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From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com>,
	 Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com>,
	 Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	 netdev@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
	 Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>,
	 stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net] net/packet: guard the ll header push in packet_rcv_spkt()
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:58:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.24f9b153d245a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928113108.2127215-1-quchaosheng000406@163.com>

Quchaosheng wrote:
> packet_rcv_spkt() restores the link layer header with
> 
> 	skb_push(skb, skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb));
> 
> That subtraction is only meaningful when the device actually has a link
> layer header.  packet_rcv() and tpacket_rcv() both wrap it in
> dev_has_header(), which is also the predicate the block comment at the
> top of the file states the restore in terms of; packet_rcv_spkt() does
> not.  commit d549699048b4 ("net/packet: fix packet receive on L3
> devices without visible hard header") introduced the helper and changed
> the two call sites, and this one stayed behind.
> 
> A device without a visible ll header can leave skb->mac_header at the
> 0xFFFF sentinel that __alloc_skb() initialises it to.  A CAN skb does:
> init_can_skb() sets pkt_type and ip_summed but does not reset the
> headers, and commit 9f10374bb024 ("can: remove private CAN skb
> headroom infrastructure") dropped the skb_reset_*_header() calls that
> used to be there.  skb_mac_header() is then 0xFFFF, the length becomes
> a large negative number and skb_push() reports it through
> skb_under_panic() -- from softirq context, so it is a full system panic
> even with panic_on_oops=0:
> 
>   skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8bd21bc1 len:-65455 put:-65471 head:... data:... tail:0x50 end:0x180 dev:can0
>   kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!
>   RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x50/0x60
>   Call Trace:
>    <IRQ>
>    skb_push+0x38/0x40
>    packet_rcv_spkt+0xe1/0x170
>    __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x7e8/0xd30
>    ...
>   Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
> 
> The socket type is reachable: packet_create() accepts SOCK_PACKET
> alongside SOCK_RAW and SOCK_DGRAM behind the same CAP_NET_RAW check,
> and neither the socket length nor a capability check keeps it away
> from a CAN interface.
> 
> The missing skb_reset_*_header() calls in init_can_skb() are a
> regression in their own right and are being fixed separately, but a
> packet socket should not turn a link layer that did not initialise its
> mac header into a kernel panic.  Guard the push the way the other two
> receive paths do.
> 
> Tested on v7.3-rc5 under QEMU with a slcan device on a pty, which is
> the driver RX path: vcan does not reproduce it, because can_send()
> resets the headers on the way out.  One SOCK_PACKET socket bound to
> can0 and one frame written into the line discipline panics an
> unpatched kernel with the trace above; the same image with this patch
> prints no panic and powers off normally.  Both kernels are this tree,
> defconfig plus CONFIG_CAN_SLCAN=y, differing only in this hunk.
> 
> Fixes: d549699048b4 ("net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices without visible hard header")
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-29 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-28 11:31 [PATCH v3 net] net/packet: guard the ll header push in packet_rcv_spkt() Quchaosheng
2026-09-28 22:55 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-29  7:36   ` Quchaosheng
2026-09-29 14:58     ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-09-29 14:58 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-09-30 23:32 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-01  1:01   ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-02  1:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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