kernel/linux.git/net/core/gro.c, branch v6.6.155

net: gro: properly validate BIG TCP aggregation criteria

2026-08-27T12:29:48+00:00

When GRO attempts to aggregate packets beyond GRO_LEGACY_MAX_SIZE (64KB), BIG TCP should only be permitted for plain IPv4 TCP and plain IPv6 TCP (with sufficient MAC header room to insert the temporary HBH jumbo header). However, commit b1a78b9b9886 ("net: add support for ipv4 big tcp") loosened the check in skb_gro_receive(), leading to several issues: 1. skb_gro_receive() checked skb_headroom(p) instead of the actual space before the MAC header (p->mac_header). Because skb_headroom(p) includes mac_len, crafted frames (e.g. injected via AF_PACKET) can pass the check with p->mac_header < 8 bytes. When ipv6_gro_complete() inserts the temporary HBH jumbo header, the memmove() starts before skb->head, causing an out-of-bounds write and wrapping skb->mac_header. 2. It allowed non-IP protocols such as software VLAN (ETH_P_8021Q / ETH_P_8021AD) to aggregate beyond 64KB because p->protocol != ETH_P_IPV6 was true. 3. It checked p->encapsulation instead of NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->encap_mark, allowing encapsulated flows (e.g. SIT / IPv6-in-IPv4) to aggregate beyond 64KB. Fix skb_gro_receive() to strictly enforce: - NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->proto == IPPROTO_TCP - Not encapsulated (!NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->encap_mark && !p->encapsulation) - Protocol must be either ETH_P_IP or ETH_P_IPV6 - If ETH_P_IPV6, p->mac_header must be at least sizeof(struct hop_jumbo_hdr) Returning -E2BIG from skb_gro_receive() ensures that packets which cannot become BIG TCP are cleanly flushed at <= 64KB and delivered intact without dropping. This issue does not exist in mainline (7.0+) because the subsystem was rewritten in commit 81be30c1f5f2 ("net/ipv6: Drop HBH for BIG TCP on RX side"), making this fix relevant only for older stable branches like 6.18.y. Fixes: 0fe79f28bfaf ("net: allow gro_max_size to exceed 65536") Fixes: b1a78b9b9886 ("net: add support for ipv4 big tcp") Reported-by: Sam Dlinn Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: gro: fix double aggregation of flush-marked skbs

2026-08-23T12:20:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit e751256486d0ded20f5a9f9863467f1dce65142f ] Commit 0ab03f353d36 ("net-gro: Fix GRO flush when receiving a GSO packet.") added a flush check to skb_gro_receive(), but skb_gro_receive_list() lacks the same validation. As a result, packets marked with NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush may still be re-aggregated. This allows already-GRO'd packets with existing frag_list to be re-aggregated into a new GRO session, corrupting the frag_list chain structure. When skb_segment() attempts to unpack these malformed packets, it encounters invalid state and triggers a kernel panic. Scenario (Tethering/Device forwarding): 1. Driver: Generated aggregated packet P1 via LRO with frag_list 2. Dev A: Receives aggregated fraglist packet and flush flag set 3. Dev A: Re-enters GRO, skb_gro_receive_list() is called 4. Missing flush check allows re-aggregation despite flush flag 5. Frag_list chain becomes corrupted (loops or dangling refs) 6. Dev B: TX path calls skb_segment(), crashes on corrupted frag_list Root cause in skb_segment(): The check at line ~4891: if (hsize <= 0 && i >= nfrags && skb_headlen(list_skb) && (skb_headlen(list_skb) == len || sg)) { When frag_list is corrupted by double aggregation, when list_skb is a NULL pointer from skb->next, skb_headlen(list_skb) dereference NULL/corrupted pointers occurs. Call Trace: skb_headlen(NULL skb) skb_segment tcp_gso_segment tcp4_gso_segment inet_gso_segment skb_mac_gso_segment __skb_gso_segment skb_gso_segment validate_xmit_skb validate_xmit_skb_list sch_direct_xmit qdisc_restart __qdisc_run qdisc_run net_tx_action Fix: Add NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush validation to the early-return check in skb_gro_receive_list(), matching the defensive programming pattern of skb_gro_receive(). Fixes: 3a1296a38d0c ("net: Support GRO/GSO fraglist chaining.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Shiming Cheng Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709014704.3625-1-shiming.cheng@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: move skb_gro_receive_list from udp to core

2026-08-23T12:20:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8928756d53d5b99dcd18073dc7738b8ebdbe7d96 ] This helper function will be used for TCP fraglist GRO support Acked-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Reviewed-by: David Ahern Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: e751256486d0 ("net: gro: fix double aggregation of flush-marked skbs") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: gro: don't merge zcopy skbs

2026-06-01T15:43:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4db79a322db8c97f7b73b8a347395ef4d685eb40 ] skb_gro_receive() can currently copy frags between the source and GRO skb, without checking the zerocopy status, and in particular the SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS flag. When SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS is set, the skb doesn't hold a reference on the pages in shinfo->frags. Appending those frags to another skb's frags without fixing up the page refcount can lead to UAF. When either the last skb in the GRO chain (the one we would append frags to) or the source skb is zerocopy, don't merge the skbs. Fixes: 753f1ca4e1e5 ("net: introduce managed frags infrastructure") Reported-by: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c3b7f906bbfcbdfd7b4fa9d6c18a438870df85be.1779307748.git.sd@queasysnail.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers

2026-05-23T11:03:36+00:00

commit 48f6a5356a33dd78e7144ae1faef95ffc990aae0 upstream. Two frag-transfer helpers (__pskb_copy_fclone() and skb_shift()) fail to propagate the SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG bit in skb_shinfo()->flags when moving frags from source to destination. __pskb_copy_fclone() defers the rest of the shinfo metadata to skb_copy_header() after copying frag descriptors, but that helper only carries over gso_{size,segs, type} and never touches skb_shinfo()->flags; skb_shift() moves frag descriptors directly and leaves flags untouched. As a result, the destination skb keeps a reference to the same externally-owned or page-cache-backed pages while reporting skb_has_shared_frag() as false. The mismatch is harmful in any in-place writer that uses skb_has_shared_frag() to decide whether shared pages must be detoured through skb_cow_data(). ESP input is one such writer (esp4.c, esp6.c), and a single nft 'dup to ' rule -- or any other nf_dup_ipv4() / xt_TEE caller -- is enough to land a pskb_copy()'d skb in esp_input() with the marker stripped, letting an unprivileged user write into the page cache of a root-owned read-only file via authencesn-ESN stray writes. Set SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG on the destination whenever frag descriptors were actually moved from the source. skb_copy() and skb_copy_expand() share skb_copy_header() too but linearize all paged data into freshly allocated head storage and emerge with nr_frags == 0, so skb_has_shared_frag() returns false on its own; they need no change. The same omission exists in skb_gro_receive() and skb_gro_receive_list(). The former moves the incoming skb's frag descriptors into the accumulator's last sub-skb via two paths (a direct frag-move loop and the head_frag + memcpy path); the latter chains the incoming skb whole onto p's frag_list. Downstream skb_segment() reads only skb_shinfo(p)->flags, and skb_segment_list() reuses each sub-skb's shinfo as the nskb -- both p and lp must carry the marker. The same omission also exists in tcp_clone_payload(), which builds an MTU probe skb by moving frag descriptors from skbs on sk_write_queue into a freshly allocated nskb. The helper falls into the same family and warrants the same fix for consistency; no TCP TX-side in-place writer is currently known to reach a user page through this gap, but a future consumer depending on the marker would regress silently. The same omission exists in skb_segment(): the per-iteration flag merge takes only head_skb's flag, and the inner switch that rebinds frag_skb to list_skb on head_skb-frags exhaustion does not fold the new frag_skb's flag into nskb. Fold frag_skb's flag at both sites so segments drawing frags from frag_list members carry the marker. Fixes: cef401de7be8 ("net: fix possible wrong checksum generation") Fixes: f4c50a4034e6 ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags") Suggested-by: Sabrina Dubroca Suggested-by: Sultan Alsawaf Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings Suggested-by: Lin Ma Suggested-by: Jingguo Tan Suggested-by: Aaron Esau Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim Tested-by: Rajat Gupta Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ageeJfJHwgzmKXbh@v4bel Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni [bwh: Backported to 6.6: skb_gro_receive_list() is in net/ipv4/udp_offload.c here] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

gro: change the BUG_ON() in gro_pull_from_frag0()

2026-03-04T12:20:47+00:00

[ Upstream commit cbe41362be2c27e0237a94a404ae413cec9c2ad9 ] Replace the BUG_ON() which never fired with a DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE() $ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.1 vmlinux.2 add/remove: 2/2 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 370/-254 (116) Function old new delta gro_try_pull_from_frag0 - 196 +196 napi_gro_frags 771 929 +158 __pfx_gro_try_pull_from_frag0 - 16 +16 __pfx_gro_pull_from_frag0 16 - -16 dev_gro_receive 1514 1464 -50 gro_pull_from_frag0 188 - -188 Total: Before=22565899, After=22566015, chg +0.00% Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122045720.1221017-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: gro: fix outer network offset

