From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, jv@jvosburgh.net,
hawk@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, emil@etsalapatis.com,
liuhangbin@gmail.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com,
aleksander.lobakin@intel.com, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: drop GSO skbs instead of handing them to XDP
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:36:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928223648.2739371-6-kuba@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928223648.2739371-1-kuba@kernel.org>
skb BPF paths have a number of helpers to fix up the GSO
state after packet modifications. XDP has no such support.
"Real" / driver XDP runs before the SW GRO, and drivers generally
disable HW-GRO when XDP is attached (with the exception of IDPF,
story for another time), so this is not an issue. We also try
to disable HW-GRO and elide SW GRO when generic XDP prog is
attached. These precautions are not 100% today, and IMHO fixing
that is impossible. Let's explicitly drop GSO skbs on input to XDP.
First example how things can go sideways today - bonding.
We only disable & elide GRO on the device to which program is
attached. Nothing reaches the devices below it, and for a stacked
device that is where the packets come from:
ip link set dev bond0 xdpgeneric obj prog.o sec xdp
leaves every slave with GRO on and no xdp_prog of its own, so
netif_elide_gro() lets them coalesce as usual. bond_handle_frame()
then returns RX_HANDLER_ANOTHER, __netif_receive_skb_core() loops back
round to another_round with skb->dev switched to the bond, and the
program gets handed a packet which was never on the wire. HW-GRO is
the same story - while netif_disable_lro() walks the lower devices,
its HW-GRO counterpart never did (this is largely the point of
distinguishing between LRO and HW-GRO).
Example two - veth. Generic XDP on a veth gets there by a different route.
veth_xdp_set() takes NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE away from the peer so that
no GSO skb is ever built for a device running XDP, but generic XDP does
not go through ndo_bpf, so none of that happens.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
include/net/xdp.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
drivers/net/veth.c | 3 +++
net/core/dev.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/xdp.h b/include/net/xdp.h
index aa742f413c35..5a234aab1e1c 100644
--- a/include/net/xdp.h
+++ b/include/net/xdp.h
@@ -291,6 +291,22 @@ static inline bool xdp_buff_add_frag(struct xdp_buff *xdp, netmem_ref netmem,
return true;
}
+/**
+ * xdp_skb_feature_check() - can this skb be handed to an XDP program?
+ * @skb: skb about to be turned into an xdp_buff
+ *
+ * Return: true if the skb must not reach the program and has to be dropped.
+ */
+static inline bool xdp_skb_feature_check(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ if (likely(!skb_is_gso(skb)))
+ return false;
+
+ net_warn_ratelimited("%s: dropping coalesced packet before XDP, receive offloads are still on\n",
+ skb->dev->name);
+ return true;
+}
+
struct xdp_frame {
void *data;
u32 len;
diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 71227d0389aa..5635037e3b60 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -756,6 +756,9 @@ static int veth_convert_skb_to_xdp_buff(struct veth_rq *rq,
struct sk_buff *skb = *pskb;
u32 frame_sz;
+ if (unlikely(xdp_skb_feature_check(skb)))
+ goto drop;
+
if (skb_shared(skb) || skb_head_is_locked(skb) ||
skb_is_nonlinear(skb) ||
skb_headroom(skb) < XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM) {
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 096d1dedebfd..fbeb3df4c11f 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
#include <linux/once_lite.h>
#include <net/netdev_lock.h>
#include <net/netdev_rx_queue.h>
+#include <net/xdp.h>
#include <net/page_pool/types.h>
#include <net/page_pool/helpers.h>
#include <net/page_pool/memory_provider.h>
@@ -5516,6 +5517,9 @@ u32 bpf_prog_run_generic_xdp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct xdp_buff *xdp,
u32 metalen, act;
int off;
+ if (unlikely(xdp_skb_feature_check(skb)))
+ return XDP_DROP;
+
/* The XDP program wants to see the packet starting at the MAC
* header.
*/
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-28 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 22:36 [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: fix a couple of problems with XDP and bonding Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-28 22:36 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: record XDP programs propagated to lower devices Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-29 22:36 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-29 23:32 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-30 4:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-28 22:36 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] netdevsim: add ndo_xdp_xmit Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-29 23:32 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-30 4:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-28 22:36 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] selftests: drv-net: check tcp-data-split against an already attached XDP Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-29 23:32 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-30 4:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-28 22:36 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] selftests/bpf: check XDP attach on a nested bond slave Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-29 22:37 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-29 23:32 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-30 4:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-28 22:36 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-09-29 22:37 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: drop GSO skbs instead of handing them to XDP sashiko-bot
2026-09-29 23:33 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-30 4:38 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
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