From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
dev@openvswitch.org,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
Ren Wei <weir@nebusec.ai>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 4/5] openvswitch: use eth_type_trans_careful() in internal_dev_recv()
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:04:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.3177102d5612b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261028122703.2093730-5-edumazet@kernel.org>
Eric Dumazet wrote:
> OVS actions like pop_eth followed by pop_mpls(ETH_P_TEB) or pop_nsh
> can expose an inner Ethernet header which is not in the linear part
> of the skb. Output to an internal port then crashes in eth_type_trans():
>
> flow: in_port(0),eth(),eth_type(0x8847),mpls(lse=0x00010140)
> actions: pop_eth,pop_mpls(0x6558),0
> # AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW on dp0: eth / mpls / eth / 4096 bytes of payload
>
> kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2839!
> RIP: 0010:eth_type_trans (include/linux/etherdevice.h:635 net/ethernet/eth.c:163)
> Call Trace:
> internal_dev_recv (net/openvswitch/vport-internal_dev.c:202) openvswitch
> do_execute_actions (net/openvswitch/actions.c:1296) openvswitch
> ovs_execute_actions (net/openvswitch/actions.c:1606) openvswitch
> ovs_dp_process_packet (net/openvswitch/datapath.c:310) openvswitch
> ovs_vport_receive (net/openvswitch/vport.c:448) openvswitch
> internal_dev_xmit (net/openvswitch/vport-internal_dev.c:42) openvswitch
> dev_hard_start_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:5455 include/linux/netdevice.h:5464 net/core/dev.c:4057 net/core/dev.c:4073)
> __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:5066)
> packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3157 net/packet/af_packet.c:3189)
>
> Use eth_type_trans_careful(), and drop the packet if the Ethernet
> header can not be pulled. This covers all OVS actions at the consumer,
> instead of fixing each producer.
>
> Fixes: b2d0f5d5dc53 ("openvswitch: enable NSH support")
> Fixes: f66b53fdbb22 ("openvswitch: New MPLS actions for layer 2 tunnelling")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
> Tested-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-28 12:26 [PATCH net v2 0/5] net: fix eth_type_trans() crashes on skbs coming from the stack Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 12:26 ` [PATCH net v2 1/5] net: add eth_type_trans_careful() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 12:27 ` [PATCH net v2 2/5] loopback: use eth_type_trans_careful() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 18:48 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-28 12:27 ` [PATCH net v2 3/5] net: use eth_type_trans_careful() in __dev_forward_skb2() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 19:03 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-28 12:27 ` [PATCH net v2 4/5] openvswitch: use eth_type_trans_careful() in internal_dev_recv() Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 19:04 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-10-28 12:27 ` [PATCH net v2 5/5] net/sched: act_ife: do not consume the inner header on egress Eric Dumazet
2026-10-28 17:34 ` [PATCH net v2 0/5] net: fix eth_type_trans() crashes on skbs coming from the stack Alexei Starovoitov
2026-10-28 19:31 ` Daniel Borkmann
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