From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: syjcnss@gmail.com
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: pktgen: fix out-of-bounds write in pktgen_finalize_skb()
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 14:25:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803212537.2171760-1-kuba@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729031252.54476-1-syjcnss@gmail.com>
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--- Patch [1]: [PATCH net] net: pktgen: fix out-of-bounds write in pktgen_finalize_skb() ---
commit 482871be2b4cb4112bd717673de3a4fe3ab0b9c3
Author: Yuejie Shi <syjcnss@gmail.com>
net: pktgen: fix out-of-bounds write in pktgen_finalize_skb()
The patch changes the per-fragment length in pktgen_finalize_skb() from a
truncating division to DIV_ROUND_UP(), and adds an i < frags bound to the
fragment fill loop, so the loop can no longer write past
skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[]. The reported KASAN overflow with pkt_size in
[69675, 69689] and frags 17 does look fixed by this.
> diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
> index ee64f3012321..60dbe60005eb 100644
> --- a/net/core/pktgen.c
> +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
> @@ -2843,8 +2843,8 @@ static void pktgen_finalize_skb(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> }
>
> i = 0;
> - frag_len = min_t(int, datalen / frags, PAGE_SIZE);
> - while (datalen > 0) {
> + frag_len = min_t(int, DIV_ROUND_UP(datalen, frags), PAGE_SIZE);
> + while (datalen > 0 && i < frags) {
[Severity: Medium]
[Finding: main-2-0]
[Sources: opus-5]
With frag_len rounded up, can the partition now run out of bytes before
i reaches frags - 1, so that the else branch over-charges the last
fragment?
frag_len is computed once and never re-clamped against the bytes still
outstanding, and only the i == (frags - 1) branch uses min(datalen,
PAGE_SIZE):
/*last fragment, fill rest of data*/
if (i == (frags - 1))
skb_frag_fill_page_desc(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i],
pkt_dev->page, 0,
min(datalen, PAGE_SIZE));
else
skb_frag_fill_page_desc(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i],
pkt_dev->page, 0, frag_len);
datalen -= skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]);
skb->len += skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]);
skb->data_len += skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]);
Taking pkt_size 77 with frags 17, which the pkt_size setter accepts since
it only clamps against 14 + 20 + 8:
fill_packet_ipv4(): datalen = 77 - 42 = 35
pktgen_finalize_skb(): datalen -= sizeof(*pgh) -> 19
frag_len = DIV_ROUND_UP(19, 17) = 2
Iterations i = 0..8 consume 18 bytes and leave 1 byte. At i == 9 the
i == (frags - 1) test is false (frags - 1 is 16), so the else branch
charges the full frag_len of 2:
datalen becomes -1
skb->len and skb->data_len are 1 byte larger than requested
nr_frags ends at 10 instead of the requested 17
Another example is datalen 71 with frags 17: frag_len is 5, 15 iterations
consume 75 bytes, overshooting by 4, and nr_frags ends at 15. The
overshoot is bounded by frag_len - 1, so at most 16 bytes with
MAX_SKB_FRAGS == 17, and fragment sizes still never exceed PAGE_SIZE, so
this is a length-accounting problem rather than a memory-safety one.
Does the inflated skb->len leave the frame inconsistent with the L3/L4
headers? fill_packet_ipv4() writes the lengths from the same datalen it
hands to pktgen_finalize_skb():
udph->len = htons(datalen + 8); /* DATA + udphdr */
...
iplen = 20 + 8 + datalen;
iph->tot_len = htons(iplen);
fill_packet_ipv6() follows the same pattern. pktgen_xmit() also does
pkt_dev->last_pkt_size = pkt_dev->skb->len, which feeds
pkt_dev->tx_bytes, so the reported byte counts would drift from the
configured pkt_size too.
Before this change these same inputs partitioned exactly: with datalen 19
and frags 17 the truncated frag_len was 1, giving 16 one-byte fragments
plus a last fragment of 3, and the i == (frags - 1) branch was always
reached.
Would using min(datalen, frag_len) in the else branch, or treating
datalen <= frag_len as the last fragment, keep the sum equal to datalen
in these cases?
The commit message says:
the fragments now cover datalen exactly and the loop always terminates
on the last one. As a side effect pktgen stops emitting zero-length
fragments when datalen < frags.
Should this also mention that for small datalen with many fragments the
loop terminates before the last fragment, and that fewer fragments than
requested are produced?
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2026-07-29 3:12 [PATCH net] net: pktgen: fix out-of-bounds write in pktgen_finalize_skb() Yuejie Shi
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