kernel/linux.git/net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c, branch v7.0.10

net/ipv6: Remove jumbo_remove step from TX path

2026-02-07T04:50:12+00:00

Now that the kernel doesn't insert HBH for BIG TCP IPv6 packets, remove unnecessary steps from the GSO TX path, that used to check and remove HBH. Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska Acked-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205133925.526371-5-alice.kernel@fastmail.im Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net/ipv6: Drop HBH for BIG TCP on RX side

2026-02-07T04:50:12+00:00

Complementary to the previous commit, stop inserting HBH when building BIG TCP GRO SKBs. Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska Acked-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205133925.526371-4-alice.kernel@fastmail.im Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net/ipv6: Introduce payload_len helpers

2026-02-07T04:50:03+00:00

The next commits will transition away from using the hop-by-hop extension header to encode packet length for BIG TCP. Add wrappers around ip6->payload_len that return the actual value if it's non-zero, and calculate it from skb->len if payload_len is set to zero (and a symmetrical setter). The new helpers are used wherever the surrounding code supports the hop-by-hop jumbo header for BIG TCP IPv6, or the corresponding IPv4 code uses skb_ip_totlen (e.g., in include/net/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv6.h). No behavioral change in this commit. Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska Acked-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205133925.526371-2-alice.kernel@fastmail.im Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

gro: inline tcp6_gro_complete()

2026-01-22T03:28:32+00:00

Remove one function call from GRO stack for native IPv6 + TCP packets. $ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.2 vmlinux.3 add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 298/-5 (293) Function old new delta ipv6_gro_complete 435 733 +298 tcp6_gro_complete 311 306 -5 Total: Before=22593532, After=22593825, chg +0.00% Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120164903.1912995-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

gro: inline tcp6_gro_receive()

2026-01-22T03:28:32+00:00

FDO/LTO are unable to inline tcp6_gro_receive() from ipv6_gro_receive() Make sure tcp6_check_fraglist_gro() is only called only when needed, so that compiler can leave it out-of-line. $ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.1 vmlinux.2 add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 3/1 up/down: 1123/-253 (870) Function old new delta ipv6_gro_receive 1069 1846 +777 tcp6_check_fraglist_gro - 272 +272 ipv6_offload_init 218 274 +56 __pfx_tcp6_check_fraglist_gro - 16 +16 ipv6_gro_complete 433 435 +2 tcp6_gro_receive 959 706 -253 Total: Before=22592662, After=22593532, chg +0.00% Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120164903.1912995-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment()

2025-08-01T21:40:53+00:00

syzbot was able to craft a packet with very long IPv6 extension headers leading to an overflow of skb->transport_header. This 16bit field has a limited range. Add skb_reset_transport_header_careful() helper and use it from ipv6_gso_segment() WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5871 Comm: syz-executor211 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-syzkaller-g7abc678e3084 #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025 RIP: 0010:skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline] RIP: 0010:ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151 Call Trace: skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53 nsh_gso_segment+0x54a/0xe10 net/nsh/nsh.c:110 skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53 __skb_gso_segment+0x342/0x510 net/core/gso.c:124 skb_gso_segment include/net/gso.h:83 [inline] validate_xmit_skb+0x857/0x11b0 net/core/dev.c:3950 validate_xmit_skb_list+0x84/0x120 net/core/dev.c:4000 sch_direct_xmit+0xd3/0x4b0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:329 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4102 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x17b6/0x3a70 net/core/dev.c:4679 Fixes: d1da932ed4ec ("ipv6: Separate ipv6 offload support") Reported-by: syzbot+af43e647fd835acc02df@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/688a1a05.050a0220.5d226.0008.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Dawid Osuchowski Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250730131738.3385939-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: gro: initialize network_offset in network layer

