From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on bad arguments to pskb_expand_head()
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:36:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007-b4-skbuff-bug-on-v2-1-b9a5f732895b@toxicpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007-b4-skbuff-bug-on-v2-0-b9a5f732895b@toxicpanda.com>
pskb_expand_head() BUG()s if it is handed a negative nhead or a shared
skb. Both are bugs in the caller, and both keep getting hit: commit
2cbb259ec4f8 ("bpf: Reject negative head_room in __bpf_skb_change_head")
and commit 64e6a754d33d ("llc: do not use skb_get() before
dev_queue_xmit()") each fixed a crash here that took down the whole box.
The function already returns an error that every caller has to handle,
and at this point it hasn't touched the skb. Return -EINVAL instead of
crashing. The warning is DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(), so debug kernels
still point at the caller, while production kernels, including ones
running with panic_on_warn, just fail the call.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 43ebe61c7fc4..d226fe77d484 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -2303,9 +2303,15 @@ int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhead, int ntail,
u8 *data;
int i;
- BUG_ON(nhead < 0);
+ if (unlikely(nhead < 0)) {
+ DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
- BUG_ON(skb_shared(skb));
+ if (unlikely(skb_shared(skb))) {
+ DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed(skb);
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 17:35 [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] net: skbuff: replace most BUG_ON()s with error returns Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on a bad frag_list layout in skb_segment() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() when skb_copy_bits() fails in copy helpers Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on leftover length in skb_checksum() and friends Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on a bad csum_start in skb_copy_and_csum_dev() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on leftover length in skb_copy_and_csum_bits() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/8] net: skbuff: don't BUG() on a missing head_frag in skb_zerocopy() Josef Bacik
2026-10-07 17:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: skbuff: remove the BUG_ON()s from skb_shift() Josef Bacik
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