kernel/linux.git/net/core/skbuff.c, branch v6.12.92

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

2026-05-23T11:05:02+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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: skbuff: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing

2026-05-23T11:05:02+00:00

commit f84eca5817390257cef78013d0112481c503b4a3 upstream. skb_try_coalesce() can attach paged frags from @from to @to. If @from has SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set, the resulting @to skb can contain the same externally-owned or page-cache-backed frags, but the shared-frag marker is currently lost. That breaks the invariant relied on by later in-place writers. In particular, ESP input checks skb_has_shared_frag() before deciding whether an uncloned nonlinear skb can skip skb_cow_data(). If TCP receive coalescing has moved shared frags into an unmarked skb, ESP can see skb_has_shared_frag() as false and decrypt in place over page-cache backed frags. Propagate SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG when skb_try_coalesce() transfers paged frags. The tailroom copy path does not need the marker because it copies bytes into @to's linear data rather than transferring frag descriptors. Fixes: cef401de7be8 ("net: fix possible wrong checksum generation") Fixes: f4c50a4034e6 ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags") Signed-off-by: William Bowling Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Tested-by: Jiayuan Chen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260513041635.1289541-1-vakzz@zellic.io Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head

2026-04-18T08:41:59+00:00

commit 0f42e3f4fe2a58394e37241d02d9ca6ab7b7d516 upstream. SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE is intentionally set to a non-power-of-2 value (e.g. 704 on x86_64) to avoid collisions with generic kmalloc bucket sizes. This ensures that skb_kfree_head() can reliably use skb_end_offset to distinguish skb heads allocated from skb_small_head_cache vs. generic kmalloc caches. However, when KFENCE is enabled, kfence_ksize() returns the exact requested allocation size instead of the slab bucket size. If a caller (e.g. bpf_test_init) allocates skb head data via kzalloc() and the requested size happens to equal SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE, then slab_build_skb() -> ksize() returns that exact value. After subtracting skb_shared_info overhead, skb_end_offset ends up matching SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM, causing skb_kfree_head() to incorrectly free the object to skb_small_head_cache instead of back to the original kmalloc cache, resulting in a slab cross-cache free: kmem_cache_free(skbuff_small_head): Wrong slab cache. Expected skbuff_small_head but got kmalloc-1k Fix this by always calling kfree(head) in skb_kfree_head(). This keeps the free path generic and avoids allocator-specific misclassification for KFENCE objects. Fixes: bf9f1baa279f ("net: add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head") Reported-by: Antonius Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8a0jxC5L5N7hq-DT2_NhUyjBxrPocoiDazzsBk4TGgT1r4-A@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403014517.142550-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets

2026-01-17T15:31:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 238e03d0466239410b72294b79494e43d4fabe77 ] When skb_segment_list() is called during packet forwarding, it handles packets that were aggregated by the GRO engine. Historically, the segmentation logic in skb_segment_list assumes that individual segments are split from a parent SKB and may need to carry their own socket memory accounting. Accordingly, the code transfers truesize from the parent to the newly created segments. Prior to commit ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer"), this truesize subtraction in skb_segment_list() was valid because fragments still carry a reference to the original socket. However, commit ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer") changed this behavior by ensuring that fraglist entries are explicitly orphaned (skb->sk = NULL) to prevent illegal orphaning later in the stack. This change meant that the entire socket memory charge remained with the head SKB, but the corresponding accounting logic in skb_segment_list() was never updated. As a result, the current code unconditionally adds each fragment's truesize to delta_truesize and subtracts it from the parent SKB. Since the fragments are no longer charged to the socket, this subtraction results in an effective under-count of memory when the head is freed. This causes sk_wmem_alloc to remain non-zero, preventing socket destruction and leading to a persistent memory leak. The leak can be observed via KMEMLEAK when tearing down the networking environment: unreferenced object 0xffff8881e6eb9100 (size 2048): comm "ping", pid 6720, jiffies 4295492526 backtrace: kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x5c6/0x800 sk_prot_alloc+0x5b/0x220 sk_alloc+0x35/0xa00 inet6_create.part.0+0x303/0x10d0 __sock_create+0x248/0x640 __sys_socket+0x11b/0x1d0 Since skb_segment_list() is exclusively used for SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST packets constructed by GRO, the truesize adjustment is removed. The call to skb_release_head_state() must be preserved. As documented in commit cf673ed0e057 ("net: fix fraglist segmentation reference count leak"), it is still required to correctly drop references to SKB extensions that may be overwritten during __copy_skb_header(). Fixes: ed4cccef64c1 ("gro: fix ownership transfer") Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260104213101.352887-1-mheib@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: allow alloc_skb_with_frags() to use MAX_SKB_FRAGS

2025-10-02T11:44:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit ca9f9cdc4de97d0221100b11224738416696163c ] Currently, alloc_skb_with_frags() will only fill (MAX_SKB_FRAGS - 1) slots. I think it should use all MAX_SKB_FRAGS slots, as callers of alloc_skb_with_frags() will size their allocation of frags based on MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This issue was discovered via a test patch that sets 'order' to 0 in alloc_skb_with_frags(), which effectively tests/simulates high fragmentation. In this case sendmsg() on unix sockets will fail every time for large allocations. If the PAGE_SIZE is 4K, then data_len will request 68K or 17 pages, but alloc_skb_with_frags() can only allocate 64K in this case or 16 pages. Fixes: 09c2c90705bb ("net: allow alloc_skb_with_frags() to allocate bigger packets") Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922191957.2855612-1-jbaron@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: netmem: fix skb_ensure_writable with unreadable skbs

2025-06-27T10:11:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6f793a1d053775f8324b8dba1e7ed224f8b0166f ] skb_ensure_writable should succeed when it's trying to write to the header of the unreadable skbs, so it doesn't need an unconditional skb_frags_readable check. The preceding pskb_may_pull() call will succeed if write_len is within the head and fail if we're trying to write to the unreadable payload, so we don't need an additional check. Removing this check restores DSCP functionality with unreadable skbs as it's called from dscp_tg. Cc: willemb@google.com Cc: asml.silence@gmail.com Fixes: 65249feb6b3d ("net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags") Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250615200733.520113-1-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

page_pool: Move pp_magic check into helper functions

2025-06-19T13:31:42+00:00

[ Upstream commit cd3c93167da0e760b5819246eae7a4ea30fd014b ] Since we are about to stash some more information into the pp_magic field, let's move the magic signature checks into a pair of helper functions so it can be changed in one place. Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry Tested-by: Yonglong Liu Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250409-page-pool-track-dma-v9-1-6a9ef2e0cba8@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: Always clear ipvs_property flag in skb_scrub_packet()

2025-03-07T17:25:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit de2c211868b9424f9aa9b3432c4430825bafb41b ] We found an issue when using bpf_redirect with ipvs NAT mode after commit ff70202b2d1a ("dev_forward_skb: do not scrub skb mark within the same name space"). Particularly, we use bpf_redirect to return the skb directly back to the netif it comes from, i.e., xnet is false in skb_scrub_packet(), and then ipvs_property is preserved and SNAT is skipped in the rx path. ipvs_property has been already cleared when netns is changed in commit 2b5ec1a5f973 ("netfilter/ipvs: clear ipvs_property flag when SKB net namespace changed"). This patch just clears it in spite of netns. Fixes: 2b5ec1a5f973 ("netfilter/ipvs: clear ipvs_property flag when SKB net namespace changed") Signed-off-by: Philo Lu Acked-by: Julian Anastasov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250222033518.126087-1-lulie@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values

2025-02-27T12:30:18+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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags

2024-09-12T03:44:31+00:00

For device memory TCP, we expect the skb headers to be available in host memory for access, and we expect the skb frags to be in device memory and unaccessible to the host. We expect there to be no mixing and matching of device memory frags (unaccessible) with host memory frags (accessible) in the same skb. Add a skb->devmem flag which indicates whether the frags in this skb are device memory frags or not. __skb_fill_netmem_desc() now checks frags added to skbs for net_iov, and marks the skb as skb->devmem accordingly. Add checks through the network stack to avoid accessing the frags of devmem skbs and avoid coalescing devmem skbs with non devmem skbs. Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Kaiyuan Zhang Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240910171458.219195-9-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski