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* [PATCH] gtp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
@ 2026-04-17  5:54 David Carlier
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From: David Carlier @ 2026-04-17  5:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pablo Neira Ayuso, Harald Welte, Andrew Lunn, Eric Dumazet,
	Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni
  Cc: Weiming Shi, osmocom-net-gprs, netdev, linux-kernel,
	David Carlier, stable

gtp_genl_send_echo_req() runs as a generic netlink doit handler in
process context with BH not disabled. It calls udp_tunnel_xmit_skb(),
which eventually invokes iptunnel_xmit() — that uses __this_cpu_inc/dec
on softnet_data.xmit.recursion to track the tunnel xmit recursion level.

Without local_bh_disable(), the task may migrate between
dev_xmit_recursion_inc() and dev_xmit_recursion_dec(), breaking the
per-CPU counter pairing. The result is stale or negative recursion
levels that can later produce false-positive
SKB_DROP_REASON_RECURSION_LIMIT drops on either CPU.

The other udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() call sites in gtp.c are unaffected:
the data path runs under ndo_start_xmit and the echo response handlers
run from the UDP encap rx softirq, both with BH already disabled.

Fix it by disabling BH around the udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() call, mirroring
commit 2cd7e6971fc2 ("sctp: disable BH before calling
udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()").

Fixes: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/gtp.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/gtp.c b/drivers/net/gtp.c
index 70b9e58b9b78..5150f2e4f66b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gtp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gtp.c
@@ -2400,6 +2400,7 @@ static int gtp_genl_send_echo_req(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
+	local_bh_disable();
 	udp_tunnel_xmit_skb(rt, sk, skb_to_send,
 			    fl4.saddr, fl4.daddr,
 			    inet_dscp_to_dsfield(fl4.flowi4_dscp),
@@ -2409,6 +2410,7 @@ static int gtp_genl_send_echo_req(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 			    !net_eq(sock_net(sk),
 				    dev_net(gtp->dev)),
 			    false, 0);
+	local_bh_enable();
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.53.0


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