From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
syzbot+ebdb22d461c904fc3cb2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>,
Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] tcp: ipv6: clamp default adverting MSS to avoid GSO_BY_FRAGS (0xFFFF)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:25:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260612162517.83394-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
When MTU is large, ip6_default_advmss() can return IPV6_MAXPLEN (65535).
This is interpreted by TCP as mss_clamp, allowing the MSS to reach 65535.
However, 0xFFFF is also used as a magic value GSO_BY_FRAGS in the kernel.
If a TCP packet with gso_size=0xFFFF is passed to skb_segment(), it will
be mistakenly treated as GSO_BY_FRAGS, leading to a NULL pointer
dereference because local TCP packets do not use frag_list.
Fix this by returning min(IPV6_MAXPLEN, GSO_BY_FRAGS - 1) (65534) from
ip6_default_advmss() when MTU is large.
Also update the stale comment in ip6_default_advmss() which suggested
that IPV6_MAXPLEN is returned to mean "any MSS".
Fixes: 3953c46c3ac7 ("sk_buff: allow segmenting based on frag sizes")
Reported-by: syzbot+ebdb22d461c904fc3cb2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a2c3193.8812e0fc.3c3fa4.0001.GAE@google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 636f0120d7e38d6d7f07b43ee6673c56e77471aa..3c97ba01297aa85da64f797096bc35abb0a00ac8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -3275,11 +3275,11 @@ static unsigned int ip6_default_advmss(const struct dst_entry *dst)
/*
* Maximal non-jumbo IPv6 payload is IPV6_MAXPLEN and
* corresponding MSS is IPV6_MAXPLEN - tcp_header_size.
- * IPV6_MAXPLEN is also valid and means: "any MSS,
- * rely only on pmtu discovery"
+ * Limit the default MSS to GSO_BY_FRAGS - 1 to avoid
+ * collision with the GSO_BY_FRAGS magic value (0xFFFF).
*/
if (mtu > IPV6_MAXPLEN - sizeof(struct tcphdr))
- mtu = IPV6_MAXPLEN;
+ mtu = min_t(unsigned int, IPV6_MAXPLEN, GSO_BY_FRAGS - 1);
return mtu;
}
--
2.54.0.1136.gdb2ca164c4-goog
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