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* [PATCH v3 net] vlan: fix skb_under_panic and races when toggling HW VLAN offload
@ 2026-08-11  8:52 Eric Dumazet
  2026-08-13  8:49 ` Paolo Abeni
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2026-08-11  8:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S . Miller, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni
  Cc: Simon Horman, netdev, eric.dumazet, Eric Dumazet, Tangxin Xie,
	stable

Toggling hardware VLAN TX offload (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX or
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_TX) on a lower device invokes vlan_transfer_features(),
which dynamically changed vlandev->hard_header_len.

This causes two issues:
1. Lockless TX paths (e.g. packet_snd in af_packet.c, ip6_finish_output2)
   read dev->hard_header_len without holding RTNL lock. Mutating
   hard_header_len dynamically under RTNL creates a data race where upper
   layers reserve insufficient headroom based on a stale hard_header_len,
   resulting in skb_under_panic when vlan_dev_hard_header() is called.
2. In addition, vlan_transfer_features() updated hard_header_len without
   updating header_ops, causing a mismatch between allocated headroom
   and header creation.

Always setting dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len and
dev->needed_headroom = real_dev->needed_headroom + VLAN_HLEN unconditionally
ensures:
- dev->hard_header_len remains 100% static and immutable at real_dev->hard_header_len,
  eliminating all dynamic runtime updates and data races on hard_header_len.
- Upper layers allocating skbs via LL_RESERVED_SPACE() will always reserve
  sufficient headroom for software VLAN tag insertion (real_dev->hard_header_len +
  real_dev->needed_headroom + VLAN_HLEN).
- vlandev inherits real_dev->needed_tailroom so underlying trailer/padding/ICV
  requirements are honored.
- AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW network header offsets remain correctly aligned at
  real_dev->hard_header_len.
- vlan_header_ops is used unconditionally.

Note to stable teams: Make sure to backport these commits:

e16e960d55a4 ("ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev")
cef51860becd ("macvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev")

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Tangxin Xie <xietangxin@h-partners.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/99d678ae-c7b2-4b44-b534-b8320679deb3@h-partners.com/
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19: e16e960d55a4: ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19: cef51860becd: macvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
v3: propagate needed_tailroom, add stable tags.
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260724035419.1473174-1-edumazet@google.com/

 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 39 +++++++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
index ec2569b3f8dac629027b4344bc89402decf026d1..2859cbac3f266b7c4e3f44f41280d33ab69c5270 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
@@ -502,26 +502,6 @@ static const struct header_ops vlan_header_ops = {
 	.parse_protocol = vlan_parse_protocol,
 };
 
-static int vlan_passthru_hard_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
-				     unsigned short type,
-				     const void *daddr, const void *saddr,
-				     unsigned int len)
-{
-	struct vlan_dev_priv *vlan = vlan_dev_priv(dev);
-	struct net_device *real_dev = vlan->real_dev;
-
-	if (saddr == NULL)
-		saddr = dev->dev_addr;
-
-	return dev_hard_header(skb, real_dev, type, daddr, saddr, len);
-}
-
-static const struct header_ops vlan_passthru_header_ops = {
-	.create	 = vlan_passthru_hard_header,
-	.parse	 = eth_header_parse,
-	.parse_protocol = vlan_parse_protocol,
-};
-
 static const struct device_type vlan_type = {
 	.name	= "vlan",
 };
@@ -580,14 +560,10 @@ static int vlan_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->fcoe_ddp_xid = real_dev->fcoe_ddp_xid;
 #endif
 
-	dev->needed_headroom = real_dev->needed_headroom;
-	if (vlan_hw_offload_capable(real_dev->features, vlan->vlan_proto)) {
-		dev->header_ops      = &vlan_passthru_header_ops;
-		dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len;
-	} else {
-		dev->header_ops      = &vlan_header_ops;
-		dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN;
-	}
+	dev->needed_headroom = real_dev->needed_headroom + VLAN_HLEN;
+	dev->needed_tailroom = real_dev->needed_tailroom;
+	dev->header_ops      = &vlan_header_ops;
+	dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len;
 
 	dev->netdev_ops = &vlan_netdev_ops;
 
@@ -1029,10 +1005,9 @@ static void vlan_transfer_features(struct net_device *dev,
 
 	netif_inherit_tso_max(vlandev, dev);
 
-	if (vlan_hw_offload_capable(dev->features, vlan->vlan_proto))
-		vlandev->hard_header_len = dev->hard_header_len;
-	else
-		vlandev->hard_header_len = dev->hard_header_len + VLAN_HLEN;
+	vlandev->needed_headroom = dev->needed_headroom + VLAN_HLEN;
+	vlandev->needed_tailroom = dev->needed_tailroom;
+	vlandev->hard_header_len = dev->hard_header_len;
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FCOE)
 	vlandev->fcoe_ddp_xid = dev->fcoe_ddp_xid;
-- 
2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog


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