2024-05-27T23:46:59+00:00

Syzkaller was able to trigger kernel BUG at net/core/gro.c:424 ! RIP: 0010:gro_pull_from_frag0 net/core/gro.c:424 [inline] RIP: 0010:gro_try_pull_from_frag0 net/core/gro.c:446 [inline] RIP: 0010:dev_gro_receive+0x242f/0x24b0 net/core/gro.c:571 Due to using an incorrect NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->network_offset. The referenced commit sets this offset to 0 in skb_gro_reset_offset. That matches the expected case in dev_gro_receive: pp = INDIRECT_CALL_INET(ptype->callbacks.gro_receive, ipv6_gro_receive, inet_gro_receive, &gro_list->list, skb); But syzkaller injected an skb with protocol ETH_P_TEB into an ip6gre device (by writing the IP6GRE encapsulated version to a TAP device). The result was a first call to eth_gro_receive, and thus an extra ETH_HLEN in network_offset that should not be there. First issue hit is when computing offset from network header in ipv6_gro_pull_exthdrs. Initialize both offsets in the network layer gro_receive. This pairs with all reads in gro_receive, which use skb_gro_receive_network_offset(). Fixes: 186b1ea73ad8 ("net: gro: use cb instead of skb->network_header") Reported-by: syzkaller Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn CC: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240523141434.1752483-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: gro: move L3 flush checks to tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive_segment

2024-05-13T21:44:06+00:00

{inet,ipv6}_gro_receive functions perform flush checks (ttl, flags, iph->id, ...) against all packets in a loop. These flush checks are used in all merging UDP and TCP flows. These checks need to be done only once and only against the found p skb, since they only affect flush and not same_flow. This patch leverages correct network header offsets from the cb for both outer and inner network headers - allowing these checks to be done only once, in tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive_segment. As a result, NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->flush is not used at all. In addition, flush_id checks are more declarative and contained in inet_gro_flush, thus removing the need for flush_id in napi_gro_cb. This results in less parsing code for non-loop flush tests for TCP and UDP flows. To make sure results are not within noise range - I've made netfilter drop all TCP packets, and measured CPU performance in GRO (in this case GRO is responsible for about 50% of the CPU utilization). perf top while replaying 64 parallel IP/TCP streams merging in GRO: (gro_receive_network_flush is compiled inline to tcp_gro_receive) net-next: 6.94% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive 3.02% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive patch applied: 4.27% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive 4.22% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive perf top while replaying 64 parallel IP/IP/TCP streams merging in GRO (same results for any encapsulation, in this case inet_gro_receive is top offender in net-next) net-next: 10.09% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive 2.08% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive patch applied: 6.97% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive 3.68% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509190819.2985-3-richardbgobert@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: gro: use cb instead of skb->network_header

2024-05-13T21:44:06+00:00

This patch converts references of skb->network_header to napi_gro_cb's network_offset and inner_network_offset. Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509190819.2985-2-richardbgobert@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: gro: fix udp bad offset in socket lookup by adding {inner_}network_offset to napi_gro_cb

2024-05-02T09:02:48+00:00

Commits a602456 ("udp: Add GRO functions to UDP socket") and 57c67ff ("udp: additional GRO support") introduce incorrect usage of {ip,ipv6}_hdr in the complete phase of gro. The functions always return skb->network_header, which in the case of encapsulated packets at the gro complete phase, is always set to the innermost L3 of the packet. That means that calling {ip,ipv6}_hdr for skbs which completed the GRO receive phase (both in gro_list and *_gro_complete) when parsing an encapsulated packet's _outer_ L3/L4 may return an unexpected value. This incorrect usage leads to a bug in GRO's UDP socket lookup. udp{4,6}_lib_lookup_skb functions use ip_hdr/ipv6_hdr respectively. These *_hdr functions return network_header which will point to the innermost L3, resulting in the wrong offset being used in __udp{4,6}_lib_lookup with encapsulated packets. This patch adds network_offset and inner_network_offset to napi_gro_cb, and makes sure both are set correctly. To fix the issue, network_offsets union is used inside napi_gro_cb, in which both the outer and the inner network offsets are saved. Reproduction example: Endpoint configuration example (fou + local address bind) # ip fou add port 6666 ipproto 4 # ip link add name tun1 type ipip remote 2.2.2.1 local 2.2.2.2 encap fou encap-dport 5555 encap-sport 6666 mode ipip # ip link set tun1 up # ip a add 1.1.1.2/24 dev tun1 Netperf TCP_STREAM result on net-next before patch is applied: net-next main, GRO enabled: $ netperf -H 1.1.1.2 -t TCP_STREAM -l 5 Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 131072 16384 16384 5.28 2.37 net-next main, GRO disabled: $ netperf -H 1.1.1.2 -t TCP_STREAM -l 5 Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 131072 16384 16384 5.01 2745.06 patch applied, GRO enabled: $ netperf -H 1.1.1.2 -t TCP_STREAM -l 5 Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 131072 16384 16384 5.01 2877.38 Fixes: a6024562ffd7 ("udp: Add GRO functions to UDP socket") Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni