From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Jiayuan Chen" <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
Antonius <antonius@bluedragonsec.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Jason Xing" <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>,
"Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@google.com>,
"Michal Luczaj" <mhal@rbox.co>,
"Mina Almasry" <almasrymina@google.com>,
"Eric Biggers" <ebiggers@google.com>,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"Soheil Hassas Yeganeh" <soheil@google.com>,
"Alexander Duyck" <alexanderduyck@fb.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v1] net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 11:31:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260402033138.388574-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE is intentionally set to a non-power-of-2
value (e.g. 704 on x86_64) to avoid collisions with generic kmalloc
bucket sizes. This ensures that skb_kfree_head() can reliably use
skb_end_offset to distinguish skb heads allocated from
skb_small_head_cache vs. generic kmalloc caches.
However, when KFENCE is enabled, kfence_ksize() returns the exact
requested allocation size instead of the slab bucket size. If a caller
(e.g. bpf_test_init) allocates skb head data via kzalloc() and the
requested size happens to equal SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE, then
slab_build_skb() → ksize() returns that exact value. After subtracting
skb_shared_info overhead, skb_end_offset ends up matching
SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM, causing skb_kfree_head() to incorrectly free
the object to skb_small_head_cache instead of back to the original
kmalloc cache, resulting in a slab cross-cache free:
kmem_cache_free(skbuff_small_head): Wrong slab cache. Expected
skbuff_small_head but got kmalloc-1k
Fix this by adding an is_kfence_address() check in skb_kfree_head().
When the head is a KFENCE object, we skip the kmem_cache_free() path
and fall through to kfree(), which correctly handles KFENCE objects
via kfence_free(). The check compiles away when CONFIG_KFENCE is
disabled.
Fixes: bf9f1baa279f ("net: add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head")
Reported-by: Antonius <antonius@bluedragonsec.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8a0jxC5L5N7hq-DT2_NhUyjBxrPocoiDazzsBk4TGgT1r4-A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 0e217041958a..87cecd40381b 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
#include <linux/user_namespace.h>
#include <linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h>
#include <linux/textsearch.h>
+#include <linux/kfence.h>
#include "dev.h"
#include "devmem.h"
@@ -1083,7 +1084,8 @@ static int skb_pp_frag_ref(struct sk_buff *skb)
static void skb_kfree_head(void *head, unsigned int end_offset)
{
- if (end_offset == SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM)
+ if (end_offset == SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM &&
+ !is_kfence_address(head))
kmem_cache_free(net_hotdata.skb_small_head_cache, head);
else
kfree(head);
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-02 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-02 3:31 Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-04-02 4:01 ` [PATCH net v1] net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head Eric Dumazet
2026-04-02 4:15 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-04-02 8:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-04-02 8:38 ` Jiayuan Chen
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