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From: "Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: 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>
Cc: Thomas Karlsson <thomas.karlsson@paneda.se>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com,
	tgopinath@linux.microsoft.com, kys@microsoft.com,
	"Xiang Mei (Microsoft)" <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net] macvlan: cap IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN to bound broadcast backlog
Date: Mon,  6 Jul 2026 21:25:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260706212556.3199234-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)

The netlink policy for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN accepts any u32, and the
value becomes port->bc_queue_len_used, the only cap on how many skbs
macvlan_broadcast_enqueue() may queue on port->bc_queue. An unprivileged
user owning a user+net namespace (CAP_NET_ADMIN is checked only against
the target netns) can set it to 0xffffffff, so the backlog check never
trips and every broadcast frame is skb_clone()'d with GFP_ATOMIC and
queued. When RX softirq outpaces the bc_work drain (e.g. many ALLMULTI
macvlans under a broadcast flood), the queue grows unbounded and
OOMs/panics the host.

Bound the value with NLA_POLICY_MAX() at 4096, 4x the default of 1000.
This keeps headroom above the default while capping the backlog; values
above the cap are now rejected with -ERANGE at netlink parse time.

  Out of memory: Killed process 141 (su) UID:0
  Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory
  Call Trace:
   vpanic (kernel/panic.c:650)
   panic (kernel/panic.c:787)
   out_of_memory (mm/oom_kill.c:1166)
   __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof (mm/page_alloc.c:4914)
   alloc_pages_mpol (mm/mempolicy.c:2490)
   folio_alloc_noprof (mm/mempolicy.c:2591)
   filemap_fault (mm/filemap.c:3565)

Fixes: d4bff72c8401 ("macvlan: Support for high multicast packet rate")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
 drivers/net/macvlan.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index c40fa331836b..d4cede6393b0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #define MACVLAN_HASH_BITS	8
 #define MACVLAN_HASH_SIZE	(1<<MACVLAN_HASH_BITS)
 #define MACVLAN_DEFAULT_BC_QUEUE_LEN	1000
+#define MACVLAN_MAX_BC_QUEUE_LEN	4096
 
 #define MACVLAN_F_PASSTHRU	1
 #define MACVLAN_F_ADDRCHANGE	2
@@ -1755,7 +1756,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy macvlan_policy[IFLA_MACVLAN_MAX + 1] = {
 	[IFLA_MACVLAN_MACADDR] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = MAX_ADDR_LEN },
 	[IFLA_MACVLAN_MACADDR_DATA] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
 	[IFLA_MACVLAN_MACADDR_COUNT] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
-	[IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+	[IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN] = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U32, MACVLAN_MAX_BC_QUEUE_LEN),
 	[IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN_USED] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
 	[IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF] = { .type = NLA_S32 },
 };
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-06 21:26 UTC|newest]

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2026-07-06 21:25 Xiang Mei (Microsoft) [this message]
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2026-07-06 22:34   ` [PATCH net] macvlan: cap IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN to bound broadcast backlog Xiang Mei
2026-07-06 23:25     ` Thomas Karlsson

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