* [PATCH 6.12 1/2] net: ipv6: Make udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() void
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@ 2026-06-25 8:24 ` Alexander Martyniuk
2026-06-25 8:24 ` [PATCH 6.12 2/2] sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() Alexander Martyniuk
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From: Alexander Martyniuk @ 2026-06-25 8:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable, gregkh
Cc: Alexander Martyniuk, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet,
Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, David Ahern,
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long, Jon Maloy, Ying Xue, netdev,
linux-kernel, linux-sctp, tipc-discussion, Petr Machata,
Ido Schimmel, Nikolay Aleksandrov
From: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
commit 6a7d88ca15f73c5c570c372238f71d63da1fda55 upstream.
The function always returns zero, thus the return value does not carry any
signal. Just make it void.
Most callers already ignore the return value. However:
- Refold arguments of the call from sctp_v6_xmit() so that they fit into
the 80-column limit.
- tipc_udp_xmit() initializes err from the return value, but that should
already be always zero at that point. So there's no practical change, but
elision of the assignment prompts a couple more tweaks to clean up the
function.
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7facacf9d8ca3ca9391a4aee88160913671b868d.1750113335.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@gmail.com>
---
include/net/udp_tunnel.h | 14 +++++++-------
net/ipv6/ip6_udp_tunnel.c | 15 +++++++--------
net/sctp/ipv6.c | 7 ++++---
net/tipc/udp_media.c | 10 +++++-----
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/udp_tunnel.h b/include/net/udp_tunnel.h
index 6e2c5c77031f..8ed36ec520d7 100644
--- a/include/net/udp_tunnel.h
+++ b/include/net/udp_tunnel.h
@@ -152,13 +152,13 @@ void udp_tunnel_xmit_skb(struct rtable *rt, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb
__be16 df, __be16 src_port, __be16 dst_port,
bool xnet, bool nocheck);
-int udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(struct dst_entry *dst, struct sock *sk,
- struct sk_buff *skb,
- struct net_device *dev,
- const struct in6_addr *saddr,
- const struct in6_addr *daddr,
- __u8 prio, __u8 ttl, __be32 label,
- __be16 src_port, __be16 dst_port, bool nocheck);
+void udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(struct dst_entry *dst, struct sock *sk,
+ struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *dev,
+ const struct in6_addr *saddr,
+ const struct in6_addr *daddr,
+ __u8 prio, __u8 ttl, __be32 label,
+ __be16 src_port, __be16 dst_port, bool nocheck);
void udp_tunnel_sock_release(struct socket *sock);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_udp_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_udp_tunnel.c
index 2acf1bb93fc0..f22eff2ba77c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_udp_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_udp_tunnel.c
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ int udp_sock_create6(struct net *net, struct udp_port_cfg *cfg,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(udp_sock_create6);
-int udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(struct dst_entry *dst, struct sock *sk,
- struct sk_buff *skb,
- struct net_device *dev,
- const struct in6_addr *saddr,
- const struct in6_addr *daddr,
- __u8 prio, __u8 ttl, __be32 label,
- __be16 src_port, __be16 dst_port, bool nocheck)
+void udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(struct dst_entry *dst, struct sock *sk,
+ struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *dev,
+ const struct in6_addr *saddr,
+ const struct in6_addr *daddr,
+ __u8 prio, __u8 ttl, __be32 label,
+ __be16 src_port, __be16 dst_port, bool nocheck)
{
struct udphdr *uh;
struct ipv6hdr *ip6h;
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ int udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(struct dst_entry *dst, struct sock *sk,
ip6h->saddr = *saddr;
ip6tunnel_xmit(sk, skb, dev);
- return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb);
diff --git a/net/sctp/ipv6.c b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
index 9f835e674c59..b4c321bad033 100644
--- a/net/sctp/ipv6.c
+++ b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
@@ -261,9 +261,10 @@ static int sctp_v6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sctp_transport *t)
skb_set_inner_ipproto(skb, IPPROTO_SCTP);
label = ip6_make_flowlabel(sock_net(sk), skb, fl6->flowlabel, true, fl6);
- return udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(dst, sk, skb, NULL, &fl6->saddr,
- &fl6->daddr, tclass, ip6_dst_hoplimit(dst),
- label, sctp_sk(sk)->udp_port, t->encap_port, false);
+ udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(dst, sk, skb, NULL, &fl6->saddr, &fl6->daddr,
+ tclass, ip6_dst_hoplimit(dst), label,
+ sctp_sk(sk)->udp_port, t->encap_port, false);
+ return 0;
}
/* Returns the dst cache entry for the given source and destination ip
diff --git a/net/tipc/udp_media.c b/net/tipc/udp_media.c
index 258d6aa4f21a..1b8d6bbf8a8e 100644
--- a/net/tipc/udp_media.c
+++ b/net/tipc/udp_media.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static int tipc_udp_xmit(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct udp_media_addr *dst, struct dst_cache *cache)
{
struct dst_entry *ndst;
- int ttl, err = 0;
+ int ttl, err;
local_bh_disable();
ndst = dst_cache_get(cache);
@@ -217,13 +217,13 @@ static int tipc_udp_xmit(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
dst_cache_set_ip6(cache, ndst, &fl6.saddr);
}
ttl = ip6_dst_hoplimit(ndst);
- err = udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(ndst, ub->ubsock->sk, skb, NULL,
- &src->ipv6, &dst->ipv6, 0, ttl, 0,
- src->port, dst->port, false);
+ udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(ndst, ub->ubsock->sk, skb, NULL,
+ &src->ipv6, &dst->ipv6, 0, ttl, 0,
+ src->port, dst->port, false);
#endif
}
local_bh_enable();
- return err;
+ return 0;
tx_error:
local_bh_enable();
--
2.43.0
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2026-06-25 8:24 ` [PATCH 6.12 1/2] net: ipv6: Make udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() void Alexander Martyniuk
@ 2026-06-25 8:24 ` Alexander Martyniuk
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From: Alexander Martyniuk @ 2026-06-25 8:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable, gregkh
Cc: Alexander Martyniuk, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long,
David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
Simon Horman, Weiming Shi, linux-sctp, netdev, linux-kernel
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
commit 2cd7e6971fc2787408ceef17906ea152791448cf upstream.
udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() / udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() are expected to run with
BH disabled. After commit 6f1a9140ecda ("add xmit recursion limit to
tunnel xmit functions"), on the path:
udp(6)_tunnel_xmit_skb() -> ip(6)tunnel_xmit()
dev_xmit_recursion_inc()/dec() must stay balanced on the same CPU.
Without local_bh_disable(), the context may move between CPUs, which can
break the inc/dec pairing. This may lead to incorrect recursion level
detection and cause packets to be dropped in ip(6)_tunnel_xmit() or
__dev_queue_xmit().
Fix it by disabling BH around both IPv4 and IPv6 SCTP UDP xmit paths.
In my testing, after enabling the SCTP over UDP:
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec ha iperf3 -s
- without this patch:
# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.2 MBytes 31.2 Mbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.1 MBytes 31.1 Mbits/sec receiver
- with this patch:
# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec receiver
Fixes: 6f1a9140ecda ("net: add xmit recursion limit to tunnel xmit functions")
Fixes: 046c052b475e ("sctp: enable udp tunneling socks")
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c874a8548221dcd56ff03c65ba75a74e6cf99119.1776017727.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@gmail.com>
---
net/sctp/ipv6.c | 2 ++
net/sctp/protocol.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/sctp/ipv6.c b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
index b4c321bad033..b45cc51dfc35 100644
--- a/net/sctp/ipv6.c
+++ b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
@@ -261,9 +261,11 @@ static int sctp_v6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sctp_transport *t)
skb_set_inner_ipproto(skb, IPPROTO_SCTP);
label = ip6_make_flowlabel(sock_net(sk), skb, fl6->flowlabel, true, fl6);
+ local_bh_disable();
udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb(dst, sk, skb, NULL, &fl6->saddr, &fl6->daddr,
tclass, ip6_dst_hoplimit(dst), label,
sctp_sk(sk)->udp_port, t->encap_port, false);
+ local_bh_enable();
return 0;
}
diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
index 39ca5403d4d7..6ea15361088b 100644
--- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
@@ -1086,9 +1086,11 @@ static inline int sctp_v4_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sctp_transport *t)
skb_reset_inner_mac_header(skb);
skb_reset_inner_transport_header(skb);
skb_set_inner_ipproto(skb, IPPROTO_SCTP);
+ local_bh_disable();
udp_tunnel_xmit_skb(dst_rtable(dst), sk, skb, fl4->saddr,
fl4->daddr, dscp, ip4_dst_hoplimit(dst), df,
sctp_sk(sk)->udp_port, t->encap_port, false, false);
+ local_bh_enable();
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
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