2026-02-11T12:39:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5c2c3c38be396257a6a2e55bd601a12bb9781507 ] The udp GRO complete stage assumes that all the packets inserted the RX have the `encapsulation` flag zeroed. Such assumption is not true, as a few H/W NICs can set such flag when H/W offloading the checksum for an UDP encapsulated traffic, the tun driver can inject GSO packets with UDP encapsulation and the problematic layout can also be created via a veth based setup. Due to the above, in the problematic scenarios, udp4_gro_complete() uses the wrong network offset (inner instead of outer) to compute the outer UDP header pseudo checksum, leading to csum validation errors later on in packet processing. Address the issue always clearing the encapsulation flag at GRO completion time. Such flag will be set again as needed for encapsulated packets by udp_gro_complete(). Fixes: 5ef31ea5d053 ("net: gro: fix udp bad offset in socket lookup by adding {inner_}network_offset to napi_gro_cb") Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/562638dbebb3b15424220e26a180274b387e2a88.1770032084.git.pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values

2025-11-24T09:30:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit 14ad6ed30a10afbe91b0749d6378285f4225d482 ] Sabrina reported the following splat: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0 Code: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe <0f> 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48 RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6 RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168 R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270 xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0 xfrm_init+0x38/0x50 ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350 ip_init+0xf/0x20 inet_init+0x406/0x590 do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0 do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280 kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490 kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0 ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 irq event stamp: 584330 hardirqs last enabled at (584338): [] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0 hardirqs last disabled at (584345): [] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0 softirqs last enabled at (583242): [] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470 softirqs last disabled at (583754): [] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0 on kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) is smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD. Such built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache so that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering the splat. Note that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned revert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP and GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb() to select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache. Reported-by: Sabrina Dubroca Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Fixes: 3948b05950fd ("net: introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS") Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni [ Minor context change fixed. ] Signed-off-by: Wenshan Lan Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: Clear old fragment checksum value in napi_reuse_skb

2025-03-07T15:45:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 49806fe6e61b045b5be8610e08b5a3083c109aa0 ] In certain cases, napi_get_frags() returns an skb that points to an old received fragment, This skb may have its skb->ip_summed, csum, and other fields set from previous fragment handling. Some network drivers set skb->ip_summed to either CHECKSUM_COMPLETE or CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY when getting skb from napi_get_frags(), while others only set skb->ip_summed when RX checksum offload is enabled on the device, and do not set any value for skb->ip_summed when hardware checksum offload is disabled, assuming that the skb->ip_summed initiated to zero by napi_reuse_skb, ionic driver for example will ignore/unset any value for the ip_summed filed if HW checksum offload is disabled, and if we have a situation where the user disables the checksum offload during a traffic that could lead to the following errors shown in the kernel logs: dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48 __skb_gro_checksum_complete+0x7e/0x90 tcp6_gro_receive+0xc6/0x190 ipv6_gro_receive+0x1ec/0x430 dev_gro_receive+0x188/0x360 ? ionic_rx_clean+0x25a/0x460 [ionic] napi_gro_frags+0x13c/0x300 ? __pfx_ionic_rx_service+0x10/0x10 [ionic] ionic_rx_service+0x67/0x80 [ionic] ionic_cq_service+0x58/0x90 [ionic] ionic_txrx_napi+0x64/0x1b0 [ionic] __napi_poll+0x27/0x170 net_rx_action+0x29c/0x370 handle_softirqs+0xce/0x270 __irq_exit_rcu+0xa3/0xc0 common_interrupt+0x80/0xa0 This inconsistency sometimes leads to checksum validation issues in the upper layers of the network stack. To resolve this, this patch clears the skb->ip_summed value for each reused skb in by napi_reuse_skb(), ensuring that the caller is responsible for setting the correct checksum status. This eliminates potential checksum validation issues caused by improper handling of skb->ip_summed. Fixes: 76620aafd66f ("gro: New frags interface to avoid copying shinfo") Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250225112852.2507709-1-mheib@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: Add netif_get_gro_max_size helper for GRO

2024-10-10T09:57:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit e8d4d34df715133c319fabcf63fdec684be75ff8 ] Add a small netif_get_gro_max_size() helper which returns the maximum IPv4 or IPv6 GRO size of the netdevice. We later add a netif_get_gso_max_size() equivalent as well for GSO, so that these helpers can be used consistently instead of open-coded checks. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240923212242.15669-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: e609c959a939 ("net: Fix gso_features_check to check for both dev->gso_{ipv4_,}max_size") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin