kernel/linux.git/net/core, branch v6.6.152

xdp: reject clones that overrun skb_shared_info tailroom

2026-08-19T16:13:13+00:00

commit e48e8edbef2eb824201495daa5234560f632b23c upstream. xdpf_clone() clones broadcast copies into a single page and sets frame_sz to PAGE_SIZE. __xdp_build_skb_from_frame() later treats that page like a normal XDP frame and expects the usual skb_shared_info tailroom at the end of the buffer. The current check only rejects frames whose linear xdp_frame header, headroom, and packet data exceed PAGE_SIZE. A source frame backed by a larger allocation can still satisfy that check while extending into the clone's required shared-info area. When such a clone is converted back into an skb, build_skb_around() places skb_shared_info over live packet bytes and later writes can corrupt XDP return metadata. Reject clones unless their linear area fits inside SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE), matching the tailroom requirement already enforced by the XDP-to-skb conversion path. Fixes: e624d4ed4aa8 ("xdp: Extend xdp_redirect_map with broadcast support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Vega Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6b2afef5d1738763c6965e8e466eb16e43e4f956.1785757386.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() from sk_mc_loop()

2026-08-19T16:13:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit b8a39a09ae4eaae04309e1e38ed6a1101d967496 ] sk_mc_loop() can be called for sockets that are neither AF_INET nor AF_INET6 (e.g. AF_PACKET sockets when sending packets via raw/packet socket over virtual devices such as VRF or ipvlan). In such cases, sk_family is not AF_INET/AF_INET6 and sk_mc_loop() falls through the switch statement and triggers WARN_ON_ONCE(1). Non-INET sockets do not support IP_MULTICAST_LOOP or IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP options, so loopback should default to true without generating a warning. Fixes: f60e5990d9c1 ("ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive dereference inside the stack") Reported-by: syzbot+22c3218a6fa219e47321@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a72024c.13623e66.bdc14.0019.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804152048.2134341-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: sched: refine software bypass handling in tc_run

2026-08-19T16:13:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit a12c76a03386e32413ae8eaaefa337e491880632 ] This patch addresses issues with filter counting in block (tcf_block), particularly for software bypass scenarios, by introducing a more accurate mechanism using useswcnt. Previously, filtercnt and skipswcnt were introduced by: Commit 2081fd3445fe ("net: sched: cls_api: add filter counter") and Commit f631ef39d819 ("net: sched: cls_api: add skip_sw counter") filtercnt tracked all tp (tcf_proto) objects added to a block, and skipswcnt counted tp objects with the skipsw attribute set. The problem is: a single tp can contain multiple filters, some with skipsw and others without. The current implementation fails in the case: When the first filter in a tp has skipsw, both skipswcnt and filtercnt are incremented, then adding a second filter without skipsw to the same tp does not modify these counters because tp->counted is already set. This results in bypass software behavior based solely on skipswcnt equaling filtercnt, even when the block includes filters without skipsw. Consequently, filters without skipsw are inadvertently bypassed. To address this, the patch introduces useswcnt in block to explicitly count tp objects containing at least one filter without skipsw. Key changes include: Whenever a filter without skipsw is added, its tp is marked with usesw and counted in useswcnt. tc_run() now uses useswcnt to determine software bypass, eliminating reliance on filtercnt and skipswcnt. This refined approach prevents software bypass for blocks containing mixed filters, ensuring correct behavior in tc_run(). Additionally, as atomic operations on useswcnt ensure thread safety and tp->lock guards access to tp->usesw and tp->counted, the broader lock down_write(&block->cb_lock) is no longer required in tc_new_tfilter(), and this resolves a performance regression caused by the filter counting mechanism during parallel filter insertions. The improvement can be demonstrated using the following script: # cat insert_tc_rules.sh tc qdisc add dev ens1f0np0 ingress for i in $(seq 16); do taskset -c $i tc -b rules_$i.txt & done wait Each of rules_$i.txt files above includes 100000 tc filter rules to a mlx5 driver NIC ens1f0np0. Without this patch: # time sh insert_tc_rules.sh real 0m50.780s user 0m23.556s sys 4m13.032s With this patch: # time sh insert_tc_rules.sh real 0m17.718s user 0m7.807s sys 3m45.050s Fixes: 047f340b36fc ("net: sched: make skip_sw actually skip software") Reported-by: Shuang Li Signed-off-by: Xin Long Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Reviewed-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Tested-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a347304b2ca1 ("net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: sched: make skip_sw actually skip software

2026-08-19T16:13:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 047f340b36fc550c0fc6a8947fc0a1f8e429e9ab ] TC filters come in 3 variants: - no flag (try to process in hardware, but fallback to software)) - skip_hw (do not process filter by hardware) - skip_sw (do not process filter by software) However skip_sw is implemented so that the skip_sw flag can first be checked, after it has been matched. IMHO it's common when using skip_sw, to use it on all rules. So if all filters in a block is skip_sw filters, then we can bail early, we can thus avoid having to match the filters, just to check for the skip_sw flag. This patch adds a bypass, for when only TC skip_sw rules are used. The bypass is guarded by a static key, to avoid harming other workloads. There are 3 ways that a packet from a skip_sw ruleset, can end up in the kernel path. Although the send packets to a non-existent chain way is only improved a few percents, then I believe it's worth optimizing the trap and fall-though use-cases. +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | Test description | Pre- | Post- | Rel. | | | kpps | kpps | chg. | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | basic forwarding + notrack | 3589.3 | 3587.9 | 1.00x | | switch to eswitch mode | 3081.8 | 3094.7 | 1.00x | | add ingress qdisc | 3042.9 | 3063.6 | 1.01x | | tc forward in hw / skip_sw |37024.7 |37028.4 | 1.00x | | tc forward in sw / skip_hw | 3245.0 | 3245.3 | 1.00x | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | tests with only skip_sw rules below: | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | 1 non-matching rule | 2694.7 | 3058.7 | 1.14x | | 1 n-m rule, match trap | 2611.2 | 3323.1 | 1.27x | | 1 n-m rule, goto non-chain | 2886.8 | 2945.9 | 1.02x | | 5 non-matching rules | 1958.2 | 3061.3 | 1.56x | | 5 n-m rules, match trap | 1911.9 | 3327.0 | 1.74x | | 5 n-m rules, goto non-chain| 2883.1 | 2947.5 | 1.02x | | 10 non-matching rules | 1466.3 | 3062.8 | 2.09x | | 10 n-m rules, match trap | 1444.3 | 3317.9 | 2.30x | | 10 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2883.1 | 2939.5 | 1.02x | | 25 non-matching rules | 838.5 | 3058.9 | 3.65x | | 25 n-m rules, match trap | 824.5 | 3323.0 | 4.03x | | 25 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2875.8 | 2944.7 | 1.02x | | 50 non-matching rules | 488.1 | 3054.7 | 6.26x | | 50 n-m rules, match trap | 484.9 | 3318.5 | 6.84x | | 50 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2884.1 | 2939.7 | 1.02x | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ perf top (25 n-m skip_sw rules - pre patch): 20.39% [kernel] [k] __skb_flow_dissect 16.43% [kernel] [k] rhashtable_jhash2 10.58% [kernel] [k] fl_classify 10.23% [kernel] [k] fl_mask_lookup 4.79% [kernel] [k] memset_orig 2.58% [kernel] [k] tcf_classify 1.47% [kernel] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_rax 1.42% [kernel] [k] __dev_queue_xmit 1.36% [kernel] [k] nft_do_chain 1.21% [kernel] [k] __rcu_read_lock perf top (25 n-m skip_sw rules - post patch): 5.12% [kernel] [k] __dev_queue_xmit 4.77% [kernel] [k] nft_do_chain 3.65% [kernel] [k] dev_gro_receive 3.41% [kernel] [k] check_preemption_disabled 3.14% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_nonlinear 2.88% [kernel] [k] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 2.49% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_xmit 2.15% [kernel] [k] ip_forward 1.95% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_tc_restore_tunnel 1.92% [kernel] [k] vlan_gro_receive Test setup: DUT: Intel Xeon D-1518 (2.20GHz) w/ Nvidia/Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx 2x100G Data rate measured on switch (Extreme X690), and DUT connected as a router on a stick, with pktgen and pktsink as VLANs. Pktgen-dpdk was in range 36.6-37.7 Mpps 64B packets across all tests. Full test data at https://files.fiberby.net/ast/2024/tc_skip_sw/v2_tests/ Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a347304b2ca1 ("net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg

2026-08-09T18:22:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit bfa858f220ab8c950dd3e1310fee61950d0ecdae ] To be able to constify instances of struct ctl_tables it is necessary to remove ways through which non-const versions are exposed from the sysctl core. One of these is the ctl_table_arg member of struct ctl_table_header. Constify this reference as a prerequisite for the full constification of struct ctl_table instances. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: f8d5e7846025 ("sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bpf: lwt: Fix dst reference leak on reroute failure

2026-08-09T18:21:52+00:00

commit 88c17de85ddb459c3fe1e3c65d61fa366b1cf0a8 upstream. bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute() obtains a referenced dst from the route lookup. When skb_cow_head() fails before that dst is installed on the skb, the error path only frees the skb. The skb still owns its previous dst, so the newly looked up dst reference is leaked. Release the new dst reference before freeing the skb on this error path. Fixes: 3bd0b15281af ("bpf: add handling of BPF_LWT_REROUTE to lwt_bpf.c") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Xuanqiang Luo Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260723060445.21926-1-xuanqiang.luo@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bpf, sockmap: Reject unhashed UDP sockets on sockmap update

2026-08-03T09:15:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 66efd3368ae10d05e08fbe6425b50fdec7186ac7 ] UDP sockets get SOCK_RCU_FREE set when (auto-)bound. This means sk_is_refcounted(unbound) = true, while sk_is_refcounted(bound) = false. Because sockmap accepts unbound UDP sockets, a BPF program can increment a socket's refcount via lookup. If the socket is subsequently bound, the transition from unbound to bound causes bpf_sk_release() to skip the decrement of the refcount, causing a memory leak. unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc2eb40 (size 1984): comm "test_progs", pid 2451, jiffies 4295320596 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 7f 00 00 01 7f 00 00 01 d2 04 1b b7 04 d2 00 00 ................ 02 00 01 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...@............ backtrace (crc bdee079d): kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x557/0x660 sk_prot_alloc+0x69/0x240 sk_alloc+0x30/0x460 inet_create+0x2ce/0xf80 __sock_create+0x25b/0x5c0 __sys_socket+0x119/0x1d0 __x64_sys_socket+0x72/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0xa1/0x5f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Instead of special-casing for refcounted sockets, reject unhashed UDP sockets during sockmap updates, as there is no benefit to supporting those. This effectively reverts the commit under Fixes, with two exceptions: 1. sock_map_sk_state_allowed() maintains a fall-through `return true`. 2. In the spirit of commit b8b8315e39ff ("bpf, sockmap: Remove unhash handler for BPF sockmap usage"), the proto::unhash BPF handler is not reintroduced. Historical note: this issue is related to commit 67312adc96b5 ("bpf: reject unhashed sockets in bpf_sk_assign"). Fixes: 0c48eefae712 ("sock_map: Lift socket state restriction for datagram sockets") Suggested-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki Reviewed-by: John Fastabend Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260707-sockmap-lookup-udp-leak-v4-2-f878346f27ab@rbox.co Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net, bpf: check master for NULL in xdp_master_redirect()

2026-07-24T14:03:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit e82d8cc4321c373dc46e741cd2dfdaa7921fddb7 ] xdp_master_redirect() dereferences the result of netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu() without a NULL check, but that helper returns NULL when the receiving device has no upper-master adjacency. The reach guard only checks netif_is_bond_slave(). On bond slave release bond_upper_dev_unlink() drops the upper-master adjacency before clearing IFF_SLAVE, so an XDP_TX reaching xdp_master_redirect() in that window still passes netif_is_bond_slave() while master is already NULL, and faults on master->flags at offset 0xb0: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000b0 RIP: 0010:xdp_master_redirect (net/core/filter.c:4432) Call Trace: xdp_master_redirect (net/core/filter.c:4432) bpf_prog_run_generic_xdp (include/net/xdp.h:700) do_xdp_generic (net/core/dev.c:5608) __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6204) process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6319) __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7729) net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7792) handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622) __dev_queue_xmit (include/linux/bottom_half.h:33) packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3082) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2252) Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt The missing check dates back to the original code; commit 1921f91298d1 ("net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master") later added the master->flags read where the fault now lands but kept the unconditional deref. Check master for NULL before use; a NULL master is treated the same as one that is not up. Fixes: 879af96ffd72 ("net, core: Add support for XDP redirection to slave device") Reported-by: Weiming Shi Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260620201531.180123-1-xmei5@asu.edu Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: zero-initialize the fib lookup flow struct

2026-07-24T14:03:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0dfcb68a6a5ac517b22dff6a1f01cb4f126dfc57 ] bpf_ipv4_fib_lookup() and bpf_ipv6_fib_lookup() build the flow key on the stack with a bare "struct flowi4 fl4;" / "struct flowi6 fl6;" and fill it field by field, but never set flowi4_l3mdev / flowi6_l3mdev. On the non-DIRECT path the lookup goes through the fib rules whenever the netns has custom rules, which a VRF installs: bpf_ipv4_fib_lookup() -> fib_lookup() -> __fib_lookup() -> l3mdev_update_flow() reads !fl->flowi_l3mdev -> fib_rules_lookup() -> fib_rule_match() -> l3mdev_fib_rule_match() uses fl->flowi_l3mdev l3mdev_update_flow() resolves the l3mdev master from the ingress device only while the field is still zero. Left at a nonzero stack value the resolution is skipped, and l3mdev_fib_rule_match() then tests that value as an ifindex, so the VRF master is not resolved and the rule fails to match: an ingress enslaved to a VRF can fail to select its table. FIB rules matching on an L3 master device (l3mdev_fib_rule_iif_match()/ _oif_match()) read the same value, so an "ip rule iif/oif " mismatches the same way. Zero-initialize the whole flow struct rather than adding one more field assignment, so any flowi field added later is covered too. ip_route_input_slow() likewise zeroes the field before its input lookup. CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO masks this by default, but it depends on compiler support (CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO), so INIT_STACK_NONE builds, including older toolchains that fall back to it, are exposed. Built with INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, a plain bpf_fib_lookup (no VLAN, no DIRECT) over a VRF slave whose destination is routed only in the VRF table returns BPF_FIB_LKUP_RET_NOT_FWDED, and resolves with this patch. On the default config the lookup succeeds either way, so ordinary testing does not catch the bug. Fixes: 40867d74c374 ("net: Add l3mdev index to flow struct and avoid oif reset for port devices") Signed-off-by: Avinash Duduskar Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260617224719.1428599-1-avinash.duduskar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

flow_dissector: check device type before reading ETH_ADDRS

2026-07-24T14:03:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit bf6e8af2c8be77489bedeae9f8a9654cb710e500 ] __skb_flow_dissect() unconditionally reads 12 bytes from eth_hdr(skb) when FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_ETH_ADDRS is requested. This assumes the skb has a valid Ethernet header at mac_header, which is not always the case. The problem can be triggered by: 1. Creating a TUN device in L3 mode (IFF_TUN, hard_header_len=0) 2. Attaching a multiq qdisc with a flower filter matching on eth_src 3. Sending a packet through AF_PACKET Since TUN in L3 mode has no link-layer header, mac_header points to the L3 data area. The flow dissector reads 12 bytes of uninitialized skb memory, which then propagates through fl_set_masked_key() and is used as a rhashtable lookup key in __fl_lookup(), as reported by KMSAN. Rejecting the filter in the control path (at tc filter add time) is not feasible because TC filter blocks can be shared between arbitrary devices -- a filter installed on an Ethernet device may later classify packets on a headerless device through a shared block. The device association is not fixed at filter creation time. Fix this by gating the memcpy on dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER, which ensures only true Ethernet-framed packets have their addresses read. This is more precise than the previous hard_header_len >= 12 check, which would incorrectly pass for non-Ethernet link types like IPoIB (ARPHRD_INFINIBAND, hard_header_len=24) and FDDI (hard_header_len=21) whose L2 headers are not in Ethernet format. Additionally check skb_mac_header_was_set() to guard against the pathological case where mac_header is the unset sentinel (~0U), which would cause eth_hdr() to return a wild pointer. For the act_mirred redirect case (Ethernet packet redirected to a non-Ethernet device sharing a TC block), zeroing the key is the correct behavior: the packet is now being classified on the target device, where Ethernet address matching is not semantically meaningful. Note: on non-Ethernet devices, the zeroed key will match a filter configured with all-zero MAC addresses. This is an improvement over the previous behavior where uninitialized memory could randomly match any filter. Reported-by: syzbot+fa2f5b1fb06147be5e16@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fa2f5b1fb06147be5e16 Fixes: 67a900cc0436 ("flow_dissector: introduce support for Ethernet addresses") Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616123057.482154-1-yun.zhou@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin