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From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Alice Mikityanska <alice.kernel@fastmail.im>,
	 Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
	 David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	 Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,  Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	 Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	 Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>,
	 netdev@vger.kernel.org,  Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>,
	 syzbot+ce13c07d96d04716eaa2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 1/4] net: ipv4: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:35:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.d16fc5b418dd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260822115717.1161782-2-alice.kernel@fastmail.im>

Alice Mikityanska wrote:
> From: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
> 
> This commit bounds cork->base.fragsize to IP_MAX_MTU to avoid a
> possible overflow of UDP length that triggers a WARN in
> udp_set_len_short when setsockopt IP_MTU_DISCOVER is set to
> IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, and a large packet is sent over a netdev with an
> unusually large MTU.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1. Set device MTU bigger than IP_MAX_MTU + 20. cork->base.fragsize will
>    be set to that MTU in ip_setup_cork.
> 2. Set IP_MTU_DISCOVER to IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE. It lets maxnonfragsize be
>    set to device MTU (cork->fragsize) in __ip_append_data, rather than
>    to IP_MAX_MTU.
> 3. Send 65528 bytes of payload (+8 bytes of UDP header, +20 bytes of
>    IPv4 header). Device MTU allows it (it's only one byte bigger than
>    IP_MAX_MTU + IPv4 header, and the device MTU is bigger than that).
> 4. The UDP length in the built packet is 65536, which overflows the
>    16-bit length field and triggers the WARN in udp_set_len_short.
> 
> Note: IP_PMTUDISC_DO with IPv4 is safe, because ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward
> always clamps at IP_MAX_MTU, unlike ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward.
> 
> The Fixes tag points at the first commit where I could reproduce the
> overflow with IPv4 and IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE.
> 
> Fixes: daba287b299e ("ipv4: fix DO and PROBE pmtu mode regarding local fragmentation with UFO/CORK")
> Reported-by: syzbot+ce13c07d96d04716eaa2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a6a966c.86abc875.e5c3d.0054.GAE@google.com/
> Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4.6
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-22 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-22 11:57 [PATCH net v3 0/4] Fix UDP length overflow in edge cases Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 11:57 ` [PATCH net v3 1/4] net: ipv4: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 18:35   ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-08-22 11:57 ` [PATCH net v3 2/4] net: ipv6: " Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 18:39   ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-22 11:57 ` [PATCH net v3 3/4] selftests: net: Test " Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 18:50   ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-25 23:13     ` Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 11:57 ` [PATCH net v3 4/4] net: ipv6: Clamp to IP6_MAX_MTU in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-22 18:41   ` Willem de Bruijn

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