From: Anton Danilov <littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/4] ip_tunnel: make __iptunnel_pull_header() return a drop reason
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 23:14:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005201417.906344-3-littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261005201417.906344-1-littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com>
__iptunnel_pull_header() returns -ENOMEM whenever it fails. It can
fail in two pskb_may_pull() calls, one for the tunnel header and one
for the inner Ethernet header of ETH_P_TEB, and in the skb_unclone()
done for GSO packets. pskb_may_pull() fails when the packet is shorter
than the requested length as well as when pulling from the frags cannot
allocate, so a truncated packet and an allocation failure look the same
to the callers. The ones that report a drop reason can only pick
SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM, as vxlan_rcv() does, and so would the GRE
receive paths once they report drop reasons. In ip6_gre, gre_rcv()
pulls the header before the tunnel lookup, so a packet from any sender
whose ETH_P_TEB inner Ethernet header or WCCPv2 extra word is cut short
would be reported as an out of memory condition.
Make __iptunnel_pull_header() and iptunnel_pull_header() return the
reason pskb_may_pull_reason() already computes, SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM
when skb_unclone() fails, and SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET on success. A failure
is still non-zero, so the callers that only test the result keep
working. Three callers, in ip_gre and ip6_gre, test it with "< 0"
instead; the enum has no negative values, so that test would always be
false, and the compiler does not warn about it. Make them test for a
non-zero value. vxlan_rcv() keeps reporting NOMEM for any failure until
the next patch has it report the returned reason.
Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Anton Danilov <littlesmilingcloud@gmail.com>
---
include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 10 ++++++----
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 4 ++--
net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/ip_tunnels.h b/include/net/ip_tunnels.h
index 7102aa11fae2..5cccf4c0e691 100644
--- a/include/net/ip_tunnels.h
+++ b/include/net/ip_tunnels.h
@@ -614,11 +614,13 @@ static inline u8 ip_tunnel_ecn_encap(u8 tos, const struct iphdr *iph,
return INET_ECN_encapsulate(tos, inner);
}
-int __iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
- __be16 inner_proto, bool raw_proto, bool xnet);
+enum skb_drop_reason
+__iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
+ __be16 inner_proto, bool raw_proto, bool xnet);
-static inline int iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
- __be16 inner_proto, bool xnet)
+static inline enum skb_drop_reason
+iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
+ __be16 inner_proto, bool xnet)
{
return __iptunnel_pull_header(skb, hdr_len, inner_proto, false, xnet);
}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index 51fcd603939c..3ee437fa3eae 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static int erspan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi,
if (__iptunnel_pull_header(skb,
len,
htons(ETH_P_TEB),
- false, false) < 0)
+ false, false))
goto drop;
if (tunnel->collect_md) {
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int __ipgre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tnl_ptk_info *tpi,
const struct iphdr *tnl_params;
if (__iptunnel_pull_header(skb, hdr_len, tpi->proto,
- raw_proto, false) < 0)
+ raw_proto, false))
goto drop;
/* Special case for ipgre_header_parse(), which expects the
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
index bab42b9e277f..6c2855adff28 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c
@@ -106,19 +106,24 @@ void iptunnel_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct rtable *rt, struct sk_buff *skb,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iptunnel_xmit);
-int __iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
- __be16 inner_proto, bool raw_proto, bool xnet)
+enum skb_drop_reason
+__iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
+ __be16 inner_proto, bool raw_proto, bool xnet)
{
- if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, hdr_len)))
- return -ENOMEM;
+ enum skb_drop_reason reason;
+
+ reason = pskb_may_pull_reason(skb, hdr_len);
+ if (unlikely(reason))
+ return reason;
skb_pull_rcsum(skb, hdr_len);
if (!raw_proto && inner_proto == htons(ETH_P_TEB)) {
struct ethhdr *eh;
- if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN)))
- return -ENOMEM;
+ reason = pskb_may_pull_reason(skb, ETH_HLEN);
+ if (unlikely(reason))
+ return reason;
eh = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
if (likely(eth_proto_is_802_3(eh->h_proto)))
@@ -135,7 +140,10 @@ int __iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff *skb, int hdr_len,
skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, 0);
skb_scrub_packet(skb, xnet);
- return iptunnel_pull_offloads(skb);
+ if (unlikely(iptunnel_pull_offloads(skb)))
+ return SKB_DROP_REASON_NOMEM;
+
+ return SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__iptunnel_pull_header);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 258239a7c53b..0392f6ba862b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static int ip6erspan_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (__iptunnel_pull_header(skb, len,
htons(ETH_P_TEB),
- false, false) < 0)
+ false, false))
return PACKET_REJECT;
if (tunnel->parms.collect_md) {
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-05 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-05 20:14 [PATCH net-next 0/4] vxlan: generalize and refine drop reasons Anton Danilov
2026-10-05 20:14 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] vxlan: rename the drop reasons for use by other tunnels Anton Danilov
2026-10-05 20:14 ` Anton Danilov [this message]
2026-10-05 20:14 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] vxlan: report the drop reason of __iptunnel_pull_header() Anton Danilov
2026-10-05 20:14 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] vxlan: report a circular route as SKB_DROP_REASON_RECURSION_LIMIT Anton Danilov
2026-10-06 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] vxlan: generalize and refine drop reasons Ido Schimmel
2026-10-08 18:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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