kernel/linux.git/net/core/skbuff.c, branch v6.6.132

net: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets

2026-01-17T15:29:59+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 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: allow alloc_skb_with_frags() to use MAX_SKB_FRAGS

2025-10-02T11:42:51+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

ipvs: Always clear ipvs_property flag in skb_scrub_packet()

2025-03-07T15:45:40+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: core: reject skb_copy(_expand) for fraglist GSO skbs

2024-05-17T10:02:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit d091e579b864fa790dd6a0cd537a22c383126681 ] SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST skbs must not be linearized, otherwise they become invalid. Return NULL if such an skb is passed to skb_copy or skb_copy_expand, in order to prevent a crash on a potential later call to skb_gso_segment. Fixes: 3a1296a38d0c ("net: Support GRO/GSO fraglist chaining.") Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: mctp: copy skb ext data when fragmenting

2024-03-26T22:19:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1394c1dec1c619a46867ed32791a29695372bff8 ] If we're fragmenting on local output, the original packet may contain ext data for the MCTP flows. We'll want this in the resulting fragment skbs too. So, do a skb_ext_copy() in the fragmentation path, and implement the MCTP-specific parts of an ext copy operation. Fixes: 67737c457281 ("mctp: Pass flow data & flow release events to drivers") Reported-by: Jian Zhang Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: prevent mss overflow in skb_segment()

2024-01-10T16:16:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 23d05d563b7e7b0314e65c8e882bc27eac2da8e7 ] Once again syzbot is able to crash the kernel in skb_segment() [1] GSO_BY_FRAGS is a forbidden value, but unfortunately the following computation in skb_segment() can reach it quite easily : mss = mss * partial_segs; 65535 = 3 * 5 * 17 * 257, so many initial values of mss can lead to a bad final result. Make sure to limit segmentation so that the new mss value is smaller than GSO_BY_FRAGS. [1] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000e: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000070-0x0000000000000077] CPU: 1 PID: 5079 Comm: syz-executor993 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc4-syzkaller-00141-g1ae4cd3cbdd0 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/10/2023 RIP: 0010:skb_segment+0x181d/0x3f30 net/core/skbuff.c:4551 Code: 83 e3 02 e9 fb ed ff ff e8 90 68 1c f9 48 8b 84 24 f8 00 00 00 48 8d 78 70 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 8a 21 00 00 48 8b 84 24 f8 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc900043473d0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000010046 RCX: ffffffff886b1597 RDX: 000000000000000e RSI: ffffffff886b2520 RDI: 0000000000000070 RBP: ffffc90004347578 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 000000000000ffff R10: 000000000000ffff R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff888063202ac0 R13: 0000000000010000 R14: 000000000000ffff R15: 0000000000000046 FS: 0000555556e7e380(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020010000 CR3: 0000000027ee2000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: udp6_ufo_fragment+0xa0e/0xd00 net/ipv6/udp_offload.c:109 ipv6_gso_segment+0x534/0x17e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:120 skb_mac_gso_segment+0x290/0x610 net/core/gso.c:53 __skb_gso_segment+0x339/0x710 net/core/gso.c:124 skb_gso_segment include/net/gso.h:83 [inline] validate_xmit_skb+0x36c/0xeb0 net/core/dev.c:3626 __dev_queue_xmit+0x6f3/0x3d60 net/core/dev.c:4338 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline] packet_xmit+0x257/0x380 net/packet/af_packet.c:276 packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3087 [inline] packet_sendmsg+0x24c6/0x5220 net/packet/af_packet.c:3119 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0xd5/0x180 net/socket.c:745 __sys_sendto+0x255/0x340 net/socket.c:2190 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2202 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2198 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2198 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x40/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b RIP: 0033:0x7f8692032aa9 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 d1 19 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007fff8d685418 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007f8692032aa9 RDX: 0000000000010048 RSI: 00000000200000c0 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00000000000f4240 R08: 0000000020000540 R09: 0000000000000014 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff8d685480 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007fff8d685480 R15: 0000000000000003 Modules linked in: ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- RIP: 0010:skb_segment+0x181d/0x3f30 net/core/skbuff.c:4551 Code: 83 e3 02 e9 fb ed ff ff e8 90 68 1c f9 48 8b 84 24 f8 00 00 00 48 8d 78 70 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 8a 21 00 00 48 8b 84 24 f8 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc900043473d0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000010046 RCX: ffffffff886b1597 RDX: 000000000000000e RSI: ffffffff886b2520 RDI: 0000000000000070 RBP: ffffc90004347578 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 000000000000ffff R10: 000000000000ffff R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff888063202ac0 R13: 0000000000010000 R14: 000000000000ffff R15: 0000000000000046 FS: 0000555556e7e380(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020010000 CR3: 0000000027ee2000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Fixes: 3953c46c3ac7 ("sk_buff: allow segmenting based on frag sizes") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231212164621.4131800-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: avoid build bug in skb extension length calculation

2024-01-01T12:42:42+00:00

commit d6e5794b06c0fab74fe6e4fa55d508a5ceb14735 upstream. GCC seems to incorrectly fail to evaluate skb_ext_total_length() at compile time under certain conditions. The issue even occurs if all values in skb_ext_type_len[] are "0", ruling out the possibility of an actual overflow. As the patch has been in mainline since v6.6 without triggering the problem it seems to be a very uncommon occurrence. As the issue only occurs when -fno-tree-loop-im is specified as part of CFLAGS_GCOV, disable the BUILD_BUG_ON() only when building with coverage reporting enabled. Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312171924.4FozI5FG-lkp@intel.com/ Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/487cfd35-fe68-416f-9bfd-6bb417f98304@app.fastmail.com/ Fixes: 5d21d0a65b57 ("net: generalize calculation of skb extensions length") Cc: Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231218-net-skbuff-build-bug-v1-1-eefc2fb0a7d3@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: skb_find_text: Ignore patterns extending past 'to'

2023-11-20T10:59:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit c4eee56e14fe001e1cff54f0b438a5e2d0dd7454 ] Assume that caller's 'to' offset really represents an upper boundary for the pattern search, so patterns extending past this offset are to be rejected. The old behaviour also was kind of inconsistent when it comes to fragmentation (or otherwise non-linear skbs): If the pattern started in between 'to' and 'from' offsets but extended to the next fragment, it was not found if 'to' offset was still within the current fragment. Test the new behaviour in a kselftest using iptables' string match. Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Fixes: f72b948dcbb8 ("[NET]: skb_find_text ignores to argument") Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal Reviewed-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: deal with integer overflows in kmalloc_reserve()

2023-09-04T05:49:31+00:00

Blamed commit changed: ptr = kmalloc(size); if (ptr) size = ksize(ptr); to: size = kmalloc_size_roundup(size); ptr = kmalloc(size); This allowed various crash as reported by syzbot [1] and Kyle Zeng. Problem is that if @size is bigger than 0x80000001, kmalloc_size_roundup(size) returns 2^32. kmalloc_reserve() uses a 32bit variable (obj_size), so 2^32 is truncated to 0. kmalloc(0) returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR which is not handled by skb allocations. Following trace can be triggered if a netdev->mtu is set close to 0x7fffffff We might in the future limit netdev->mtu to more sensible limit (like KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE). This patch is based on a syzbot report, and also a report and tentative fix from Kyle Zeng. [1] BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in __build_skb_around net/core/skbuff.c:294 [inline] BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in __alloc_skb+0x3c4/0x6e8 net/core/skbuff.c:527 Write of size 32 at addr 00000000fffffd10 by task syz-executor.4/22554 CPU: 1 PID: 22554 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.1.39-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/03/2023 Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x1c8/0x1f4 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:279 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:286 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x120/0x1a0 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_report+0xe4/0x4b4 mm/kasan/report.c:398 kasan_report+0x150/0x1ac mm/kasan/report.c:495 kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2a4 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 memset+0x40/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:44 __build_skb_around net/core/skbuff.c:294 [inline] __alloc_skb+0x3c4/0x6e8 net/core/skbuff.c:527 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1316 [inline] igmpv3_newpack+0x104/0x1088 net/ipv4/igmp.c:359 add_grec+0x81c/0x1124 net/ipv4/igmp.c:534 igmpv3_send_cr net/ipv4/igmp.c:667 [inline] igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x1b0/0x1008 net/ipv4/igmp.c:810 call_timer_fn+0x1c0/0x9f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1474 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1519 [inline] __run_timers+0x54c/0x710 kernel/time/timer.c:1790 run_timer_softirq+0x28/0x4c kernel/time/timer.c:1803 _stext+0x380/0xfbc ____do_softirq+0x14/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c:79 call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x4c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:891 do_softirq_own_stack+0x20/0x2c arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c:84 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:437 [inline] __irq_exit_rcu+0x1c0/0x4cc kernel/softirq.c:683 irq_exit_rcu+0x14/0x78 kernel/softirq.c:695 el0_interrupt+0x7c/0x2e0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:717 __el0_irq_handler_common+0x18/0x24 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:724 el0t_64_irq_handler+0x10/0x1c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:729 el0t_64_irq+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:584 Fixes: 12d6c1d3a2ad ("skbuff: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size") Reported-by: syzbot Reported-by: Kyle Zeng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: David S. Miller