric Dumazet in commit b790e01aee74 ("ip_gre: lockless xmit"), making o_seqno atomic_t increases "chance for packets being out of order at receiver" when NETIF_F_LLTX is on. Maybe a better fix would be: 1. Do not ignore "oseq" in external mode. Users MUST specify "oseq" if they want the kernel to allow sequencing of outgoing packets; 2. Reject all outgoing TUNNEL_SEQ packets if the device was not created with "oseq". Unfortunately, that would break userspace. We could now make [IP6]GRE[TAP] devices always NETIF_F_LLTX, but let us do it in separate patches to keep this fix minimal. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Fixes: 77a5196a804e ("gre: add sequence number for collect md mode.") Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye Acked-by: William Tu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: add net device refcount tracker to struct ip6_tnl

2021-12-07T00:05:11+00:00

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ip6_tunnel: allow not to count pkts on tstats by passing dev as NULL

2019-06-19T00:48:45+00:00

A similar fix to Patch "ip_tunnel: allow not to count pkts on tstats by setting skb's dev to NULL" is also needed by ip6_tunnel. Signed-off-by: Xin Long Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

udp: Support for error handlers of tunnels with arbitrary destination port

2018-11-09T01:13:08+00:00

ICMP error handling is currently not possible for UDP tunnels not employing a receiving socket with local destination port matching the remote one, because we have no way to look them up. Add an err_handler tunnel encapsulation operation that can be exported by tunnels in order to pass the error to the protocol implementing the encapsulation. We can't easily use a lookup function as we did for VXLAN and GENEVE, as protocol error handlers, which would be in turn called by implementations of this new operation, handle the errors themselves, together with the tunnel lookup. Without a socket, we can't be sure which encapsulation error handler is the appropriate one: encapsulation handlers (the ones for FoU and GUE introduced in the next patch, e.g.) will need to check the new error codes returned by protocol handlers to figure out if errors match the given encapsulation, and, in turn, report this error back, so that we can try all of them in __udp{4,6}_lib_err_encap_no_sk() until we have a match. v2: - Name all arguments in err_handler prototypes (David Miller) Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ip6_gre: add erspan v2 support

2017-12-15T17:34:00+00:00

Similar to support for ipv4 erspan, this patch adds erspan v2 to ip6erspan tunnel. Signed-off-by: William Tu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller