From: Alice Mikityanska <alice.kernel@fastmail.im>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>,
syzbot+ce13c07d96d04716eaa2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v4 1/4] net: ipv4: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:02:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825200215.90326-2-alice.kernel@fastmail.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260825200215.90326-1-alice.kernel@fastmail.im>
From: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
This commit bounds cork->base.fragsize to IP_MAX_MTU to avoid a
possible overflow of UDP length that triggers a WARN in
udp_set_len_short when setsockopt IP_MTU_DISCOVER is set to
IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, and a large packet is sent over a netdev with an
unusually large MTU.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Set device MTU bigger than IP_MAX_MTU + 20. cork->base.fragsize will
be set to that MTU in ip_setup_cork.
2. Set IP_MTU_DISCOVER to IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE. It lets maxnonfragsize be
set to device MTU (cork->fragsize) in __ip_append_data, rather than
to IP_MAX_MTU.
3. Send 65528 bytes of payload (+8 bytes of UDP header, +20 bytes of
IPv4 header). Device MTU allows it (it's only one byte bigger than
IP_MAX_MTU + IPv4 header, and the device MTU is bigger than that).
4. The UDP length in the built packet is 65536, which overflows the
16-bit length field and triggers the WARN in udp_set_len_short.
Note: IP_PMTUDISC_DO with IPv4 is safe, because ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward
always clamps at IP_MAX_MTU, unlike ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward.
The Fixes tag points at the first commit where I could reproduce the
overflow with IPv4 and IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE.
Fixes: daba287b299e ("ipv4: fix DO and PROBE pmtu mode regarding local fragmentation with UFO/CORK")
Reported-by: syzbot+ce13c07d96d04716eaa2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a6a966c.86abc875.e5c3d.0054.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4.6
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 74e095b6b7ca..a24cc8ee11d3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -1303,6 +1303,7 @@ static int ip_setup_cork(struct sock *sk, struct inet_cork *cork,
cork->fragsize = ip_sk_use_pmtu(sk) ?
dst4_mtu(&rt->dst) : READ_ONCE(rt->dst.dev->mtu);
+ cork->fragsize = min(cork->fragsize, IP_MAX_MTU);
if (!inetdev_valid_mtu(cork->fragsize))
return -ENETUNREACH;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-25 20:02 [PATCH net v4 0/4] Fix UDP length overflow in edge cases Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-25 20:02 ` Alice Mikityanska [this message]
2026-08-25 20:02 ` [PATCH net v4 2/4] net: ipv6: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-25 20:02 ` [PATCH net v4 3/4] selftests: net: Test " Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-26 17:18 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-08-27 19:28 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-25 20:02 ` [PATCH net v4 4/4] net: ipv6: Clamp to IP6_MAX_MTU in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward Alice Mikityanska
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