[PATCH net] ipv4: ip_gre: make ipgre_header() robust

[PATCH net] ipv4: ip_gre: make ipgre_header() robust

[Eric Dumazet]

Analog to commit db5b4e39c4e6 ("ip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust")

Over the years, syzbot found many ways to crash the kernel
in ipgre_header() [1].

This involves team or bonding drivers ability to dynamically
change their dev->needed_headroom and/or dev->hard_header_len

In this particular crash mld_newpack() allocated an skb
with a too small reserve/headroom, and by the time mld_sendpack()
was called, syzbot managed to attach an ipgre device.

[1]
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff89ea3cb7 len:2030915468 put:2030915372 head:ffff888058b43000 data:ffff887fdfa6e194 tail:0x120 end:0x6c0 dev:team0
 kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:213 !
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1322 Comm: kworker/1:9 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
 RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x157/0x160 net/core/skbuff.c:213
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  skb_under_panic net/core/skbuff.c:223 [inline]
  skb_push+0xc3/0xe0 net/core/skbuff.c:2641
  ipgre_header+0x67/0x290 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:897
  dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3436 [inline]
  neigh_connected_output+0x286/0x460 net/core/neighbour.c:1618
  NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
  ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
  NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
  mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855
  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]
  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693
  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
  process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
  worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
  kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Fixes: c54419321455 ("GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.")
Reported-by: syzbot+7c134e1c3aa3283790b9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg1147302.html
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index 8178c44a3cdd48c5a737e9f4e5696ad8f9fbd4cc..e13244729ad8d5b1c2b9c483d25bff0e438134b5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -891,10 +891,17 @@ static int ipgre_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 			const void *daddr, const void *saddr, unsigned int len)
 {
 	struct ip_tunnel *t = netdev_priv(dev);
-	struct iphdr *iph;
 	struct gre_base_hdr *greh;
+	struct iphdr *iph;
+	int needed;
+
+	needed = t->hlen + sizeof(*iph);
+	if (skb_headroom(skb) < needed &&
+	    pskb_expand_head(skb, HH_DATA_ALIGN(needed - skb_headroom(skb)),
+			     0, GFP_ATOMIC))
+		return -needed;
 
-	iph = skb_push(skb, t->hlen + sizeof(*iph));
+	iph = skb_push(skb, needed);
 	greh = (struct gre_base_hdr *)(iph+1);
 	greh->flags = gre_tnl_flags_to_gre_flags(t->parms.o_flags);
 	greh->protocol = htons(type);
-- 
2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog

Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: ip_gre: make ipgre_header() robust

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Thu,  8 Jan 2026 19:02:14 +0000 you wrote:
> Analog to commit db5b4e39c4e6 ("ip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust")
> 
> Over the years, syzbot found many ways to crash the kernel
> in ipgre_header() [1].
> 
> This involves team or bonding drivers ability to dynamically
> change their dev->needed_headroom and/or dev->hard_header_len
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] ipv4: ip_gre: make ipgre_header() robust
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/e67c577d8989

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