From: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, kerneljasonxing@gmail.com,
kuniyu@google.com, mhal@rbox.co, jiayuan.chen@linux.dev,
steffen.klassert@secunet.com, vakzz@zellic.io,
ben@decadent.org.uk, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
dsahern@kernel.org, sultan@kerneltoast.com, sd@queasysnail.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, imv4bel@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH net v3] net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 20:57:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <agW4vC0r8QOUKtRT@v4bel> (raw)
Three frag-transfer helpers (__pskb_copy_fclone(), skb_try_coalesce(),
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_try_coalesce() and skb_shift() move frag
descriptors directly and leave 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 <local>' 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.
Fixes: cef401de7be8 ("net: fix possible wrong checksum generation")
Fixes: f4c50a4034e6 ("xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags")
Reported-by: William Bowling <vakzz@zellic.io>
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Include the skb_gro_receive() audit patch suggested by Sultan
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agToIEDI4TaTNLRb@v4bel/
Changes in v2:
- Also propagate SHARED_FRAG in skb_try_coalesce() and skb_shift()
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agRfuVOeMI5pbHhY@v4bel/
---
net/core/gro.c | 4 ++++
net/core/skbuff.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/gro.c b/net/core/gro.c
index 31d21de5b15a..9f8960789b2c 100644
--- a/net/core/gro.c
+++ b/net/core/gro.c
@@ -213,10 +213,12 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
p->data_len += len;
p->truesize += delta_truesize;
p->len += len;
+ skb_shinfo(p)->flags |= skbinfo->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
if (lp != p) {
lp->data_len += len;
lp->truesize += delta_truesize;
lp->len += len;
+ skb_shinfo(lp)->flags |= skbinfo->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
}
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow = 1;
return 0;
@@ -244,6 +246,8 @@ int skb_gro_receive_list(struct sk_buff *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
p->truesize += skb->truesize;
p->len += skb->len;
+ skb_shinfo(p)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
+
NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow = 1;
return 0;
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 7dad68e3b518..7cd388504297 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -2248,6 +2248,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__pskb_copy_fclone(struct sk_buff *skb, int headroom,
skb_frag_ref(skb, i);
}
skb_shinfo(n)->nr_frags = i;
+ skb_shinfo(n)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
}
if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
@@ -4349,6 +4350,8 @@ int skb_shift(struct sk_buff *tgt, struct sk_buff *skb, int shiftlen)
tgt->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
+ skb_shinfo(tgt)->flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
+
skb_len_add(skb, -shiftlen);
skb_len_add(tgt, shiftlen);
@@ -6200,6 +6203,8 @@ bool skb_try_coalesce(struct sk_buff *to, struct sk_buff *from,
from_shinfo->frags,
from_shinfo->nr_frags * sizeof(skb_frag_t));
to_shinfo->nr_frags += from_shinfo->nr_frags;
+ if (from_shinfo->nr_frags)
+ to_shinfo->flags |= from_shinfo->flags & SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG;
if (!skb_cloned(from))
from_shinfo->nr_frags = 0;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-14 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-14 11:57 Hyunwoo Kim [this message]
2026-05-14 18:49 ` [PATCH net v3] net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers Sabrina Dubroca
2026-05-14 21:52 ` Hyunwoo Kim
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