From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>,
Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] selftests: bonding: add test for stacked bond header_parse recursion
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:29:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319202902.GW1753385@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260319035902.6106-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 11:58:56AM +0800, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
> From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
>
> Add a selftest to reproduce the infinite recursion in bond_header_parse()
> when bonds are stacked (bond1 -> bond0 -> gre). When a packet is received
> via AF_PACKET SOCK_DGRAM on the topmost bond, dev_parse_header() calls
> bond_header_parse() which used skb->dev (always the topmost bond) to get
> the bonding struct. This caused it to recurse back into itself
> indefinitely, leading to stack overflow.
>
> Before commit b7405dcf7385 ("bonding: prevent potential infinite loop
> in bond_header_parse()"), the test triggers:
>
> ./bond_stacked_header_parse.sh
>
> [ 71.999481] BUG: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low!
> [ 72.000170] turning off the locking correctness validator.
> [ 72.001029] Please attach the output of /proc/lock_stat to the bug report
> [ 72.002079] depth: 48 max: 48!
> ...
>
> After the fix, everything works fine:
>
> ./bond_stacked_header_parse.sh
> TEST: Stacked bond header_parse does not recurse [ OK ]
>
> Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Fix CONFIG_NET_IPGRE sorting order in config
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Use tcpdump + scapy instead of custom Python script
> - Remove unnecessary modprobe and skip checks
> - Add CONFIG_NET_IPGRE to config dependencies
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260316165946.46e9f8f7@kernel.org/T/#t
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CANn89iK2EURqsjtd=OVP4awYTJHGcR-UU-V9WovpWR1Z3f03oQ@mail.gmail.com/
> ---
> .../selftests/drivers/net/bonding/Makefile | 1 +
> .../net/bonding/bond_stacked_header_parse.sh | 69 +++++++++++++++++++
Please take some time to run shellcheck over bond_stacked_header_parse.sh
and make it shellcheck clean.
I suggest that can be achieved by adding the following somewhere:
# shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2329
--
pw-bot: changes-requested
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2026-03-19 3:58 [PATCH net-next v3] selftests: bonding: add test for stacked bond header_parse recursion Jiayuan Chen
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